by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
In a move that was undoubtedly brought about by the recent mass killing at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, Doug McMillion, the CEO of Walmart, announced that the corporate giant would no longer sell certain types of ammunition, such as that used by assault-style weapons. McMillion also said that sales of handguns would be stopped at Walmart's Alaska stores, the only state where the company still sells handguns. And, as a final blow to the gun lobby, the Walmart CEO announced that "open-carry" will no longer be allowed in its stores.
Moments later Wayne LaPierre, the impeccably dressed CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), issued a statement condemning Walmart's new policies as "shameful" and predicting that NRA members would be taking their business elsewhere.
(LaPierre, who likes to do his own personal shopping on the NRA's corporate credit card, probably has not been in a Walmart in decades and does not realize many gun-toting Americans regard Walmart as more essential to their spiritual welfare than church. If the NRA insists on getting into a pissing contest with Walmart, it had best bring a really big umbrella!)
And, as if the news from Walmart wasn't bad enough for the NRA, yesterday Kroger also announced that it would no longer allow "open carry" in its stores. I guess when it rains, it pours - right on top of Wayne LaPierre's well-coiffed pointy little head!
It looks like corporate America may sidestep the NRA-owned Congress and begin fashioning its own public response to the national gun insanity.
A people's revolution led by Walmart - who could have possibly predicted that?
Citizen Journalist
In a move that was undoubtedly brought about by the recent mass killing at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, Doug McMillion, the CEO of Walmart, announced that the corporate giant would no longer sell certain types of ammunition, such as that used by assault-style weapons. McMillion also said that sales of handguns would be stopped at Walmart's Alaska stores, the only state where the company still sells handguns. And, as a final blow to the gun lobby, the Walmart CEO announced that "open-carry" will no longer be allowed in its stores.
Moments later Wayne LaPierre, the impeccably dressed CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), issued a statement condemning Walmart's new policies as "shameful" and predicting that NRA members would be taking their business elsewhere.
(LaPierre, who likes to do his own personal shopping on the NRA's corporate credit card, probably has not been in a Walmart in decades and does not realize many gun-toting Americans regard Walmart as more essential to their spiritual welfare than church. If the NRA insists on getting into a pissing contest with Walmart, it had best bring a really big umbrella!)
And, as if the news from Walmart wasn't bad enough for the NRA, yesterday Kroger also announced that it would no longer allow "open carry" in its stores. I guess when it rains, it pours - right on top of Wayne LaPierre's well-coiffed pointy little head!
It looks like corporate America may sidestep the NRA-owned Congress and begin fashioning its own public response to the national gun insanity.
A people's revolution led by Walmart - who could have possibly predicted that?
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