GOP Splits As Banks Take On The Gun Industry
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 8 months ago
Major banks are cutting off business with the gun industry, roiling Republicans who want to respect the financial decisions of private institutions while still showing their unyielding support of the Second Amendment.
Some Republicans, enraged at moves by Citigroup and Bank of America to distance themselves from some retailers and gun manufacturers, have called on government agencies to cancel contracts with the banks and defer deregulation proposals that would benefit them. But other Republicans want to keep their hands off, saying lenders are free to decide who they do business with.
It’s a conundrum that puts the free-market principles at odds with gun rights, and Republicans across the board are genuinely split over how to react to moves by some of the biggest financial institutions in the country.
“I’m not writing a law that says you can’t do it — I just think it’s dumb and it’s dangerous waters,” Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) said. “I have a pretty high bar before I’m going to go in and tell the private sector what they should and shouldn’t be doing.”
Oh bullshit. You’ve written plenty of laws that trace the exchange of capital forcing people to utilize banks. You’ve written onerous taxation laws that require us to know where every penny goes, you’ve written laws that fund the federal reserve, and you’ve bailed out the banks to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Don’t come crying to me about the free market. That “high bar” you talked about wasn’t so high when you were trying to take the people’s money, so now when those very banks you’ve bailed out and made systemic to our financial system won’t work with firearms manufacturers, now you pull the “free market” card? Now you do?
What a putz. You’re a liar and a crapweasel.
On April 23, 2018 at 2:41 am, Greg Wilson said:
I suppose that our eschatology may be somewhat different, now is not the time to argue about that. Regardless, I think that this passage from Revelation is applicable. They intend to have absolute control over us and will starve us out if at all possible. Though they will have no problem with slaughtering us either . . .
“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” — Rev. 13:17
On April 23, 2018 at 7:11 am, VoorTrekker USA said:
Citi-cards did a number on me back in aught nine. I was deployed overseas and when I returned home they lied to me about it.
OPSEC so I had no 90 days out address, I paid off the card, they charged off the card and sent it to collections.
Trump takes office and it’s off of my credit report!
On April 23, 2018 at 7:46 am, Gryphon said:
These are the same (((banks))) that Financed the (((bolshevik))) revolution in Russia, and Murdered 60 (that’s SIXTY, not SIX) MILLION mostly Christians.
These are the same (((banks))) that Bribed the Congress and Blackmailed the President to establish (((their))) ‘federal reserve bank’ and Force the Citizens to use (((their))) scheissepapieren “Money”
Remember, (((they))) want to Totally Enslave You.
On April 23, 2018 at 10:12 am, DWEEZIL THE WEASEL said:
Gryphon: Word. Truth is its own defense.
On April 23, 2018 at 2:00 pm, Longbow said:
Fuck the GOP. A Vote for Fabian Socialism is a vote for Leninism, but in slow motion.
On April 23, 2018 at 6:21 pm, Pat Hines said:
All of the Scandinavian countries were and are Fabian socialist governments. We can see what that led to.
Anders Brevik attempted to stop this in Norway, he’s still called bad names among many. One thing is certain, Brevik did cause a huge dent in the hereditary Fabian socialist government in Norway. He wiped out many of those being groomed to take the reins of government.
Eventually, Breivik will be awarded hero status in Norway.
On April 23, 2018 at 7:34 pm, Henry said:
“called on government agencies to cancel contracts with the banks and defer deregulation proposals that would benefit them. But other Republicans want to keep their hands off, saying lenders are free to decide who they do business with. It’s a conundrum that puts the free-market principles at odds with gun rights”
At least they had the common decency not to cram the phrase “free market principles” into the same sentence with “government contracts and deregulation proposals.”
if one of these banks decided it no longer wanted to open accounts for black people, or people whose faces or names appeared Hispanic, do you think the government would agree that those “lenders are free to decide who they do business with?”