"GOP split as banks take on gun industry"

"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."

"Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, who has asked an expanding list of federal and state officials to cut off the banks from government contracts. He has also discouraged Republican leadership from taking up regulatory rollbacks that would benefit banks’ trading operations. He has also suggested that Citi might be running afoul of federal, state and local laws."

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...p-split-544739

Looks like we got a conundrum for the gun loving conservatives, do they support employing the Gov't to pressure banks into doing business with the gun industry, or, do they support capitalism's tenent of free enterprise without Gov't interference?

Does show one phenomena not possible even five years ago, it isn't the political sphere that is forcing recognition of a gun problem in America but rather economic and social currents are highlighting the realities. The NRA has to really really hate those high school kids from Florida

 

So that so called Republican Senator Kennedy from Louisiana wants to use big government to squash private business all because he does not agree with them. What happened with not letting big government interfere with private business?

 

If major banks start making business decisions based on social causes or purely political positions they will scrud themselves eventually.

 

Any institution that attacks our rights should be decimated by public rejection.

 

The NRA is infinitely more dangerous to Americans, than ISIS or anyone else.

 

You know this is garbage....but....

Good luck backing up your claim. I'm sure it's purely coincidence that you posted zero supporting evidence backing up your horse **** claim.

 

NRA-enabled 320 million guns in a sick American society? What could possibly go wrong?
Insane people with high-tech weaponry built for killing lots of people, congratulations.

 

and banks are your buddys?

 

Banks can do as they wish, and the gunners can go fish.

 

yeah and dont hunt the bunny wabbits too right

 

Brilliant, NOT

 

You're making my argument for me. If guns and gun culture were a problem you'd have a thousand times more deaths than we currently have. The fact there are so many guns and so few gun deaths is overwhelming evidence that it is not, in any way, a gun issue. Furthermore, it's certainly not an issue with the nra either.

 

filthy commies were crapping and pissing all over Wall Street to express their disdain for banks, now the banksters are their BFFs

 

The NRA has never killed anyone.

David "Lil Hitler" Hogg, the Parkland Pukes, and the DNC anti-gun crusade however just drove this kid out of school and to his death.

 

What a total lie.

 

While I agree with most of your post, to say that "overwhelming evidence that it is not, in any way, a gun issue" is a bit disingenuous. Without guns there would be no gun crime. Therefore, guns are, indeed, a factor.

 

They're the buddies of most right wingers.

Right wingers here on this forum and elsewhere NEVER criticize Wall Street. Even when the economy was collapsing and the banks were being called out for all sorts of stuff, right wingers stuck by them. Instead of demanding reform, right wingers bought the corporate line and fought reform. They still are.

 

Nope.

Total truth.

Parkland Middle School student hit, killed on Loop 375 after leaving campus during walkout encouraged by David "Lil Hitler" Hogg, the Parkland Pukes, and the DNC anti-gun crusade
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/n...ed-hit-vehicle-loop-375-pedestrian/536976002/

 

That is a pretty big stretch there.

 

This confirms what I've been saying they don't hate the gun lobby they don't hate Donald Trump they hate you. They hate your beliefs. They hate the control you have over your life they hate the wealth you build for yourself they want to take it all away from you.

The time for rational debate is over clearly. If one can think an association of American citizens protecting their rights is more dangerous than a terrorist organization then that person has lost all ability to rationalize and I would advise not to attempt to rationalize.

What he is saying is you are worse than Isis.

 

That is incorrect it is applying the same logic of the person who says the NRA is responsible for the shooting. If you believe that gun is responsible for the shooting then a car is responsible for this death I'm glad you can see the inconsistencies and such an argument but I doubt that's going to dissuade you from making it. Logical consistency seems to be a short supply

 

reformed wouldn't have worked it was the government that created that problem.

See the solution is never more government control whether you call it reform or not.

 

I would say they should be charged with sedition. This is the kind of crap that will lead to a civil war.

 

The major banks are no longer private businesses

They are joined at the hip with big governement

 

What an insane comment.