Credit-card companies can't stop mass shootings

One of the things that really pushes my fringe-libertarian, move-to-Idaho, shoebox-full-of-Swiss-francs-and-a-.45 buttons is the progressive project to use the financial system to secure political goals that the Left cannot achieve through ordinary democratic means or because of such inconveniences as the Bill of Rights. The New York Times is attempting to revive one of those projects today with an essay arguing that the credit-card business should be used as a political tool for gun control.

Here’s the big news from the Times: People sometimes use credit cards to pay for the things they buy. Sometimes, they buy guns. Some of the people who buy guns sometimes use credit cards to pay for them. And some of the people who buy guns and use credit cards to pay for them commit crimes with those guns.