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

[Straw Man]

150. Comparable retailers?

There are no retailers comparable to Walmart. They are the largest retailer in the world. Their stores are everywhere, including poverty-stricken areas where they are the only game in town. In many towns Walmart is most emphatically where the money is and where the action is. It stands to reason that it will be a magnet for crime and the concomitant violence.

The notion that someone would choose to rob a bank in Walmart because Walmart sells firearms is insupportable. I can't even imagine the chain of reasoning that would lead to such a conclusion. Equally ludicrous is the notion that Walmart encourages open carry or is gun-friendly in any way beyond the bare fact that they sell firearms. If Walmart is particularly gun-friendly, then Starbuck's must be the freakin' NRA.

I have bought firearms in Walmart stores in the past. The process was excruciatingly slow and hostile. I was instructed in the proper completion of Form 4473 as if I were a not-too-bright recruit entering boot camp. Perhaps you have heard of the "Walmart Walk," sometimes called the "Walk of Shame," in which the sporting goods manager accompanies you to the parking lot, where he/she hands you the firearm that you could not be trusted to possess within the store. I don't know where you get these fantasies of Walmart as a gun-owner's paradise, but fantasies they are.

Other stores don't "comparably" market? Have you been to a Gander Mountain lately? How about a rural convenience store that sells camo caps, gun magazines, and hunting knives?

If we want to pick on Walmart, go after their labor practices. Then you'd have a valid point, unlike the fuzzy classist nonsense you're spouting here.