Posted on 12/25/2018 9:44:51 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: New York Times Wants To Have Credit Card Companies Monitor Sales Of Guns And Ammo. What Could Ever Go Wrong?
The New York Times ran an article today that opens a new front in the progressive dream of restricting and eventually banning gun ownership. The story is headlined How Banks Unwittingly Finance Mass Shootings:
A New York Times examination of mass shootings since the Virginia Tech attack in 2007 reveals how credit cards have become a crucial part of the planning of these massacres. There have been 13 shootings that killed 10 or more people in the last decade, and in at least eight of them, the killers financed their attacks using credit cards. Some used credit to acquire firearms they could not otherwise have afforded.
Those eight shootings killed 217 people. The investigations undertaken in their aftermath uncovered a rich trove of information about the killers’ spending. There were plenty of red flags, if only someone were able to look for them, law enforcement experts say.
“Banks will complain this is the government’s job and it’s not our job, but you know what? They are the only ones with the ability to do this,” said Kevin Sullivan, a former New York Police fraud investigator who consults with banks as president of the Anti-Money Laundering Training Academy.
The article hints that credit card companies should be forced to monitor the purchases of every card owner and act to prevent purchases that appear to a computer to look suspicious.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
And it will be one small step from monitoring purchases to forbidding the purchase of firearms and ammunition with credit cards. These people’s goal is to first make it difficult and then make it impossible.
And keys ban credit card purchases of cats from people who drive drunk, and hardware store purchases of people who assault others with hammers, and grocery store items purchased with credit cards from people who smoke.
It’s crazy what’s happening to this country.
They already track every can of green beans we charge on our cards. It wouldn’t matter if we paid in cash because there’s the camera surveillance and the paperwork and the checked ID.
Credit card companies should be forced to monitor NYT subscription purchases so the purchasers can be scrutinized for mental health issues and if need be, have the subscriptions revoked, you know, for the good of the children ...
maybe we should monitor who buys the NY Times...for potential sedition, aiding the enemy charges
after all, if the NY Times wants to destroy our Constitutional Second Amendment rights, then it can just as well be dead for the NY Times’ First Amendment rights, too
And keys ban credit card purchases of cats from people who drive drunk.
So, are the cats driving drunk, or what?
New York Times: A huge cancerous tumor helping to destroy this Republic.
One should reasonably understand this to be a Deep State directive coming through their (media) organ.
can they ban purchases to something that is legal to buy? Seems like there should be a lawsuit if they try to do that
Probably already do.
If they are suggesting this with Trump in office, hold onto your hats when he leaves. We’re in a fight and we aren’t fighting.
The NYT is there for you when you need fishwrap or bird-cage liner.
Cats shouldn’t drive. Remember what always happened to Toonces!
New York Times sounds like PRAVDA WEST!
I always pay cash for guns and ammo. And range time.
I purchased all my guns and ammo within weeks of Obama’s Election....and I paid cash.
Some of us knew what and who Obama was way before he was elected.
Those folks in New York should step off of the end of the world (only a few states away) and land in America to get out once in a while. It’s not all that scary out here, even with most people owning firearms.
Hmmm. But then on second thought, maybe they should stay. :-(
Yeah, that’s it. We’re all inbred, misshapen, crazy and looking for victims from the big city. Mwuhahahahahaha!
They don’t enforce the current background check laws. This is just one more ineffective law.
Since the fake news networks are doing such damage to the country, I propose that banks monitor purchases of ink and paper.
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