Posted on 02/20/2018 7:40:39 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
What if the finance industry — credit card companies like Visa, Mastercard and American Express; credit card processors like First Data; and banks like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo — were to effectively set new rules for the sales of guns in America?
Collectively, they have more leverage over the gun industry than any lawmaker. And it wouldn’t be hard for them to take a stand.
PayPal, Square, Stripe and Apple Pay announced years ago that they would not allow their services to be used for the sale of firearms.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This guy seems to think that guns are “disposable”...buy one, use it up, and then - for the next crime - go and buy another one.
He forgets about the millions of guns already embedded in America. They all still work, and we don’t need any “bank” to use them, if we so desire.
And, there’s the criminal element, who seldom walk into a store and buy a gun, or finance it through a bank...in fact, to most criminals the worst thing you can do is to acquire a “traceable” gun, if you plan to use it in a crime.
The journalists - the most liberal of us all - live in some sort of make-believe world of marshmallow unicorns and left-brain OCD. They think their little suggestions, lists, “studies”, investigations, etc., are going to be the end-all, solve-all for the shooting problem.
Banks are not in the business to regulate our morality, or to police the mentally-ill. Paypal, and the other things he listed, are liberal cabals demonstrating “symbolism over substance” rather than a genuine desire to help the situation. “Helping” the situation would be readily financing guns for law-abiding people for protection.
What’s to stop me from plunking down cash for my next firearm?
Democrats have done this crap before. How about the banks not allow credit card purchases for materials to make signs? Or box lunches or movie tickets or bus rentals?
Come and get me coppers!!!!!
If my credit card or bank starts limiting legitimate purchases, I would drop it/them before the next statement arrives.
As long as a merchant/product is legal/legitimate, it is none of their business what/when/where I purchase an item.
>>The “mark” is clearly visible on either the forehead, or the right forearm of every islamic jihadist.
Do you have a picture?
Got a box of .308 bananas. $1200.
I just wish NYT good luck in their Don Quixote quest for further irrelevance.
Aren’t they funny now... as if a credit card cash advance couldn’t be drawn to make that purchase.
That’s exactly why there is such a big push from governments and corporations to eliminate cash.
Or a gift card at Bass Pro, WalMart, etc.
Keep this in mind whenever someone proposes a cashless society.
P-L-E-A-S-E. Bring it on.
I, for one, would LOVE to see a return to cash, barter a/o trade.
Leftists are all so ‘smart’: Least for CC, there’s the ‘paper trail’ if they wanted to go that route.
Imagine the ‘Maker’ gatherings in any neighborhood garage!? “Bring you block of XYZ and we’ll have a milling party! Come learn something new and teach others the skills.”
This would do wonders for bitcoin adoption rate.
Liberals are right about that. I can’t believe in 2018, there are some conservatives who still don’t get that corporations are run by people and that those people’s political beliefs will trump profit. Hollywood is proof of that. They could have made far more money selling family friendly and Christian themed movies, but they choose low profit, degenerate garbage instead.
And we have a winner!!! EXACTLY!!!!!
The author seems to forget that any such concerted action by the banks would find both Federal and state regulators in places like Texas all over them like white on rice.
So according to this virtue signaling twit it’s perfectly fine for a business to discriminate against law abiding and constitutionally protected gun owners, but I bet anything that he thinks that bakers must be forced to make same sex wedding cakes.
Virtue signaling proved a disaster for the NFL this last season, and it is clobbering the Winter Olympics ratings (along with lousy U.S. performance). The boards of directors and senior executives of the money center banks presumably realize that taking action against firearms purchases will cause a loss of customers. There are many community and regional banks that will happily take business away from the money center banks, especially in mid America and the South.
How very totalitarian of Mr. Sorkin. It’s a slippery slope, one that leftists fail to acknowledge ALWAYS leads to misery and suffering.
Our failure to ensure a common understanding of what makes America great and maintaining a culture of valuing our freedoms, accomplishments, and desire to fight to keep it that way... is our greatest existential threat.
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