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

[Dog Gone at Penigma]

63. not at all

It is gun violence which is a tyranny, which keeps us from being free.

Walmart sells guns, ammo, related equipment; it is a big addition to their profit bottom line.

Therefore they go to great lengths to be welcoming to guns and gun owners, and they don't appear to give a damn if those are legal or not legal gun carriers, so long as they make their money.

People get hurt? Doesn't bother them so long as they get their money.

People do something illegal? Doesn't bother them, so long as they make that big $ bottom line.

WalMart will always look the other way when it comes to guns, no matter what harm is done -- kind of like the extremists among pro-gunners. Reasonable people want to see background checks on all sales, mandatory NICS compliance, maintaining convicted drug users in the data base for more than a year, and limitations on things like expanded capacity magazines and assault style firearms, which have a high rate of use in mass shootings.

Many also favor insurance, similar to owning a car, for damage to others, but also that would compensate the owner if something happened to the firearms -- but that would probably require a compliance with the owner for secure storage, both to manage the risk of accident, but also to reduce the chances of theft. The upside would be that if something went horribly wrong, not only would the person harmed by it be better compensated, but the gun owner would be protected from loss and would have some assistance if needed with legal defense. It is an idea that has a lot of potential upsides for the responsible gun owner. For those who aren't, not so much.

If we went to drug testing and mental health testing as a per-requisiite to gun ownership we could also potentially screen out in advance those who like Jared Loughner or James Holmes, or that guy who wanted to shoot up another theater AND A WALMART. That would make everyone safer from schizophrenic mass shooters (including gun owners), and give greater credibility to those who passed the screening as safe. It has a significant potential for reducing violent gun incidents.

I'm sure WalMart would have no problem with setting up testing services; they are already in some cases providing flu shots, walk in clinic services, etc. so long as it could make them money with gun sales.

WalMart as part of ALEC with the NRA works this with the NRA as a business opportunity in conjunction with the gun manufacturers -- and shootings or other gun incidents, are just the cost of doing business, wracking up those profits. A few customers being hurt or killed, well, hey - they're just expendable, like all of you are, to them.