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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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.
See post 40 this thread. Merry Christmas.
This is actual fascism, not the free market, as the cookie-cutter conservatives proclaim
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?
Well; money or poontang anyway.
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!
AS WOULD I.
AS WOULD I.
sorry about the double post folks, to much coffee and fingers get jittery.
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.
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).
I like my 2012 Ram Hemi.
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.....
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