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How Banks Unwittingly Finance Mass Shootings
nytimes.com ^ | 12/24/2018 | ANDREW ROSS SORKIN

Posted on 12/25/2018 8:07:09 AM PST by rktman

A New York Times examination of mass shootings since the Virginia Tech attack in 2007 reveals how credit cards have become a crucial part of the planning of these massacres. There have been 13 shootings that killed 10 or more people in the last decade, and in at least eight of them, the killers financed their attacks using credit cards. Some used credit to acquire firearms they could not otherwise have afforded.

Those eight shootings killed 217 people. The investigations undertaken in their aftermath uncovered a rich trove of information about the killers’ spending. There were plenty of red flags, if only someone were able to look for them, law enforcement experts say.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1a; 2a; banglist; credit; creditcards; kaba
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To: rktman
Darn.

I'm above my monthly article quota, and I can't get past the NYT paywall.

I'm really curious how the NYT determined that these mass killers could not afford guns and ammo without a credit card.

Apparently, all eight of these killers were utterly impoverished?

But they still had credit cards?

No car to sell? No home to re-finance? Nothing to pawn? Couldn't find a second job?

I don't believe it.

41 posted on 12/25/2018 2:40:04 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

See post 40 this thread. Merry Christmas.


42 posted on 12/25/2018 3:21:46 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

This is actual fascism, not the free market, as the cookie-cutter conservatives proclaim


43 posted on 12/25/2018 4:32:42 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: rktman

Don’t I wish.
I have always wondered why billionaire PROG/LIB/DEM/COMMIE/QUEER rich peckerwoods are willing to start and run companies that mean harm to our Constitution and our Country, but we don’t have any on the side of that coin.
There has to be at least one or two that could do this?


44 posted on 12/25/2018 7:52:54 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: MV=PY

Well; money or poontang anyway.


45 posted on 12/25/2018 7:55:20 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: logi_cal869

Hey; I am getting ready to buy a brand new Dodge Ram 2500, I don’t want to hear that kind of crap.

even as sarcasm!


46 posted on 12/25/2018 7:59:29 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: rktman

AS WOULD I.


47 posted on 12/25/2018 8:00:56 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: rktman

AS WOULD I.


48 posted on 12/25/2018 8:00:56 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

sorry about the double post folks, to much coffee and fingers get jittery.


49 posted on 12/25/2018 8:04:25 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: rktman
Anyone wonder why "to big to fail" banks were helped out by the fed to the point that they were able to buy up many of the smaller banks?

It was for this reason. The government picked the companies that were easiest to pressure to support liberals. They then gave them the ability to drive their competition out of business in return for some favors to be named later.

Once you have everything flowing through only a few places it is easy to block anything you like.

I know some here will cry and beat their breasts about how these are "private companies" and we should not object but just make our own multinational banks out of clay without straw.

Go soak your head.

These are not private companies any more.

These are arms of the state.

There was a reason that monopolies were considered anti-freedom.

50 posted on 12/25/2018 8:27:08 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: 5th MEB

I’m confused by your comment.

I dissed SUVs; a pickup is not an SUV.

Furthermore, there is no such thing as a brand new “Dodge Ram”; there are only Ram trucks.

Hittin’ the eggnog tonight?

Seriously: I hear that’s an awesome truck, and that’s not sarcasm (as was my original comment which was missing a sarc tag; my bad. Then again perhaps you did, too. /s).


51 posted on 12/25/2018 8:29:08 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

I like my 2012 Ram Hemi.


52 posted on 12/25/2018 9:14:42 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Gosh - if they do away with physical money and then exert huge control over electronic transactions, they could even keep folks from buying bread...forget guns.....


53 posted on 12/26/2018 3:20:39 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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