Walmart is the largest firearms dealer in US; has roughly one-a-week firearms incidents

[Dog Gone at Penigma]

60. carry pattern

Very simple; it is possible for someone to buy a gun at the store, and then use it at the store for a robbery.

More to the point, anyone intending to commit a robbery blends right in; WalMart differs from other major retailers in allowing concealed, and in some cases where it is widely legal, open carry. WalMart is notorious as the first place people with newly issued carry permits go to try out wandering around armed in public.

A bank robbery per se is not linked to gun sales; but it informative that with all those carrying guns present, they did not stop a crime in progress, despite all of the hype we get from the pro-gunners about how their having guns makes us all so much safer and is a crime deterrent. People with guns at WalMart do not raise a red flag, as they should in the case of a robbery, the way they do at other commercial establishments.

Rather what is instructional about this web site - including this article - is that WalMart, as a corporation that has 1 or more incidents in an average week (this is now the beginning of the 47th week of 2012) while being so pro-gun has a far higher risk of accidental or intentional harm or threat of harm to customers and staff, while having no apparent advantage in greater safety or crime deterrence.

In other words there is a significant down side in gun carriers presenting a danger to the public, but no apparent up side to it.

I probably should have spelled that out earlier, but I thought connecting those dots was pretty obvious.