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UK Police To Allow Gun Users To Renew Licenses With iPhone App
Sussex police are creating a number of iPhone apps for the public, including one to renew your gun license. Unsurprisingly, the plan has some anti-gun groups upset. Lyn Costello, of Mothers Against Murder and Aggression (MAMAA), said, "This isn't suitable, especially in light of what happened in Cumbria. We've got to be extra careful giving gun licenses. We have this attitude that gun murders don't happen very often so it's OK to be lax, but it is not OK and we've got to do everything in our power to stop it happening again. We can't put money before life and if you start to do that we are losing our humanity. It is a really stupid idea.''
Insane cab drivers kill people. He just chose to use guns. As witnessed by recent mass killings in China, he could have easily used a knife. Sadly people in England are (A) disarmed and (B) pacified to the point where they expect the government to save them, so even a knife wielding crazy would have racked up a body count.
Anti gun groups beat the same drum over and over and over and over again. No logic, just fear, fear, and more fear.
Quoted for irony. And I'd take facing someone with a knife over a gun any day.
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Murder and aggression are part of humanity. Being against is like saying you think anuses should be removed because they stink. You can remove the guns, people will still commit murder and aggression (though I would argue that murder is 99% of the time "successful" aggression as in taken to its fullest extent.) with whatever they have on hand. In olden days, we used bones, rocks, then spears and arrows and knives. Absent any sufficiently effective object, a few hours of martial arts training is all that is needed to end a life. Though this does bring in a greater risk to the attacker, and does discourage a lot of violence, but aggression is ever present.
The majority of violence that happens is because of conflict, and you can never eliminate that.
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Don't be stupid, liberal.
If you shoot someone in public, there better be some evidence or witnesses that corroborates your story. Plus, if the county attorney thinks you're lying, and there's any evidence against you, you'll face a jury trial; you'll have to do more than convince a judge.
If it's inside your home, however, that's another matter. You're pretty much assumed to be in the right.
Are you one of those people who think property crimes by minorities are "legitimate redistributive economic justice"?