Letters: Gun licences should be similar to car licences

Guns handed over by the public at the Police gun buyback event in Christchurch. Photo / File

Bill Whitlock (Letters, November 2) is quite right.

Gun licences should be similar to car licences. You need a drivers licence to buy a car from a dealer.

The car is then registered and can be traced by its number plate.

Should you dispose of it, change of ownership is needed. Regular warrants of fitness and registration and for a selection of the community renewal of the driver's licence, all at the owner's expense, are mandatory.

The saying "locks only deter honest people" is often quoted.

If there is a law, those who break it can then be prosecuted. If there is no law, we have anarchy.

(Abridged)

Marie Booth
Rotorua

Captain Cook talk fascinating

Regarding the U3A Forum on October 16, a huge thank you to Melvyn (Mel) Bowen – master mariner and maritime historian – for his most enlightening talk on Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand.

Interspersed with anecdotes, Bowen had a large captive audience of members, and visitors, as he navigated Cook's journey around New Zealand with his pointer.

It was fascinating to learn a bit more about Cook's voyage.

(Abridged)

Pauleen Wilkinson
Rotorua

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