The Goat Pen

No it wouldn't.

Depends on how good the band is. Crappy bands rarely have great names, and if Grohl and Cobain weren't geniuses, Nirvana would be a stupid name.

How about 'Flaming Clown Vomit' for a Norwegian death metal band?

Nearly a year before signing the nation's most stringent gun control measure into law, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a hotline that allows state residents to report illegal gun owners in exchange for a $500 reward.

The measure is part of a four-pronged approach established by the governor's office to reduce gun violence in urban communities, according to CBS6Albany.com.

New Yorkers can call the "Gun Tip Line" if they believe someone they know has an illegal gun. Hotline calls are answered by state police and tips are referred to local law enforcement, the station reported.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03 ... z2OCCpj13n

Jesus.

New Yorkers must really like being told what they can't have.

Illegal guns? Meth labs in our kitchens? The ability to dump chemicals in the Gowanus?

The 'turn-your-neighbor-or-relative-in-if-he-hasn't-registered-his-gun' scheme has a certain historical familiarity to it.

Mind you, I did not read the link, so I don't know what the consequences are if it's a matter of not having your guns registered. If it's an unregistered gun that results in a fine and required proof of reg in 90s days I'm not going to complain. If it's an illegal gun with bodies on it that results in a murder rap on an individual (or, at least, a receiving stolen property charge), yeah, I'm not going to complain.

It's hard for me to complain about a hotline asking for tips on illegall behavior (whether that is guns, meth labs or dumping). If I ever have any complaints, it will be on the underlying law. It just so happens I don't see any real reason to oppose a gun registration law.

I dont get the point of it. Can they just come after you based on a tip? What's stopping people from reporting this through normal channels rather than a hotline?

$500

what a shock, homeland security refuses to answers questions from congress on their 1.6b ammunition buy that has contributed to an ammo shortage nationwide

I am not a fan of using tax dollars to pay people to inform on people for what is a registration issue. Besides, how will it play out? Someone calls the hotline on me. Police come to my house:

"Hey, we had a tip you have guns."

"No guns in here, officer."

"Mind if we look?"

"Yeah, I do mind."

What then? Will the police push me aside on a BS probable cause claim? Will they get a friggin' warrant? Will they just shrug and walk away? Also, where will this end? It I have an axe to grind, I could cause them some grief if we have enough 'hotlines'.

We could have a pot hotline, an absinthe hotline, a haggis hotline (illegal in the US), etc, etc, etc...

Just keep em in your trunk. Ask BOJ.

I have not now, nor will I ever, keep haggis in my trunk.

You won't keep haggis in your ass, what??

In the same vein as Maxine Waters claiming 170 million jobs will be lost because of sequestration, ol' charlie Rangel is saying that millions of kids are killed from assault weapons...

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/53940

AlabamAlum wrote:I am not a fan of using tax dollars to pay people to inform on people for what is a registration issue. Besides, how will it play out? Someone calls the hotline on me. Police come to my house:

"Hey, we had a tip you have guns."

"No guns in here, officer."

"Mind if we look?"

"Yeah, I do mind."

What then? Will the police push me aside on a BS probable cause claim? Will they get a friggin' warrant? Will they just shrug and walk away? Also, where will this end? It I have an axe to grind, I could cause them some grief if we have enough 'hotlines'.

We could have a pot hotline, an absinthe hotline, a haggis hotline (illegal in the US), etc, etc, etc...

My guess is most times it will result in car stops...or maybe a pointed Stop and Frisk. More often than not, nothing will come out of it...if anyone even calls. What it does do is boost the profile of Cuomo as he positions himself for a 2016 Presidential bid. Focusing in on how anything will be executed once a call is placed is ignoring the real reason this thing (and the associated press roll out) was done.

The thought that Cuomo is using this bad idea as a plank for an election bid just makes me hate it more.

LOL.

I'm calling the Jefferson County Sheriff's Dept on you right now...I wouldn't mind $500 for doing it, but I'm not sweating the cash.