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Ars Technica founder, followed by a brief stint at WIRED. Writing in various outlets about tech, guns, money, outdoors. Currently: http://ThePrepared.com 

Austin, TX
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    Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

    Jon Stokes Retweeted Andrew Ross Sorkin

    This is not a drill. Sorkin is the consummate Wall St. insider, and NY officials have already talked up using their control over the nation's financial infrastructure to cut off lawful commerce in firearms & 2A organizing. And let's not forget Choke Point.https://twitter.com/andrewrsorkin/status/1077173003908198401 …

    Jon Stokes added,

    Andrew Ross SorkinVerified account @andrewrsorkin
    I've been working on this NYT project for months: Many of the deadliest mass shootings in the US were carried out by killers who used credit cards to buy high-powered weapons+ammunition that they couldn’t otherwise afford. No one was watching. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/24/business/dealbook/mass-shootings-credit-cards.html …
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      2. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        The no-platforming that's happening in the payments system re: speech is coming after the exercise of other lawful, constitutionally protected freedoms. What @andrewrsorkin is calling for is stunningly illiberal, and even the increasingly squishy @ACLU balks at it.

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      3. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        He straight up wants to treat gun owners and guy buyers like terrorists. It's right there in the article. He is advocating that the financial system turn its post-9/11 anti-terror infrastructure on lawful gun owners.pic.twitter.com/dNtQXT7OpF

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      4. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        To be clear, Vegas excepted (it's always the exception), most mass shooters use one or two guns because that's all you need. Are we going to cast the net that wide, where everyone who buys one or two guns gets LEO scrutiny? You may like that idea, but that is a big haystack.

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      5. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        I'm reminded of that article by that reporter from FL who was SHOCKED to learn that, by complying with all laws and not looking or acting suspiciously, he could fly with a firearm and not get arrested or shut down the airport. He was dyin for some police state intervention.

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      6. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        I know this is not a thing you're supposed to point out, & I don't typically do it b/c 90% of the time it's a red herring, but active shooter incidents are /rare/. We can't burn down what's left of our civil liberties to stop a thing that causes way fewer deaths than bicycles.

        2 replies . 22 retweets 63 likes
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      7. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        Per the FBI there were 220 people killed in active shooter incidents in 2016-2017. There are 700 to 800 bike accident deaths /a year/. I'm not saying the two are the same, but for God's sake are we really going to further illiberalize our financial system for this?

        5 replies . 17 retweets 43 likes
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      8. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        The banks' attempt at moral leadership on guns might be less risible if they weren't laundering for drug cartels (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs …), stealing from customers (https://boingboing.net/2018/04/20/2-trillion-in-assets.html …), & generally flouting the law and getting people killed (https://www.forbes.com/sites/melaniehaiken/2014/06/12/more-than-10000-suicides-tied-to-economic-crisis-study-says/#66e5007e7ae2 …) at scale

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      9. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        If the banks are so concerned about saving lives lost to American weapons, why don't we take a close look at the way the financial system enables & profits from our wars in the Middle East. Dianne Feinstein's husband, for instance, is a war profiteer.https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/War-brings-business-to-Feinstein-spouse-Blum-s-2652085.php …

        4 replies . 14 retweets 32 likes
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      10. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        So why don't we look into the way banks & hedge funds finance the murder of civilians on foreign soil, b/c that body count dwarfs the domestic active shooter body count by orders of magnitude. Not only do Sorkin types not care, they're fighting to preserve a bloody status quo!

        1 reply . 7 retweets 23 likes
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      11. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        Jon Stokes Retweeted Stephen Gutowski

        Yep.https://twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/1077248045870448640 …

        Jon Stokes added,

        Stephen GutowskiVerified account @StephenGutowski
        One last thing about this piece. It's pure tribalism. The idea of mass financial monitoring of millions of law-abiding Americans is in obvious conflict with the NYT's principles on government surveillance but they're will to ignore that because gun owners are the target. https://twitter.com/andrewrsorkin/status/1077173003908198401 …
        2 replies . 7 retweets 21 likes
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      12. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        Jon Stokes Retweeted Andrew Ross Sorkin

        So he wants to boot the entire lawful gun retail sector off the credit system b/c credit cards were used in 8 shootings in the past 10 years and 217 ppl died. This guy...https://mobile.twitter.com/andrewrsorkin/status/1077214184398573569 …

        Jon Stokes added,

        Andrew Ross SorkinVerified account @andrewrsorkin
        Replying to @andrewrsorkin @gibbyz7
        Correcting: 217 people died. Hundreds injured.
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      13. Jon Stokes‏ @jonst0kes 24 Dec 2018

        This is totally insane. If you wanted to save 217 lives over 10 years you can do it without weaponizing the financial system against an entire category of commerce you don’t like.

        5 replies . 5 retweets 32 likes
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      2. Kareem Shaya‏ @kareems 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @jonst0kes

        Leaving aside the mass surveillance dealbreakers, @andrewrsorkin is smart enough that I’m disappointed he didn’t say that base rate fallacy renders the debate moot — it's technologically impossible to build. Do the math and the odds that a flag is a false positive are >99.999%.

        1 reply . 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. Handwaving Freakoutery‏ @Freakoutery 25 Dec 2018
        Replying to @kareems @jonst0kes @andrewrsorkin

        I'd like to actually see those odds. Would make for an interesting article.

        0 replies . 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. Decentralization is the New Antitrust‏ @analyticascent 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @jonst0kes

        Decentralization is the New Antitrust Retweeted Decentralization is the New Antitrust

        He never even provided any evidence in the piece that on-credit purchases were *necessary* for the named shooters to do what they did.https://twitter.com/analyticascent/status/1077285770447089667 …

        Decentralization is the New Antitrust added,

        Decentralization is the New Antitrust @analyticascent
        Replying to @andrewrsorkin
        1. I don't even know where to begin on how misleading of an article this is, let alone how stupid the idea is of trying to use payment processors to restrict transactions of *any* kind. 🤨 --Begin Thread-- https://twitter.com/andrewrsorkin/status/1077173003908198401 …
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      1. Pro Bot Washer‏ @ProBotWasher 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @jonst0kes @MorlockP

        Did you know Sorkin was 'hired' by the NYT while in college because he was so smart? No not really, it was because his dad was a well connected lawyer at Cahill Gordon & Reindel with mega-connections in the NYC financial world.

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      1. Mike Terrence ♔‏ @mterrence1967 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @jonst0kes @MorlockP

        Having to pay for firearms in cash only? *laughs in disparate impact*

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      1. Andrew "Not Yet Lindy" Glidden‏ @asglidden 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @jonst0kes

        Well, there's always Bitcoin...

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      2. Bruce Williams‏ @bdw_indiana 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @jonst0kes

        1/ The #AntiGun crowd always believe the stick will "solve" the problem. The problem is that those that would commit crimes with firearms generally don't care what is legal and what is not; only the law-abiding firearm owner cares. The stick only becomes effective when

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      3. Bruce Williams‏ @bdw_indiana 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @bdw_indiana @jonst0kes

        2/ it is so big that it affects both criminals and law-abiding citizens alike. We should be advocating for the carrot to give legal firearms owners a quick and free method of determining if a buyer is a "proper person". Legal firearms owners don't want firearms in the hands

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      4. Bruce Williams‏ @bdw_indiana 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @bdw_indiana @jonst0kes

        3/ of criminals any more than anyone else does. The real issue is that it is inconvenient to go to a FFL to have a 4473 done and the vast majority of FFLs won't do it for free. Combine that with the legitimate worry of some firearms owners of providing the government with more

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      5. Bruce Williams‏ @bdw_indiana 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @bdw_indiana @jonst0kes

        4/ information on what and how many firearms they own, and it's pretty obvious why more 4473s don't get done. Let's create an online and free "background check" for private sales wherein the buyer puts in his information (BTW, let's forget the useless info on race and ethnic

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      6. Bruce Williams‏ @bdw_indiana 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @bdw_indiana @jonst0kes

        5/ origin that are required on the current 4473) and gets a code that can then be given to the seller or perhaps an automatic email is sent to verify he/she is a "proper person". No information on the type or number of firearms to be transferred should (or needs) to be collected.

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      7. Bruce Williams‏ @bdw_indiana 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @bdw_indiana @jonst0kes

        6/ This "background check" would be based on PUBLIC information and could/should be expanded for all Americans to use as a background check for any number of other purposes. Criminal convictions are SUPPOSED to be public record, let's actually make those records public in a

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      8. Bruce Williams‏ @bdw_indiana 24 Dec 2018
        Replying to @bdw_indiana @jonst0kes

        7/ convenient and free way so that the law-abiding (and reformed criminal) can make good use of that data. Pretty much all of the current "common sense" #GunControl proposals seek to punish the law-abiding as much as the criminal.

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