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

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188. Before divvying up the "facts," this one stands out: I was responding to Graham4...

(2) It is your responsibility to show some dynamic of "attraction" other than the same force field that by your reckoning must snag shoppers at Academy Sports and Outdoors, Cabelas, and other big box retailers. And you certainly haven't stated the significance of this: "You haven't disproved the fact that WalMart attracts gun owners, and makes a lot of money off of doing so." Remember: It is your responsibility show how (if true) it is significant. (You may want to investigate what the rates of crime are at these other big boxes; perhaps WalMart has other characteristics which make it pop up on the controller-prohibitionist radar screen, such as social or ideological prejudice.)

(3) As well, what is the significance of: "despite the high frequency of gun carry in WalMart, that no one has stopped a crime by using their personal weapon." Again, you must provide the facts to support a commonly-used straw man that self-defense is some kind of social policy. No, gun carrying is eminently an individual choice.

(4) You may have something with WalMart's security problems, though you aren't specific. As to marketing, gun sellers are like anyone else who sells: They market. What's your point?

(5) You need to provide something in the way of evidence when you state: "...you have a lot of people who are carrying guns in large retail shopping facilities," and further how this is a "danger" to others.

Facts are neither friend or foe, it's the significance one draws or strangles from them.