Yes. I, at least, am aware of that. But then, we’re left left with the conclusion that Walmart is making an oblique public statement about the playing of video games as a gateway occupation to violent crime (highly dubious) without accepting a loss of income that would result from their sale. This is the worst kind of hypocrisy and flimflammery.
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+10 haha
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can’t make potential customers for guns feel uncomfortable by posting signs forbidding weapons in the store… so next best thing is to ban video games… does WalMart still make musical artists re-record their stuff if lyrics are ’ obscene or objectionable’?
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They have not banned video games though… only their advertising displays were removed, not the games.
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I live in Missouri. It’s like I’m in Old Brother, Where Art Thou? and I can’t get out.
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I just had to check. Yup.
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Perfectly legal in both cases, in some states is even a crime for cops to stop them just on the basis of being armed.
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One more reason to never set foot in Walmart.
John Crawford would like a word with you.
Money Talks, morality walks.
This is WALMART we are talking about here! The same WALMART that pays it’s employees so little in wages that fully 40% of them have to apply for welfare and food stamps just to get by.
I’m POSITIVE that some bean-counter at WALMART Corporate has already done the spreadsheet to see what impact upon PROFITS a few terrorist-murdered employees and customers makes, and they have proven that it’s much more important to the shareholders to continue to sell death-machines to racist, paranoid, red-hatted morons than to not do so.
After all, it’s not like most WALMARTS have any COMPETITION after having driven out of business every other store in the area. Where else can you go shopping for cheap chinese-made crap at 2:00 PM in the afternoon in your ill-fitting pajamas?
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Most places I frequent have a sign on the door that says “No Lethal Weapons” allowed inside.
When Wyatt Earp and the famous lawmen of Dodge City, etc. were “cleaning up their towns” among the first things they did was to not allow weapons within the city. Apparently, that 2A is not as absolute nor as currently conceived as some want to believe. And I am a gun owner.
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I guess we know which product is more profitable.
That was my first thought
Walmart To Remove Violent Video Game Displays, Not Guns, From Its Stores…Until Next time
Every time, it’s somebody else’s school, it’s somebody else’s community, it’s somebody else’s town. It’s somebody else’s WALMART Until one day, you wake up and it’s not.”
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Guns don’t kill people; Video Games kill people!
It astonishes me that we went to the moon 50 years ago. Looking at the GOP today, you’d be surprised if they could count to 11.
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It just occurred to me,
A cop might be more likely to kill a black or brown kid with a video remote in his hands, than a white adult with a gun in his hands.
See, video games can kill people.
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"this action does not reflect a long-term change in our video game assortment,”
“We are not only not solving the problem, we are only temporarily not solving the problem.”
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“We’ve taken this action out of respect for the incidents of the past week, and this action does not reflect a long-term change in our video game assortment,”
From one oligarch to another?
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Have you never seen the applications and job descriptions for Walmart management and executive level jobs?
Mr. Crawford was black that’s why the cops that killed him and the guy that made the malicious 911 call all got scot free. Let’s stop pretending that colored people have the same rights as whites.
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Walmart I am sure makes tons off the ammo sexual’s like a former neighbor. He’d have at least a half dozen friends over every Saturday for “target” practice. They could not hit the barn door but they seemed to take their practice very seriously. I’d wager they fired well over a thousand rounds from the weapons they brought. Pistols, shotguns and the many many many AR15 variants as well as their beloved AK’s. Then I’d add the daily “misfired” round from the chambered, safety off weapons he’d drop while fumbling to open his mailbox. Never would use a holster or strap but had to carry a pistol, shotgun and a long gun as they made him “feel safe” as he collected his mail. Lastly he was a certified police weapons safety instructor. What fun neighbors I had.
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