We can look at that after we sue every church, police department and government official in Mexico that enabled the drug cartels. We can start in Culiacán.
I've copied a short list of a few you may have heard of here:
A&M Records AMC Theatres AOL / Time Warner AT&T Bank of America Burger King Chipotle Delta Airlines DICK’S Sporting Goods Disney Company DoorDash Enterprise Eventbrite GEICO Gucci Levi Strauss & Co. Lucent Technologies Lyft MetLife Microsoft MSNBC MTV NBC Universal Panera Bread Progressive Insurance Sara Lee Sonic Symantec Uber Yelp
"The assault on gun rights is coming at us from all angles. To be frank, there’s never been a time in history where there were more forces working in a coordinated manner to destroy one’s right to keep and bear arms. "
20/20 Vision : I go to a private real optometrist not a doc in a box. A&M Records : I don't buy records anymore AlleyCorp : New York based middle-man investment company that claims to "find" new companies. I should never have anything to do with an outfit like this. Alphabet, Inc. : Another middle-man investment company. I should never have anything to do with an outfit like this. Amalgamated Bank : New York based bank outfit that has their peter in on every major issue that is wrong with America today. Wouldn't bank there if my life savings depended on it. Ambition : Business management middle-man company that helps businesses be businesses. I should never have anything to do with an outfit like this. AMC Theatres. : Who goes to the theatre anymore anyway? AOL / Time Warner : AOL died in the 2000's. Ariel Investments LLC: Stock market middle-man company. I should never have anything to do with an outfit like this. Artsy : Not really into purchasing art. If I do, I purchase locally from someone that I have connections to. Ascend.io : Data engineering company that is most likely why you think your technology is spying on you. Aspiration : Financial middle-man company that tells you what to do with your money. I should never have anything to do with an outfit like this. AT&T : I use T-Mobile, they probably suck too. Buy you have to use somethin. Aura : Digital security company that probably has software that acts just like a virus to keep you "safe" AutoZone : Used to do business there, but will start mainly going to O'reilly's Backpack : Don't know what "company" this is. Try googling "Backpack" and see what ya get. Bad Robot : Started off making good shows for GayBC but have since gone to crap. Even messed up the Star Wars movies. Bain Capital : Middle-man Investment company. I should never have anything to do with an outfit like this. Bank of America: Do have a CC from them but will try my best to get rid of it and find something else. Beeswax: None of yours, JK. Pyramid scheme company that has a hippie-skippy bearded millennial on their home page.
I'm tired of typing. I'll try to finish later. But here is the rest of the list.
Begin Betaworks Beyond Meat Bloomberg LP Bonusly Brat Brookfield Property Brud Bumble Burger King Cambly Catch & Release Cerebras Systems Chipotle Circle Medical ClassPass Clearbit Clever Clockwise CNN Color Genomics Comcast Conde Nast Costco Credit Karma Crunchbase Curalate Curtsy Dannon Delta Airlines DICK’S Sporting Goods Disney Company DoorDash Doxel, Inc. Ebay Ecolab Edelman Elektra Labs Emerson Collective Enterprise Eventbrite Farmstead Full Picture Fundera Gap Inc. Gateway Computers GE GEICO Goat Group Golden Graphic Packaging Group Nine Media Gucci Guru Hallmark Cards Hard Rock Cafe Havas Group HBO Hint, Inc. HipDot Hooked Horizon Media Humbition Impossible Foods Interpublic Intuit JOOR Jumbo Privacy Kabbage Inc. Kadena Kanga Knowable Lattice Levi Strauss & Co. Lucent Technologies Lyft MetaProp.vc MetLife Microsoft Modern Fertility MongoDB Inc. MSNBC MTV Navient NBC Universal NCR Corp. Neighborland NewsCred Nextdoor NowThis Nurx Oaktree Capital Oberndorf Enterprises Oceans OfferUp Okta Omnicom Group Openpath Panera Bread Parabol Paravision Paypal Pinterest Plato Design Postmates Presto Prima Progressive Insurance Prologis Publicis Groupe Quartzy Reddit Ribbon Health Ro Roofstock Royal Caribbean Cruises RXR Realty Sara Lee SelfMade Shoptiques Inc. Showtime Cable Network Shutterstock Inc. Sidewalk Labs Sift Skillshare SkySafe Small Door SmartAsset Snapdocs, Inc. Solve.io Sonic Southwestern Bell Splash Square and Twitter Squarespace Standard Bots Subway Sundia Corporation Sunlight Health Superplastic SurveyMonkey SV Angel Symantec ThirdLove Thisopenspace inc. Thrive Capital Thrive Global ThunderCore Inc. Tillable Tinder TOMS Twilio Uber Uniform Teeth Viosera Therapeutics Virtual Kitchen Voxer Voyage Watsi WayUp Whalar Wizeline WPP X.ai, inc. Y Combinator Yelp Yum Brands Zola
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I wouldn't call this a "win" per say, but at least preventing another loss for America. You take what you can get and celebrate the small things. I'm glad ot see there is still some sense in some of our leadership.
Guess what the future of discrimination against our 2nd Amendment rights are?
Here is the current status:
"PayPal's firearms policy: PayPal does not allow the use of its service or logo for selling firearms, certain firearm parts or ammunition. Using PayPal for payments associated with items that are prohibited by their Acceptable Use Policy may result in the suspension or closure of your PayPal account.
Venmo's firearms policy: Venmo does not allow the use of its service or logo for selling firearms, certain firearm parts or ammunition. Using Venmo for payments associated with items that are prohibited by their Acceptable Use Policy may result in the suspension or closure of your Venmo account.
Zelle's firearms policy: Zelle does not allow the use of its service or logo for selling firearms, certain firearm parts or ammunition. Using Zelle for payments associated with items that are prohibited by their Acceptable Use Policy may result in the suspension or closure of your Zelle account."
At the same time, how many of you think the future of money is cashless / online? How long will the dollar preside?
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Guess what the future of discrimination against our 2nd Amendment rights are?
Here is the current status:
"PayPal's firearms policy: PayPal does not allow the use of its service or logo for selling firearms, certain firearm parts or ammunition. Using PayPal for payments associated with items that are prohibited by their Acceptable Use Policy may result in the suspension or closure of your PayPal account.
Venmo's firearms policy: Venmo does not allow the use of its service or logo for selling firearms, certain firearm parts or ammunition. Using Venmo for payments associated with items that are prohibited by their Acceptable Use Policy may result in the suspension or closure of your Venmo account.
Zelle's firearms policy: Zelle does not allow the use of its service or logo for selling firearms, certain firearm parts or ammunition. Using Zelle for payments associated with items that are prohibited by their Acceptable Use Policy may result in the suspension or closure of your Zelle account."
At the same time, how many of you think the future of money is cashless / online? How long will the dollar preside?
One company's stupid virtue signaling decision is invariably another company's free market opportunity.
Additionally, the majority of commercial banks and independent credit unions have only one moral imperative: Profit is good. Loss is evil.
There are a multitude of options available other than the 3rd party payment services for secure online payments.
They may not be as convenient for you but they are there.
It is interesting that PayPal, not being a chartered bank, uses both Bancorp Bank and Synchrony Bank, both of which ARE United States chartered banks and to date I have not heard that either of those banks have any problems with where their other customers spend their money or receive it.
Here is a an enterprising new company responding to the current climate: https://www.guntab.com/
I haven't looked at all of the details about them yet but I noted that they charge the same 2.9% transaction fee to sellers that PayPal does.
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There are a multitude of options available other than the 3rd party payment services for secure online payments.
For sure. Thankfully we still live in a free market society. But this is a disturbing and seemingly growing trend that I don't care for. Its not just government regulations that seem to be reaching to limit the 2nd amendment.
What do ya know? Applying common sense, and also the rules of the country. Who knew? Its almost like that is how it is meant to work.
I would amend his last statement to say it is not just one "party"
Also there is a risk there of them making up "illegal" charges to begin with. Corruption never sleeps.
One of the vids comments said someting else of interest: "It’s amazing how they say an arm brace “makes a gun more dangerous” , but if you pay a $200 tax, it’s perfectly fine."
So the argument is, if things can get dangerous and there are lots of people, thats where you shouldn't be allowed to be able protect yourself...
In many states it is not legal to carry and drink. New York doesnt happen to be one of those states, LOL! You'd think for folks that believe criminals will follow laws, they would understand this.
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Here is an example of how nuts things can quickly get.
“Requiring every gun owner in my city to carry liability insurance will better compensate unintentional shooting victims and their families for medical and related expenses,” Liccardo reasons in his Op-ed. “Imposing a modest annual fee on gun owners can support underfunded domestic violence and suicide prevention programs, gun-safety classes, mental health services and addiction intervention.”
San Jose, Calif., Mayor Sam Liccardo is reminding Californians the San Jose City Council is scheduled to vote Jan. 25 on two proposals he offered last summer that are sure to raise hackles, mandatory liability insurance and “the payment of annual fees to fund violence-reduction initiatives.” It is not clear how much the fee will be, but Liccardo appears to be setting up the city for an expensive future in court, and not just in state courts, but in the federal court, since his plan may constitute placing a tax on the exercise of a constitutionally-protected fundamental right.
At least the mayor also admits, “These new laws won’t end all gun violence.”
This has become the standard operating caveat of any recent gun control crusade: “It won’t solve all of the problems.” Gun rights activists contend it won’t solve any of the problems.
“Failure to comply with the ordinance would constitute a civil violation rather than a criminal offense.” However, police officers could confiscate firearms from people who cannot provide proof of insurance, and they could be fined. Furthermore, according to the newspaper, “Refusal to hand over firearms upon a request from police could result in a misdemeanor charge.”
If you weren't aware, certain Banks are descriminating against 2nd amendment freedoms in the USA.
"Woke Bankers When everyone started being “woke” that was all the excuse some executives needed to cut their firms’ ties with the firearms industry. They were “virtue signaling.”
After several major banks and investment groups began shunning the firearms industry by denying gun-related businesses access to banking services, the National Shooting Sports Foundation has been quietly working with primarily Republican-led, but pro-Second Amendment states to attach a penalty to the practice.
Texas has already passed anti-discrimination legislation. It prevents Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group and JP Morgan Chase & Co. from participation in the public-finance markets there.
GOP lawmakers in Arizona, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota, and West Virginia have legislation pending that would restrict those same bankers from participating in the very lucrative public-finance business in their states.
As you imagine, the bankers are squawking- loudly- about being “discriminated against.”
But their lobbyists are finding it tougher to convince legislators in Frankfort, Kentucky than in Sacramento, California, that their practices are legitimate business decisions. Instead, they’re finding a different political reality in states that skew more red than blue.
The municipal finance market has always intertwined with politics. Bankers depend on relationships with officials to win business. I’ve covered more than one business story where those relationships got a bit too cozy, leading to city, county, and state officials finding themselves residents of correctional facilities they once governed.
Today, as Financial Advisor reports to its readers, as “the nation is increasingly divided on issues from vaccines to education, financial institutions that restrict their dealings with gunmakers- and in some states, oil and coal companies as well- now face blowback even in the normally staid world of public finance.”
The municipal market is a $4 trillion dollar business. If -or when – these states pass their legislation, it will have the potential to really shake that business up.
Texas, where the law went into effect on September 1st, 2021, writes around $50 billion in annual debt sales. Only California provides more business for bankers.
Opponents of the legislation say limiting the number of competitors for a state or municipality’s business is a “hidden cost to taxpayers.” Fewer lenders, they say, will lead to higher costs for access to capital.
The GOP Legislators’ Response? They’re defending their constituents from “corporate America’s attack on their way of life.”
The NSSF’s Larry Keane has been involved in the NSSF efforts since their beginning. He says there’s a very simple solution: “banks,” he says, “can simply stop discriminating.”
At the SHOT Show governor’s roundtable, Keane continued to push the governors in attendance to push back against “woke banking.”
There’s no guarantee any of the proposed legislation will pass. Indiana’s legislation died in committee last month. We are, after all, talking about politics. And it seems politicians don’t always listen to their constituents once they get into office.
But these states are populated with plenty of staunch 2A supporters who are also voters.
Legislators tend to listen to them more closely when we’re approaching election years."
"Seattle is the home of Amazon’s corporate headquarters, employing more than 80,000 people. It is also one of the nation’s epicenters of crime, rioting, and looting
The online sales behemoth that embraces gun control and defunding police is now witnessing the effects of those policies.
Amazon is moving employees out of a downtown corporate building over concerns of rising crime.
“Given recent incidents…, we’re providing employees currently at that location with alternative office space elsewhere,” an Amazon spokesperson recently told media. “We are hopeful that conditions will improve and that we will be able to bring employees back to this location when it is safe to do so.”
To understand how the neighborhood became so violent as to force them to relocate their employees to safer confines, Amazon may want to look in the mirror..."
I'm kind of a "squish" when it comes to the Second Amendment. It's not something I think about very much, until it becomes front page news or there's yet another Pennock's thread about it in play.
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That is the thing about it, people think it doesnt matter right up until it does.
I have prevailed upon Garrett Epps to generously extend himself by agreeing to participate (so to speak) in this thread, as well as that other currently active forum thread "School shootings... what changed?"
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"Part of the miserable ritual that follows American mass shootings [writes Garrett Epps, in March of 2018] is the lament that nothing can be done unless we get rid of the Second Amendment."
In this essay from 2018, Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Baltimore Garrett Epps uses his knowledge of constitutional law and of American history and jurisprudence to eviscerate the dangerous and delusional notion that the Second Amendment is reasonably construed as conferring an "inalienable right" for any private citizen—let alone a private citizen who had only just turned 18—to acquire the almost 2000 rounds of 5.56 hollow-point ammunition, the ammo-loading magazines, and the Daniels Defense DDM4 semiautomatic rifle that the Uvalde perpetrator obtained from a local gun dealer in a series of routine, legally authorized, and over the counter purchases.
The Uvalde atrocity was still 4 years in the future, relative to this 2018 essay, but everything that Dr. Epps said in this essay is just as cogent today as it was in 2018.
Epps takes a close look at the text of the Second Amendment—a single sentence of 27 words—and deconstructs its meaning by drawing upon his knowledge of the Articles of Confederation, which preceded the establishment of the Constitution of the United States in 1789.
I think anyone that wants to would be able to peruse this essay, using the Internet page link that I provide, whether or not they are a subscriber to The Atlantic.
"The Second Amendment Does Not Transcend All Others"
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Its text and context don’t ensure an unlimited individual right to bear any kind and number of weapons by anyone.
I have prevailed upon Garrett Epps to generously extend himself by agreeing to participate (so to speak) in this thread, as well as that other currently active forum thread "School shootings... what changed?"
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/...econd-135616228.html "The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own," he said in June 2021, White House transcripts show. "You couldn’t buy a cannon."
Leftist gotta Leftist ....and none of them understand the United States Constitution....but they do loathe it.
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"'A 9MM bullet blows the lung out of the body' has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Joe Biden is an imbecile. Why do the people who know the least about guns want to yap their gums the most about guns?" tweeted congressional candidate Robby Starbuck."
Leftists gotta Leftist.......so they believe and say really moronic things.
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The thing to keep in mind with regard to Brandon's idiotic statement is that he actually "said the quiet part out loud".
The 9mm is most generally a handgun round, not a rifle round.
If you were naive enough to believe that the Leftists are only after your so-called "assault rifles", Brandon just inadvertently dispelled your mistaken idea for you.
THEY WANT ALL OF YOUR GUNS
That's the end game.
A completely disarmed population is a completely compliant population
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