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UK Police To Allow Gun Users To Renew Licenses With iPhone App

Posted by samzenpus on from the there's-a-gun-for-that dept.

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.''

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  1. Mothers by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Am I the only one whose skepticism level is instantly raised when a politically lobbying organization includes the word "Mom" or "Mothers" in it's name?

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    1. Re:Mothers by russotto · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If the US we have MADD (mothers against drunk driving), so it's obvious what they are for: sober driving

      Err, no. MADD used to be for sober driving. Now they're for Prohibition.

    2. Re:Mothers by commodore64_love · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Well of course. That worked so great in the 1920s! :-| Can the moms in MADD really be so stupid as to repeat the same mistake?

      re: Gun Bans.

      I used a gun to defend myself two years ago. And in the mid-90s a guy grabbed my girlfriend by the throat, and I forced him to run away when I put my gun to the rear of his head.

      Anyway..... I'm curious how these events would be different without a gun for self-defense. In both cases I suspect the end result would be two dead victims. Is that really want anti-gun people want.

      I cannot comprehend it
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    3. Re:Mothers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Only while I masturbate.

  2. I'm confused... by Syberz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What exactly is the difference between a gun owner renewing his license online and a gun owner renewing his license in person?

    The guy already owns a gun, he's renewing his license, not applying for one for the first time.

    Convenience is the only difference between using the app versus the old way. This app does not make the streets less safe somehow.

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  3. MAMAA by jspenguin1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    MAMAA... just killed a man. Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead...

  4. Re:Guns don't kill people... by IndustrialComplex · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Quoted for irony. And I'd take facing someone with a knife over a gun any day.

    Oh hell no. I'd rather not.

    I've even been trained in ways to disarm a knife, and you know what? I don't trust myself to do that EVER. It's much easier to keep the barrel of a firearm pointed away from you in a scuffle than escaping from someone with a knife.

    I've been mugged before too, and a knife in your back is a hell of a lot scarier since the person is much more likely to use it if they get pissed off. Firearms draw attention.

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