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

[Dog Gone at Penigma]

200. Seriously -- what more proof do you need here?

We have the example of the Indiana WalMart selling guns they were not supposed to sell, ammo they were not supposed to sell, for reasons of public safety. You can argue all you want, but the fact is, it was just one more example, of a long line of similar examples. Further the article showed that Walmart has a problem with shoplifting that ammo (and they have a similar problem with firearms) because they frequently do not properly secure those items as promised. That attracts, arguably a bad selection of people interested in guns to their stores.

The frequency of gun incidents, some from legal carriers, some not, documents the frequency of people being armed in WalMart stores compared to a lack of those kinds of incidents in other 'big box' retailers. It demonstrates beyond any rebuttal that there is a safety issue here from those gun carriers.

I would add to that the number of dangerously mentally ill shooters who appear to rely on WalMart, like Jarrod Loughner, and like the guy with mental illness issues caught recently before he could shoot up a theater, who had planned a couple of years before to shoot up a Walmart, because he reasoned, when he ran out of ammo, he could easily access more to continue shooting at that store because of the easily accessible ammo and guns.

And then we have the guy who got a lot crazy on black Friday, shooting at a woman as he raced between WalMarts. If that isn't an example of the problem shoppers with guns who frequent Walmart, I don't know what is. It would be one thing if he were an isolated incident, but he is not.

Wallyworld has a problem, and it is one of their own making.