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So, this is particularly relevant to recent events that HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED, or ARE HAPPENING. Not to beat a dead horse, but some vendors have ALREADY lost support of financial institutions, such as e-commerce payment processors, possibly doors closed to them at banks for business accounts... Fortunately, a good one, 80P Builder, managed to get back on their feet after some hosting assistance from Zaffiri Precision, sadly another fine vendor is being lost, Rockey Brass. While I don't want to tread on the toes of the Posts that discussed these issues already and I certainly DON'T want to re-hash anything there either, I feel they are relevant and timely to what Mr Noir brings up here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0neV2yD85k
This is one of the many attacks formulated by the anti-gun lobby to strike out at our so-called 'gun culture', pushing firearms discussion into the uncomfortable realm of socially unacceptable topics that have people looking over their shoulders, even when they have done nothing wrong. And now, they want this 'conversation' brought into the light of OUR banks, OUR credit-card issuers, OUR wallets... For what purpose, another social shout-down and shaming? Or something worse? When we 'aren't supposed to even talk about it', how are we supposed to stay United?
Creating enough hurdles to make firearm ownership unpleasant, too expensive, difficult to exercise, or hard to source, will turn MANY people away from owning a gun, and MANY of those middle-of-the-road people will turn anti-gun, deciding that if they don't have one, YOU shouldn't have one either. Would the landscape of our Country's 2A culture look the way it does now if you could still drive down to your local K-Mart and buy a Remington 700 for a few hundred bucks, and walk out with the box under your arm fifteen minutes later? How has 'de-normalizing' gun ownership influenced how open we are about this particular interest? Would anti-gunners have much political pull if responsible gun ownership was the 'gold-standard' of political rhetoric, instead of 'gun BANS'? Look what happened to Australia with their 'gun ban', look how close to the precipice we are sitting right now, and answer honestly if this insidious 'financial institution' back-door tracking makes you feel safer, or less secure. I am pretty sure I know how MOST of us here feel about it...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0neV2yD85k
This is one of the many attacks formulated by the anti-gun lobby to strike out at our so-called 'gun culture', pushing firearms discussion into the uncomfortable realm of socially unacceptable topics that have people looking over their shoulders, even when they have done nothing wrong. And now, they want this 'conversation' brought into the light of OUR banks, OUR credit-card issuers, OUR wallets... For what purpose, another social shout-down and shaming? Or something worse? When we 'aren't supposed to even talk about it', how are we supposed to stay United?
Creating enough hurdles to make firearm ownership unpleasant, too expensive, difficult to exercise, or hard to source, will turn MANY people away from owning a gun, and MANY of those middle-of-the-road people will turn anti-gun, deciding that if they don't have one, YOU shouldn't have one either. Would the landscape of our Country's 2A culture look the way it does now if you could still drive down to your local K-Mart and buy a Remington 700 for a few hundred bucks, and walk out with the box under your arm fifteen minutes later? How has 'de-normalizing' gun ownership influenced how open we are about this particular interest? Would anti-gunners have much political pull if responsible gun ownership was the 'gold-standard' of political rhetoric, instead of 'gun BANS'? Look what happened to Australia with their 'gun ban', look how close to the precipice we are sitting right now, and answer honestly if this insidious 'financial institution' back-door tracking makes you feel safer, or less secure. I am pretty sure I know how MOST of us here feel about it...