Amex, Visa, MC to start tracking gun sales

[Anonymous]

Financial firm analytics can probably predict with pinpoint accuracy who will end up committing mass shootings based on demographics and other spending habits.

It will be fascinating what they do with this powerful data

[Anonymous]

Financial services and institutions should simply make the names of anyone who purchased a gun or gun related item available for all to see on a public database. Let their neighbors and everyone else know they bought a gun. Then people can make use of red flag laws to petition courts to have those guns confiscated. We have the resources in place. People just need to make use of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Financial firm analytics can probably predict with pinpoint accuracy who will end up committing mass shootings based on demographics and other spending habits.

It will be fascinating what they do with this powerful data

Clearly they should arrest and try them for murder before crimes are committed!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial firm analytics can probably predict with pinpoint accuracy who will end up committing mass shootings based on demographics and other spending habits.

It will be fascinating what they do with this powerful data

Clearly they should arrest and try them for murder before crimes are committed!

DP. It says so much about you that you jump right to trying and convicting without it occurring to you that there may be constructive ways to address this, like intervening to provide mental health treatment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial firm analytics can probably predict with pinpoint accuracy who will end up committing mass shootings based on demographics and other spending habits.

It will be fascinating what they do with this powerful data

Clearly they should arrest and try them for murder before crimes are committed!

DP. It says so much about you that you jump right to trying and convicting without it occurring to you that there may be constructive ways to address this, like intervening to provide mental health treatment.

Well, if you can use pinpoint accuracy to determine who will commit a mass shooting, it stands to reason you should arrest that person, even if they’ve done nothing, correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial firm analytics can probably predict with pinpoint accuracy who will end up committing mass shootings based on demographics and other spending habits.

It will be fascinating what they do with this powerful data

Clearly they should arrest and try them for murder before crimes are committed!

DP. It says so much about you that you jump right to trying and convicting without it occurring to you that there may be constructive ways to address this, like intervening to provide mental health treatment.

Well, if you can use pinpoint accuracy to determine who will commit a mass shooting, it stands to reason you should arrest that person, even if they’ve done nothing, correct?

No, not correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Financial services and institutions should simply make the names of anyone who purchased a gun or gun related item available for all to see on a public database. Let their neighbors and everyone else know they bought a gun. Then people can make use of red flag laws to petition courts to have those guns confiscated. We have the resources in place. People just need to make use of them.

I want to know who has a gun so I can avoid them. I am raising a brown kid who is a total baby but could look threatening I guess because of his size. I don’t want him having any sort of misunderstandings with a frightened gun owner who might choose to “defend himself”. In my opinion, gun owners are generally frightened of their own shadows and are actually the people I would not want having a gun. Given that we can’t seem to make any progress on not arming every American, maybe we should focus on protecting ourselves from the gun nuts instead.

[Anonymous]

Right, pharmacies in Canada all stopped selling tobacco products a few years ago. I am sure it cost them money, but they felt it conflicted with their values. Hurrah. A company that puts something over profits!

In 2014, CVS did the same. Give them business. This was the right thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial firm analytics can probably predict with pinpoint accuracy who will end up committing mass shootings based on demographics and other spending habits.

It will be fascinating what they do with this powerful data

Clearly they should arrest and try them for murder before crimes are committed!

DP. It says so much about you that you jump right to trying and convicting without it occurring to you that there may be constructive ways to address this, like intervening to provide mental health treatment.

Well, if you can use pinpoint accuracy to determine who will commit a mass shooting, it stands to reason you should arrest that person, even if they’ve done nothing, correct?

No, not correct.

So you agree the data will be of limited use

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial services and institutions should simply make the names of anyone who purchased a gun or gun related item available for all to see on a public database. Let their neighbors and everyone else know they bought a gun. Then people can make use of red flag laws to petition courts to have those guns confiscated. We have the resources in place. People just need to make use of them.

I want to know who has a gun so I can avoid them. I am raising a brown kid who is a total baby but could look threatening I guess because of his size. I don’t want him having any sort of misunderstandings with a frightened gun owner who might choose to “defend himself”. In my opinion, gun owners are generally frightened of their own shadows and are actually the people I would not want having a gun. Given that we can’t seem to make any progress on not arming every American, maybe we should focus on protecting ourselves from the gun nuts instead.

“Brown kids” have a much bigger chance of getting killed by a peer than by some right wing gun owning boogeyman. Of course, you knew this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial services and institutions should simply make the names of anyone who purchased a gun or gun related item available for all to see on a public database. Let their neighbors and everyone else know they bought a gun. Then people can make use of red flag laws to petition courts to have those guns confiscated. We have the resources in place. People just need to make use of them.

I want to know who has a gun so I can avoid them. I am raising a brown kid who is a total baby but could look threatening I guess because of his size. I don’t want him having any sort of misunderstandings with a frightened gun owner who might choose to “defend himself”. In my opinion, gun owners are generally frightened of their own shadows and are actually the people I would not want having a gun. Given that we can’t seem to make any progress on not arming every American, maybe we should focus on protecting ourselves from the gun nuts instead.

“Brown kids” have a much bigger chance of getting killed by a peer than by some right wing gun owning boogeyman. Of course, you knew this.

Not my brown kid being raised in the suburbs. He is more at risk from a nut. Right wing or otherwise.

He is susceptible to all the ills of a suburban lifestyle - like drugs, pressure that leads to depression etc. But he is really not at significant risk for getting killed by a peer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial firm analytics can probably predict with pinpoint accuracy who will end up committing mass shootings based on demographics and other spending habits.

It will be fascinating what they do with this powerful data

Clearly they should arrest and try them for murder before crimes are committed!

DP. It says so much about you that you jump right to trying and convicting without it occurring to you that there may be constructive ways to address this, like intervening to provide mental health treatment.

What do you think intervention is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial services and institutions should simply make the names of anyone who purchased a gun or gun related item available for all to see on a public database. Let their neighbors and everyone else know they bought a gun. Then people can make use of red flag laws to petition courts to have those guns confiscated. We have the resources in place. People just need to make use of them.

I want to know who has a gun so I can avoid them. I am raising a brown kid who is a total baby but could look threatening I guess because of his size. I don’t want him having any sort of misunderstandings with a frightened gun owner who might choose to “defend himself”. In my opinion, gun owners are generally frightened of their own shadows and are actually the people I would not want having a gun. Given that we can’t seem to make any progress on not arming every American, maybe we should focus on protecting ourselves from the gun nuts instead.

The level of ignorance and paranoia in this post is pretty astounding. You are going to have to shield your brown kid from other brown people because 35 percent of non-white Americans live in a household with a gun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial services and institutions should simply make the names of anyone who purchased a gun or gun related item available for all to see on a public database. Let their neighbors and everyone else know they bought a gun. Then people can make use of red flag laws to petition courts to have those guns confiscated. We have the resources in place. People just need to make use of them.

I want to know who has a gun so I can avoid them. I am raising a brown kid who is a total baby but could look threatening I guess because of his size. I don’t want him having any sort of misunderstandings with a frightened gun owner who might choose to “defend himself”. In my opinion, gun owners are generally frightened of their own shadows and are actually the people I would not want having a gun. Given that we can’t seem to make any progress on not arming every American, maybe we should focus on protecting ourselves from the gun nuts instead.

“Brown kids” have a much bigger chance of getting killed by a peer than by some right wing gun owning boogeyman. Of course, you knew this.

Not my brown kid being raised in the suburbs. He is more at risk from a nut. Right wing or otherwise.

He is susceptible to all the ills of a suburban lifestyle - like drugs, pressure that leads to depression etc. But he is really not at significant risk for getting killed by a peer.

Simply false. Hispanic/Black homicides in suburbs is lower than urban environments but still significantly higher than White and Asian. Crime statistics also indicate that the victims are overwhelmingly of the same race as the attacker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Financial services and institutions should simply make the names of anyone who purchased a gun or gun related item available for all to see on a public database. Let their neighbors and everyone else know they bought a gun. Then people can make use of red flag laws to petition courts to have those guns confiscated. We have the resources in place. People just need to make use of them.

I want to know who has a gun so I can avoid them. I am raising a brown kid who is a total baby but could look threatening I guess because of his size. I don’t want him having any sort of misunderstandings with a frightened gun owner who might choose to “defend himself”. In my opinion, gun owners are generally frightened of their own shadows and are actually the people I would not want having a gun. Given that we can’t seem to make any progress on not arming every American, maybe we should focus on protecting ourselves from the gun nuts instead.

The level of ignorance and paranoia in this post is pretty astounding. You are going to have to shield your brown kid from other brown people because 35 percent of non-white Americans live in a household with a gun.

So when people point out that the chance of a home invasion is small, gun fetishists talk about “why take a chance”. I am in the same boat. I would like to know where gun owners are so that if my kid breaks down and has to knock at a neighbor’s door, he is avoiding the trigger-happy frightened gun owner. Even if the majority of gun owners would help my kid out, I don’t want him to come across the one who wouldn’t. Call it paranoia if you want. But it’s my responsibility to do what I can to teach him how to stay safe. And the way for a brown kid to stay safe is to avoid people they don’t know with guns. Because those gun owners could be amped up on an unhealthy diet of fear and my kid could be the victim of their insecurity. No thank you.