Walmart and Gun Control

[Shadowy Man]

The pro-gun people will now say that these companies are advertising soft targets.

 

[starwater]

As repubs often say - let the marketplace handle issues instead of overreaching government regulations. So is Walmart's kinda sorta new request to please not carry guns into the store and reduced the selling of ammunition a marketplace response to the lack of gun control? I think it is but it's token. Are there companies that are willing to withdrawal from Texas because it's too violent. Probably not. I as a business owner have had opportunities in Texas, but its very much an OBC (Old Boys Club). I have found more opportunities in Wyoming surprisingly (as a female business owner), but I digress.

I don't think the marketplace can handle the gun violence issue. There will still be too many ways to obtain guns illegally and without laws that regulate guns - more gun violence will happen at greater frequency.,

Corporations are in it for the money, and so will do whatever is good for business, which usually means whatever is popular with the people. These two things often, but not always, align. Corporations that have made recent firearm announcements like Walmart, Kroger etc. recognize the value in not scaring their customers when they're present to do shopping. Put simply, many of us will show up to do some shopping and see a gentleman strolling down aisle 5 with an AR-15 strapped to his back, are going to leave, post haste. The guy could lose his shit. The gun could go off by accident, it could draw some other kind of trouble. What if they don't let him use double coupons?! The hardcore gun fetishists however, are not huge in number, and for all their protestations of not shopping in Walmart anymore will not affect sales much.

The real issue is that the corporations own the politicians through our system of (legal, but still) bribery. So now we have trouble addressing the politicians to make changes, as is obvious by so many in the US wanting more background checks and other measures taken (Even Republicans) that do not take place. So we have to petition the corporations for those changes now. Not your House Rep and Senator. Sad, but true.

The typical Walmart shopper is a white 50 year old female. Not one to normally buy guns. So Walmart doesn’t want to scare away their shoppers.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The pro-gun people will now say that these companies are advertising soft targets.

Personally, I'm glad stores are saying no to it. Open carry is just an invitation to get your gun snatched.

 

[braces_for_impact]

So, the Repubs are always for the inevitable, guided saintly hand of the free market, until that free market shows trends they don't like. Then it's suddenly political correctness again. Got it.

 

[Worldtraveller]

So, the Repubs are always for the inevitable, guided saintly hand of the free market, until that free market shows trends they don't like. Then it's suddenly political correctness again. Got it.

So it has always been.

In AZ (which has never NOT been an open carry state), lots of small business don't allow open carry on their premises. I've seen a couple times where they turned away customers even. They always ask of they are law enforcement, and if not, they aren't allowed to patronize that business while carrying. The addition of easy to pass conceal carry 'classes' has complicated the issue.