Convicted criminals, especially those convicted of crimes involving a gun should be prohibited from having a gun and why not reward law abiding citizens for turning them in. This will not catch on as liberals will not target criminals, they prefer to pamper them and send them back to the street through the revolving doors of justice to allow them to re-offend and make general laws which instead clamp down on all so that government can control the population. The liberals know that they cannot control the criminal so they use such people to claim,- we need gun control, just look at this incident.
I think snitch lines are a bad idea. It sounds like a good idea in this case but before long there will be snitch lines and small rewards for everything. This will only help Big Bother spy on us, now your neighbours will get paid to peek through windows. In communist countries they have snitch lines for everything so I'm sure the liberals will catch on. Some day a neighbour will report Me for being a christian...
This kind of reminds me of the guy who was arrested in South Carolina last year. His phone lines had been tapped because they picked up key words often used. The one word that raised flags was the word "bomb".. The guy was arrested only to find out he was a mortician and the word he often used was "embalm".. He was released of course, but he still has a record for future use.
I have a hard time trusting anything the government does these days. There is always a catrch, or the story not told..
I can understand concern and a bit of hesitation is excepting a program like this which is why I wanted other opinions.
One thing though, bounty rewards is nothing new. Having friends in the bail bond business I've done quite a bit of bail recovery myself. But then in those cases the bounty is posed by a private citizen (the bondsman who posted bail), not a governement agency.
But I guess in the long run, I support any program that actually targets criminals. I do, however, find it sad that they have to pay money to get people to report a crime (a convicted felon owning a handgun is a crime).
