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

[Glassunion]

182. To your 3 points.

1 - I agree. If they have an issue properly selling firearms, they should not sell firearms. Period.

2 - Again I agree. If you lumped all of the Wally worlds in the US together, it would take up a land area over 4x the size of Manhattan. Super Centers alone generally generate 10,000 car trips a day, or roughly 30 million vehicles driving in and out every day. This is equivalent to about 3.7 times the population of all 5 boroughs of NYC combined. It takes over 36,000 police officers to patrol the city of NY. I think Wally world should look long and hard at their security. Personally I think that they should pay to have uniformed police officers in all of their stores 24x7.

In 2004, there were a reported 148,331 police calls across 514 Walmart stores analyzed by according to a report by Loss Prevention Magazine (pdf no longer exists online). That equates to an average of 269 calls per store. Across the US it is esemated that Wally world costs taxpayer about $77 million annually in increased police costs alone. They should be footing the bill for the security of their locations.

3 - Here is where we part ways. If you look at the incidents that were tabulated on the blog, your suggestions would have no measurable effect on Walmart at all.

For one thing, how many of the incidents listed follow your statement of "Currently, you drop your gun, or accidentally shoot someone while getting out your wallet, no problem, come back as often as you like, armed with as many guns as you like."? There were 2 incidents of neglagent discharge at Walmart. These 2 incidents are the only 2 that would most likely be effected by the policies that you suggest. Both of those two incidents, judging by the details in the article, I would have liked charges to have been filed in both cases. However, only one was arrested and will hopefully have forfited his right to own a firearm. You do not leave (evading arrest) after an incident. Period.

The vast majority of the issues listed on the website (http://newtrajectory.blogspot.com/2012/09/walmart-shootings.html) all take place in the parking lots. If you think of it like this, perhaps a better solution is to have Wally world pay for law enforcement at their sites. Walmart parking lots in the U.S. alone take up about 50 square miles, or basically a land area twice the size of Manhatten island. I think to have 24x7 uniformed police patrols in their parking lots would have a far greater effect on the crime that takes place on their property.

Personally, I'd like to see Wally world disappear. They depress the areas that they move into. They reduce retail employment by about 2.7% after they open. They lower the local retail income in some cases by almost 30%. They are a burden on taxpayers (they receive a LOT of subsidies, and get a lot of tax breaks). Overall they are irresponsible about safety in their locations. The cameras they have all over their stores are to protect them, not the shoppers. The blog that was linked in the OP failes to even mention any of the other plethora of crimes that occur at Walmarts such as: assaults, robbery, rape, car theft, vandalism, and the like. They are a crummy store, with crummy policies (from top to bottom) that are build in mostly depressed areas, that due to their size and location invite a criminal element.