PERILS IN OUR MIDST.

Evening Post, Volume XX, Issue 265, 12 November 1880, Page 3

PERILS IN OUR MIDST.

TO THE EDITOR OF THK XVININa POST. Sib, — Your leading artaole of this evening's issue contains two questions of great importance ; and yet another, I think, of equal importance requires investigation. I allude to the case of the Volunteer whose rifle ~mu discharged of its contents in the shop of Mrs. Liihning, fortunately without any dangerous result. -,-. In the first place, what business had the volunteer parading our streets with a loaded rifle P Secondly, if ho was a Ware of the faot of its being loaded, it waa nothing more than reckless carelessness that thfe affair should have occurred. ' , ' ; i Some Chock should be put upon the quantity of ammunition used* so that .what remains should be duly returned, and this striotly enforced by the authorities ; other* t wise we at any time may be walking behind tho muzzle of a loaded rifle upon the shoulder of some careless volunteer and receive its contents, thus receiving a serious injury for ¦ life, if not fatal. The outrageous oonduot and simple foolhardiness of a few of our volunteers discharging their rifles at randon, upon the retnrn journey from the review, is another instanoe of the necessity of some kind of system being adopted*/I am, &c, H. J. White. 11th Novombor.