Though Houston has long prided itself on its Texas hospitality, another Texas traditiongun-totinghas given the city a different kind of reputation in the past two years. With 109 murders last year, Houston (1956 pop. 760,000) had the fourth highest total of criminal homicides of any U.S. city; in 1957, with 93 murders to date, pistol-packing Houston is expected to set a new high score for gore.
One of the main reasons for Houston's murderous pace, as a grand jury recently pointed out, is that "to acquire a pistol is such a simple matter that mere quarrels often become killings." For shooting a...
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