Vincent Ferrari
04-06-2009, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?newsid=25581&pagtype=allchandate' target='_blank'>http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itun...ype=allchandate</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Reports in Associated Newspapers owned newspapers claim a series of iPhone and iPod touch apps help glamorise gun culture, particularly among young people. Led by London's Evening Standard, the sale of such apps has caused "outrage among anti-gun campaigners," claims the reports. Claudia Webbe, the chair of an independent advisory group for the Metropolitan Police's Operation Trident gun-crime force, told the Evening Standard: "This is hugely irresponsible in a climate when we are trying to get guns off the streets. "I am stunned this game should ever have been allowed to have been made. We have spent years trying to get imitation guns out of shops and this sort of product undermines that effort.""</em></p><p><img height="283" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1239019546.usr18053.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" width="422" /></p><p>Does this dope even realize that this is, essentially, a picture of a gun with sound effects? I guess MADD will have to take issue with all the iBeer-style apps out there now, also. People, it's a phone. Really. That's all it is. No one ever died from a phoneshot to the face; at least that I'm aware of.</p><p> </p>