"GOP split as banks take on gun industry"

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free enterprise is great. discrimination is not......or should bakers be allowed to deny making wedding cakes for certain couples now?

Saw that coming, the banks are refusing to do business with another business, purely economic, can't make a business do business with a failing customer, the bakers would be denying an individual his rights as a citizen, big difference

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They are not blacklisting, they'd just rather not do business with them, and you can't say they are depriving any individual of their rights as a citizen - (anticipating the next conservative exchange)

I didn't say they were denying anybody a right. We refuse to lend money to gun manufacturers sounds like blacklisting to me.

[evince]

you don't have a clue about the constitution, except to use it as a weapon against those you hate, racist

you are not the final arbiter of what the constitution says

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I thought liberals claim Republicans walk in lock step. Also, don't you guys support "boycotts"?

And what is your basis that the left's boogeyman NRA hates those kids?

Relax, the gun lobby works with "both" partys.

[evince]

I didn't say they were denying anybody a right. We refuse to lend money to gun manufacturers sounds like blacklisting to me.

the financial danger is too large

[evince]

Relax, the gun lobby works with "both" partys.

see you hate everyone

[evince]

Saw that coming, the banks are refusing to do business with another business, purely economic, can't make a business do business with a failing customer, the bakers would be denying an individual his rights as a citizen, big difference

and the NRA is about to be busted by the feds


making it even more dangerous to loan to them

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"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 are 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

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 against discrimination.....maybe next time banks will be cutting off business with black people....or maybe Planned Parenthood.

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see you hate everyone

Actually I look at everyone equally. They do what they do and I observe that. Partisanshitheads always struggle with that, again, because it does not comport with your labelling paradigm.

[evince]

you hate everyone

its irrational and childish

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Don't know anything about the "lock step" whatever, but this certainly puts a gun loving conservative in a difficult position, well, that's if they actually believe all the stuff they tell us makes them a conservative

And "basis that the NRA hates those kids," easy, already told you, "it isn't the political sphere that are forcing recognition of a gun problem in America but rather economic and social currents," events and forces outside of the political sphere beyond the control or influence of the NRA

What? So because others are forcing recognition of gun problems, means the NRA hates those kids?

That makes zero sense.

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I didn't say they were denying anybody a right. We refuse to lend money to gun manufacturers sounds like blacklisting to me.

If you were a banker would you do business with another business that wasn't do all that well and that your customers weren't that fond of, to borrow the line from the Godfather, "it's just business"

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If you were a banker would you do business with another business that wasn't do all that well and that your customers weren't that fond of, to borrow the line from the Godfather, "it's just business"

If I were a bank, I wouldn't blacklist an entire legal industry, nor should it be allowed to.

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What? So because others are forcing recognition of gun problems, means the NRA hates those kids?

That makes zero sense.

Not at all, because of those kids the issue has moved beyond the political arena where the NRA had influence, as we see here with the banks and others as retailers Dicks and even Walmart, were the NRA is a total non factor. Without those kids, it would still be in realm they could control, not any longer

Really not that difficult

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If I were a bank, I wouldn't blacklist an entire legal industry, nor should it be allowed to.

Again, they are not blacklisting them, just finding other customers they rather deal with, no law says a business has to do business with another business