Posted on 01/18/2019 10:13:02 AM PST by rktman
Just before Christmas, The New York Times ran an article titled "How Credit Cards Are Used to Finance Mass Shootings." This followed an op-ed the NYT ran last spring calling for credit card companies to track and block some gun sales, such as stopping someone from buying a certain number of guns or from purchasing politically incorrect types of firearms.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I sent American Express packing over this crap!!!
One reason of many that we do not want a cashless society.
I live in hurricane land and it is very important to get working cash before it hits.
“Lennon and others in the far right are utterly reliant on social media and crowdfunding platforms to keep their coffers plump,” it said.
In November, PayPal announced it would no longer process payments for Mr Robinson, saying he had broken its policy on acceptable use."
The left is implementing their plan to cut off 'right-wing extremists'.
Write them and tell them you won’t do business with companies who undermine the Bill of Rights.
Been there done that. Cash is king when the power goes out.
Cash is best for transactions such as that. BOOM!
Yep. My purchases are private sales transacted in cash. I don’t even use a CC when buying ammo, targets and such at Wal-Mart.
The NRA should be organizing it’s millions of voters to boycott any credit card that does this crap- this would send a powerful message and be large enough to affect these companies financially-
About a month after the NYT op-ed, The Wall Street Journal reported that banks and credit card companies had begun “discussing” how they could pull off this idea from the left.
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If the credit card companies are *that* stupid to attempt to control and limit transactions, then they assume legal liability for anything evil done with any purchase thru their system. Consider, for example, a drunk who pays his bar tab with a credit card, then gets in his car and kills someone driving drunk. Why did the credit company allow an individual such a large single purchase at a bar?
Lawyers will have fun. Credit card company pockets are deep and no one likes them. The companies would never risk a jury trial.
Well deals from legitimate sports sites you need a CC to buy them plus accessories.
So, I got an extra $5.00 if you want to get in on the ground floor of opening “THE 2ND AMENDMENT BANK OF AMERICA”. Where is the conservative, second amendment supporting gazillionaire anyway?
One should only ever pay cash for gun related purchases. Cash leaves no transaction trail back to you to be abused by the gun grabbers.
that would be an excellent solution- and it woudl send shivers down the spines of credit card companies that know they are goign to lose millions for opposing the second amendment
Uh huh. "It isn't fascism when we do it." Keep it up, Andy.
Millions of customers private and business comprising more than likely several billion dollars. If I was younger and more savvy in that realm, ya never know what could have happened.
The "mainstream" media is almost exclusively Leftist at this point, so as long as their ox isn't being gored, they don't care what is happening to their political enemies. They think it will never happen to them, and they might be right.
I sent Bank of America packing over this crap.
This is a great reason why we must keep cash in our society. Pay cash for everything, folks.
JoMa
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