Walmart Workers Plan Walkout to Protest Gun Sales

[G_j]

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/7/headlines/walmart_workers_plan_walkout_to_protest_gun_sales

Meanwhile, Walmart workers are expected to walk out today to protest the company’s sale of guns and ammunition following the massacre at the El Paso Walmart and a shooting at a Mississippi Walmart last week that killed two employees. In a Change.org petition by the Walmart Walkout campaign, organizers address CEO Doug McMillon and write, “We value Walmart and our fellow associates, but we are no longer willing to contribute our labor to a company that profits from the sale of deadly weapons. … We urge our leadership to cease the sale of all firearms and ammunition, ban the public open and concealed carry of weapons on company property and in all stores, and cease WALPAC donations to NRA backed -A/A+ politicians.”

[BigMin28]

1. I have been trying

To get my Mother to not shop at Walmart for years. She found out Sunday that they have an open carry policy here in Texas, that did it!

[sir pball]

2. Ok, so open carry policies aside,

Walmart doesn't sell handguns or assault rifles, just hunting rifles and shotguns. Which are legal pretty much around the world, admittedly with stronger regulations.

I fail to see a problem with that.

[BigMin28]

3. My issues with Walmart

Go far beyond guns.

[customerserviceguy]

4. Mine, too

They're destroying small town America, one place at a time.