Man faces jail for handing in a gun.

[Sonicron]

You know, if (after serving his sentence) the guy were to get his hands on another shotgun and use it to mow down the entire fucking precinct that arrested him for doing something good, I don't think I'd lose a minute of sleep.

 

[T-Bone24]

If he knew it was illegal, he should have called the police and let them come pick it up themselves. From the sounds of this, however, he had no idea, and thought he was doing something good. The law should be enforced all the time, or else people will take advantage of it, but I feel bad for this poor chap, he obviously got the hardass judge.

It probably doesn't happen often, but if I found a bunch of drugs and walked into the police station with it, I would probably be arrested, no matter my intention, but isn't intent supposed to play a big part in criminal charges?

That's not it, but he phoned ahead to the police station announcing his intention, and they (seemingly) made no attempt to say "No".

 

[rees263]

I am..completely speechless. I wanted to say something relatively snide about the UK law systems, but I can't create even a remotely coherent sentence.

[HEADING=3]Fuck. This. Bullshit.[/HEADING]

The jury should be ashamed, the judge should be fired and the police officer reprimanded for abuse of his power.

This is why I am convinced that the entire country should be purged clean of any and all existing law and order and rebuilt from scratch by people with more half a brain cell between the lot of them.

Fuck, I'm angry now. >:[

Funny you should say that - I'm thinking of standing for parliament so I can create my "common sense committee". Here's the proposal: It would be the highest legal authority in the country. I would chair it and anyone who shows common sense can join. Then when there's a ridiculous case like this we could say "That's stupid" and all charges would be dropped.

I'm only half joking...

EDIT: As if this wasn't stupid enough: Not sure if it was the same guy or not, but there was something on the news about a guy who found a gun (in the UK) and rang up the police and asked for someone to come and pick it up, they said that they couldn't get someone over quickly and that he should walk 2 miles through London with it to hand it in himself! Double standards much?

 

[Nuke_em_05]

Funny how the U.S. is always ridiculed for a horrible legal system.

It reminds me of a case we had here in Spokane. A Loomis (armored transport company) driver got out of his truck to stop a bank robbery/murder. The corporate policy was, reasonably, that you do not get out of the truck for any reason as it could just be a ruse to get you out of the truck and their friend hidden behind the door kills you, takes the keys and robs the truck. The driver stopped the robbery and potential murders. He was fired under the policy, and filed suit. The courts ruled in favor of the employee (against the policy), because they determined that someone should not have to weigh retaliation from an employer or the law against doing the right thing.

 

[Gruthar]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The funniest part is how all the British retards on this forum make fun of gun laws in the USA. It makes me tingly inside.

I was thinking the same thing, only with more PC wording...

 

[feather240]

I once handed in a gun many years ago. It was in a bush that me and a friend were playing adventures or whatever 10 year olds do at that age. I told my dad, he came down, picked it up in a plastic bad and we got in the paper for being the good guys. Now that story above.. thats bull.

Oh for fuck sake, you mean there were cases where what SHOULD have happened to someone doing the right thing in a case like this DID happen?

This makes this story even worse.

I assume that being a kid must have helped a lot. If you're under the legal age than you're incapable of the simplest tasks, correct?

Well from what I've heard about American jail than British jail must be a freaking fun fair, but with British accents.

 

[sms_117b]

I want to know how the prosecution lawyer can live with himself for this injustice.

 

[firedfns13]

And I'm proud to be an American...

Yeah, it's actually better to have to talk to 9 agencies about turning in a rocket launcher than thrown in jail for doing so.

I can't wait for the day I find a rocket launcher laying around!

Move to Texas. Although the one he found had been fired previously and discarded.

 

[Maze1125]

You're all acting like this case is already over, it isn't.
There's no way he's going to be convicted.

 

[shadow741]

only reason why he should be locked up is if the police told him that and then he got very angry about his countries legal system and whacked one of the police in the face. If not, then no, he shouldnt be in jail

 

[feather240]

I want to know how the prosecution lawyer can live with himself for this injustice.

Pffft, lawyers don't have souls stupid.

 

[JWAN]

That's totally retarded. And yes retarded is the proper term for this.
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I have a question, can you get a permit if you live in England to keep a firearm? Or are they totally blacklisted? Can you hunt still?

 

[Tharwen]

Britain: No sunlight, no decent food, no justice... My heart goes out to all you people living in that sorrowful place.

But you know what we do have? An overzealous and misplaced sense of national pride! So stop slagging off my glorious nation and join your racially inferior comrades in doing... unimportant stuff...

 

[maddawg IAJI]

A victim of circumstance if anything. I said it once in a diffrent thread and it applies here as well. Somtimes, the system just sucks.

 

[Kollega]

He found a gun on a sidewalk. He called and said he wants to hand it in. He handed it in. And he got arrested for that.

[HEADING=1]BULL-FUCKING-SHIT![/HEADING]

Poor Britain. You guys don't have anything to brag about besides your glorious past.

 

[JWAN]

Another note, theis guy stabbed a cop and was getting ready to finish her off when another cop shot the guy who was in "progress".

guess what happened:

they fired the cop. and then they fired the stabbed cop for standing up for the other one. (welcome to the most insulated city in the Midwest, Madison Wisconsin.)

Then the family claimed the stabber guy had a mental retardation (duh he was trying to kill a cop) then sued the city for 8 million dollars.

I think our legal system also needs some tweaking

 

[PsiMatrix]

And I'm proud to be an American...

Yeah, it's actually better to have to talk to 9 agencies about turning in a rocket launcher than thrown in jail for doing so.

Oh yeah, forgot about that one. And there was me going to bring up the more recent 'kid at a gunshow'.

 

[T-Bone24]

I have a question, can you get a permit if you live in England to keep a firearm? Or are they totally blacklisted? Can you hunt still?

I'm fairly certain you may be able to get a license, but it's very difficult to obtain.