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

[Glassunion]

133. Leaps of logical faith.

Making the connection, that because Walmart sells firearms, that they are somehow more prone to violence is absurd on its face.

From post 120:"When someone tracks all of the reported gun incidents at Walmart, and compiles them, it stops being anecdotal when other stores do not welcome guns and do not have similar instances week after week."

Only 50% of US Walmarts sell firarms. However this list is a compilation of all Walmarts, not just the ones that sell firearms. So the blog is attributing an instance at lets say a Walmart in sourthern CA where they do not sell firearms the the fact that another Walmart 400 miles away sells firearms? This is silly.

Also the anecdotal nature of the whole this is absurd as well. If you were to look at the rate according to your count which is about 1 a week you would have an incident rate of 0.0104 per Walmart store.

If you take assaults, shoplifting, etc... out of the picture and only look at robberies, the convienience store industry has a rate up to 0.20 and they do not sell guns. This is 19 times the rate that this anecdoatal blog shows. Without including any of the other crimes that can take place at a c-store.

It is a leap of logic where one would deduce that because Walmart sells guns, they get robbed, people get assaulted, vehicles get stolen, police shoot at drug suspects, gang shootings, people commit suicide, ect...

There are 5000 Walmarts in the US. The odds are there that sooner or later something bad will happen at one. However I will give you this: Walmart sells rifles and this is why rifles have been stolen from Walmart.