12-30-2018, 04:15 AM
(12-29-2018, 02:10 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Has anyone thought about whether financial institutions (banks that offer credit cards) have a right to control purchases of objects, to wit firearms) that purchasers will never pay for because they will be arrested or killed for using in illegal ways ... and whose use can kill people and end the ability of credit-card users to pay back their credit-card charges?How do you sort out the mass murderer who kept their mouth shut or lied about their use of their purchase to a store clerk who passed a legal background check from the hunter who wants to use an AR-15 or some other assault rifle for hunting, the law abiding citizen who has a legal right to own an AR-15 to have or possibly use for self defense or the gun enthusiasts who think they're cool looking and fun to use target shooting who also passed their legal back ground checks and so forth. Do you want it to be a right to assume that your crazy and have you placed in an insane asylum for the rest of your life based purely on an assumption? Dude, pull your head out of some blue activists ass for once and think for yourself. Dude, you could be looking at the barrel of a sawed off shotgun, pistol or rifle of some burglar, hardened criminal or mass murderer at anytime or anyplace these days. You don't have to be a criminal for a criminal to point a gun at you. Criminals point guns at law abiding citizens and members of law enforcement all the time.
I am not much of a friend of banks, but I would be on their side on that matter. I would be willing to have an embargo upon firearms purchases except for legitimate purposes of sport or for the obvious necessity of self-defense (Bear Country, and I do not mean fans of the Chicago Bears; any place with much drug activity).