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The 2nd Amendment only says the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. Tracking the types of firearms-related purchases is in no way an infringement (but then again, neither would the establishment of a federal database of firearms purchases and registrations, which does not currently exist due to the gun lobby’s misplaced fears that it would lead to federal gun confiscations).
This is absolutely an attempt to apply certain purchases associated political dissidence to criminality, and it will inevitably–if unchecked–get calibrated to a person’s credit rating. In other words, Chinese Social Credit.
NPCs, whose capacity for independent thought does not extend beyond what the legacy media tells him, think this will help curb crime in our lawless urban cesspools. It won’t, of course–most of those crimes are from illegally obtained firearms that will evade credit card purchases and background checks. The guns are either stolen or given to the criminals, to evade detection.
But then, the people pressuring Visa, Mastercard to track these purchases don’t REALLY care about violence in urban America. They live behind gates with hired security. If they cared about the criminality caused by illegally obtained firearms used in drug-running among criminal gangs, they would have done something about this long ago. Instead, these are the exact people being released after posting $500 bail. Our urban cesspools have been the centers of gun crime for the last 60 years. Still are.
No…this is about punishing political dissent: law-abiding citizens who purchase guns legally, who undergo gun safety courses, who take and pass the criminal background checks (because they have no criminal background), but might have attended an ultra MAGA rally that came into town.
The irony of it all: interest in handguns has skyrocketed in the last 3 years since a certain political party controlling 90% of big cities has decided to either overtly defund police or told them to stop policing “minor” offenses: like reckless driving in high pedestrian areas, shoplifting from Neiman Marcus, or randomly punching elderly people because the thugs don’t like their race. You know, little things like that. And the citizenry, less confident that the police will be protecting them, recognize that firearm ownership is the only true way to protect themselves.
More chasing remote symptoms while no effort is being made to solve the real problems with all the shootings. 99.999% of shootings are with hand guns, most of which are in the black community, most are in the 14-25 year age group, who don’t use credit cards. Maybe that 0.00001% that does use credit cards to pull off mentally Ill and emotionally I’ll shootings, might be caught if some fantasy network of communication between sales and law enforcement occurs. Which so far never has!
This credit card move is Another step at the gullible believing liberal leadership will help them while really taking them down a road of big brother control.
Maybe the hard core 2A people will think twice trying to add to their arsenal using a credit card. At least it is a reasonable step in the right direction.
But the other comment was right. We are just chasing the symptoms, but their diagnosis was wrong. The true problem is the country is drowning in guns. Every other country in the developed world has figured out that more guns leads to more gun violence but not the good old USA.
Thanks to great propaganda and great lobbying by an ever more profitable gun industry, I predict that we are getting to the point that soon, any gathering is going to result in shots fired and people will still be screaming that we need more guns.
Quote: The true problem is the country is drowning in guns.
Wrong, Dan M., but nice try. The true problem is that the country is drowning in a disrespect for life…and where do you think that came from?
Regarding the original topic: So purchasers will start paying with cash rather than using their credit cards. Big deal…but that will help the underground, cash-only economy grow. So this silly woke idea won’t solve any problems but will exacerbate others.