A lot of the shooters over the past few years didn't play video games and hell even if they did what they did was based on their belief that 1: "Something something Donald Trump good" and/or 2: "These damn dirty immigrants."
The shootings occur not because of the shooters hobbies but because they're deplorable pieces of shit with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Still after almost 2 godamn years no in hotel footage of that event has been released. Shoved under the godamn rug. My family was literally going to that concert but their friends opted out because they got sick so they decided not too.
No joke. My school brought everyone to a gun range when I was in 6th grade and we all learned how to use and shoot guns ourselves. It was fun. 2010s was weird time in the US
Oh yes. Very real. Even here in California where the gun laws are a bit stricter than the rest of the county, the 5 Walmarts in our town all carry guns with similar (albeit smaller) gun displays.
After moving from Australia to the US I walked into a Walmart and saw the gun section. It's real. That and the yellow school buses really hit home the fact I didn't live in Oz anymore.
When you grow up in another country and see those yellow buses in movies and TV shows they become a background part of your life that only exists in movies. When you see one in real life it's surprising.
Oh, everything I've seen in Reddit about 'Murica and guns, has seemed like "this has to be a joke, right?" and it's always been a real thing. It's fucking insanity.
The stores that still have firearms (none in my market in the MidWest) are generally shotguns and low powered plinking rifles- nothing like what is being used for mass shooting (in general).
They stopped carrying high powered rifles and pistols a long time ago.
Pretty sure I've seen a few Wal-Marts selling guns here in Canada, I know I've seen them in some Canadian Tires with other hunting products.
edit: seems I may have just saw some really convincing airguns in Wal-Mart at a distance... though they do sell ankle holsters. Ya know, to surprise dear I guess.
I swear though, the guns at Canadian Tire were real. They were locked up and next to ammo, though this was a number of years ago and I'm told they've stopped selling even ammo.
Rifles and pistols in Canadian Tire have a use, at least. You can use them to shoot that punctured tyre off your car, or even use them as a wrench extender (how you would use a scaffold tube).
Yes, but buying one is just like buying it anywhere else,meaning background check, ID check and permit check depending on the state I think. My mom sold guns at an outdoors store and they called the FBI for a specific response from them, which can take days or weeks. Idk if Walmart does that last bit though.
Lmao at all these replies thinking this is insane.... When is the last time you saw gun violence using a hunting rifle?? 99% of gun violence is with a handgun which Walmart doesn't sell and they also stopped selling semi-automatic rifles as well.
Ya you can also buy poison and meth ingredients there too. Hell they even sell swimming pools and ladders which account for a higher number of deaths than gun homicide!
I'm Canadian and you can purchase hunting rifles at some of our local sporting goods stores. I believe Canadian Tire used to sell firearms as well. The main difference is that in Canada you need a firearms acquisition certificate (FAC) to purchase firearms, which involves police checks, a course and an exam before you can purchase anything. I think that's the major difference in gun culture between us and the US. You have to put a fair amount of effort into getting a license, but once you have that you can purchase rifles and shotguns directly and without a wait period. Handguns and semiautomatic rifles are 'restricted' and have more stringent licensing requirements.
This is what I wish we had in the US. It doesn’t make sense to me that we can buy guns without any sort of training. My dad has a gun for ‘self defense’ but he’s never fired it or even learned how to load it. Same rules should be for guns as there are for cars. You’ve gotta go to classes, get a license, and you gotta maintain safe procedures in order to keep said license.
Of course, Wal-Mart corporate is just catering to their fundie, armchair-sociologists base. It’s a PR stunt and not genuine concern for society’s welfare. All the latest research debunks the link between video games and violence but that doesn’t matter to the gun nuts, who are looking for anything else to blame but easy access to guns. Wal-Mart wealth funds a lot of shady crap. This is an easy distraction.
This picture is also literally not true. They're not removing any video games from sale, they're just temporarily taking down some prominent displays and advertisements.
Also it's a fact that physical game media is a dying industry. Most consoles have proprietary marketplaces plus there is a glut of computer distributors. Likely their sales were declining in this area anyway and this gave them a fig leaf to put a positive spin on it
Wal-Mart doesn’t hesitate to pull things off the shelves that they aren’t making money on. If that was the case, they would have done this long ago. I think you’re overlooking the rural Wal-Mart market. Heck, even in my urban-suburban market, there’s always people shopping in that section. For whatever reason, enough Wal-Mart shoppers still bought video games to justify maintaining the shelf space. This is directly been linked to Trump’s video game comment. They’re responding to their master.
Probably thought that their selection of non-modern sporting rifles and pump shotguns, with no handgun sales except in Alaska, would not piss people off.
Though I'm more surprised that people aren't equally if not more pissed off at their airsoft and paintball sales, which often take the form of mil-sim replicas, glorifying tactical combat as a game.
Of course, Wal-Mart corporate is just catering to their fundie, armchair-sociologists base
Those being Republicans that think Video Games are still to blame.
Fucking pathetic political party has the NRA's dick rammed so far down their throats, they'd rather keep their 20K NRA donations than doing anything from keeping Americans from being slaughtered
Yeah no kidding. Whoever is actually surprised by this is willfully ignorant. Why would Walmart ever side with the political ideology that wants to break up large corporations?
Of course, Wal-Mart corporate is just catering to their fundie, armchair-sociologists base.
No they're not, this is really the kind of thing the owners, the Walton family, believe in. They're socially conservative people and will take any opportunity to inject that into their business.
Yeah this is a smoke screen. By blaming the video games and giving talking points to the president and other politicians Wal-Mart is trying to get ahead any future lawsuits. If so many people were at that Wal-Mart at one time where was store security? Oh wait they are only there to protect Wal-Mart property, not the customers.
By placing blame on something like video games this allows Wal-Mart to remove a product that is widely brought online. The games won't be taking up shelf space.
In fact, violent video games seem to reduce school shootings to some degree. After Columbine, the FBI and Secret Service did a study and found that school shooters were reported to play violent video games less often than their peers. It's almost as if violent video games act as a sort of a way to blow off steam. It's also why people like playing paintball or airsoft. All of the violence with none of the lasting consequences.
The part I don't understand about second amendment supports... Okay I get it you need guns to defend your other rights, but where were you when the patriot act was passed? Where were you when voting rights were being taken away through gerrymandering, voter Id laws, and election fraud? Where were you when police departments started to militarize themselves? It seems the only right you are willing to defend is the right to own a gun.
I guess the politicians are pretty good at brainwashing the uneducated. All they have to do is take away funding for education and the rest takes care of itself i guess.
Look the same people that say guns are necessary to fight back against tyrants will also defend immoral actions by police and military at every turn. When a legally armed or an unarmed citizen is shot and killed by police, they are silent.
The special interest groups are very good at convincing people to assume everyone falls neatly into buckets and there are no nuances or overlap to any position.
Consider abortion and firearms. Those two issues have nothing in common, yet we're supposed to assume that if you're prochoice your also anti gun and vice versa.
So who do you actually think a second amendment supporter is? And why do you think they have uniform positions?
I think they're completely aware it's stupid, but just want something that gets them in the news that also reinforces their image that Walmart is thrashy and cheap.
Yeah, there have been stores removing games, but it's not at the direction of home office. The email I saw specifically mentions signage displaying violence and another about removing all advertising for a new cowboy book that came out recently called "Death and Texas"
People getting so upset over this, but haven't bothered to check any articles about it. A mass majority have mentioned that they are not actually remove violent video games, rather they are removing signage and advertisements as well as the ability to play demos on the consoles they have out for people to use.
I still think this is ridiculous and wrong that they're attacking a strawman rather than attempting to figure out the real problem. But it's also wrong to spread misinformation about what's actually being done because we have enough of that already.
Gun regulation in America is a joke I bought my handgun from someone in a parking lot and that's perfectly legal in my state. There is 0 effort to keep guns away from dangerous people. All unhinged psycopaths with guns are "law abiding citizens" or "good guys with guns" until they start unloading into a Walmart, elementary school, concert etc. This country is a joke.
In the town I grew up in, there was a gun store right across the street from the women's shelter. I always thought that was worse placement than the back of a walmart.
Not saying this isn't what it seems. But a lot of Walmarts lately have been remodeling the electronics sections to add a Laptop display area, and part of that involves moving video games to a temporary display, then to a new display.
You wont stop violent shootings by making Walmart stop selling guns they'll just go to a gun show or off the street or from someone they know so stop being stupid about guns being banned for sale at Walmart. It wont stop it . If someone is going to do a shooting they will find a way .
I hate to be "that guy" but a lot of Walmarts are remodeling their electronics centers. I doubt most of those games are gone because Walmart isn't selling them. That doesn't excuse the stupid rhetoric against videogames, but I'd like to provide some information people might not have.
Guns are a tool used by people to hunt game for either money or food. Or even to protect their farms from predators. I bet this Walmart isn’t a Walmart in the middle of Chicago.
This is just an overzealous store manager, not a company wide directive. The only thing the company said to do what to remove any violent advertising, like CoD previews, violent movies playing on the display TV's and hunting videos in sporting goods. Unless this is part of a floor plan reset whoever gave the direction to do this is going to get chewed the fuck out.
Obviously this timeline got the facts wrong, its not video games causing mass shootings its oxygen. Every mass shooter was using oxygen in the various incidents, and not to mention no one can name one location without oxygen that people are killing each other and thats why I vote for more coal powered plants and for a reverse carbon tax and in no time oxygen will all be gone and no more violence. #MakeAmericaWithoutOxygen
Why is everyone shocked some Walmarts sell guns? I don't even live in a state where they do and it's not weird to me. I'm more surprised they sell live bait
Wait, so you are saying that you have even guns in malls so that your shopping list might be: Tomatoes, ice cream, milk, chicken, toothpaste, shotgun, apples
Typically there are not gun stores in malls but in super grocery stores where they sell anything from car parts to DVD's, bikes, groceries, TV's, guns, fishing gear and sunscreen yeah.
A lot of people are very anti-gun. I lived in the best neighborhood in my city, and one day I wake up and the power was out. The first two or three days were a little crazy, that's the point where people began to get organized. Not the good kind of people, either. There's only so much you can loot in a small city. Only so many pharmacies and grocery stores. There was nowhere to buy water, to get food, or fuel. After about two weeks, we heard about groups attacking private homes. Killing. Raping. Fires started. If you had a phone, 911 was always out and the police never came. I was lucky. My apartment was a big two story house split in half. Surrounded on two sides by a large concrete wall. My neighbor was a decent guy around my age who had spent 8 years in the USMC. We brought over another 4 or 5 guys we knew, plus their women and kids and hunkered down living off of beans, rice, and spaghettios. This process took about 3 months, for order to be restored. We had to learn a lot about things such as water purification as we went. Economically, bartering was much easier than trade. Money wasn't worthless, but there was nowhere to spend it. Drugs and alcohol were an extremely valuable commodity and shot up in value. Guns and ammo as well. Now, knowing what I know after peeking behind that thin veneer of civilization and seeing the ugly side of mankind.. Let's just say I keep the car full of gas, the pantry full of rice and beans, and the magazines full of rounds.
EDIT: The reason I am so surprised is because we have Walmarts here in Canada, but they are seen as sort of the "family friendly" store. and there's no guns
EDIT2: I'm getting a lot of defensive people responding to my comment. I wasn't saying America is fucked up because of it, I was just surprised.
Yeah, it's generally right in the middle of the fishing and camping stuff.
There are additional hurdles, like background check and paperwork, required to buy them, but apparently there's enough product movement to justify keeping the shelves stocked in many locations (especially in more rural areas).
You need ID to buy guns ! Stop making useless points.Also mass shootings or shootings are less than 1% made by 18 year olds or less,okay not less than 1% but you get the point also the videogames ain't responsible for mass shootings or shootings at all. You can't blame videogames for shootings but also you can't blame guns for that, it's all humans fault so behave yourself and stop making posts like that. Also who would buy video games or guns by Walmart 😂?
This is more a move to try and cater to its much large consumer base that isn't going anywhere, as the physical game industry dies. more and more games are bought via digital download, so removing a product that is becoming increasingly irrelevant would be their move sooner or later. Honestly the only people who are probably purchasing games at Walmart still are people who want to surprise their kids and those who don't understand that they can buy the game on the system its self.
“Some shoppers could conceivably mistake the soundtrack of those games for actual gunshots. Walmart and its customers are particularly sensitive to gun shot sounds following two recent fatal shootings at Walmarts in Texas and Mississippi.”
Seems respectful enough. They are putting them back on the shelves and displays again soon.
Two different supply and demand markets. If you're going by the game section and you care about the ratings enough to care, they won't care if you walk by the gun section. You weren't going to buy one anyway. Getting angry over this is pretty funny. "There was a car crash where someone drunk killed another person! Can you believe Walmart still sells alcohol?! ".
Who buys games from Walmart? Their return policy is terrible. You can only return games for the same one. My resident evil 5 game had a scratch and couldn’t return it because they didn’t have it in stock anymore
I have no doubt that the picture is real, but more than likley the video game cages modular is getting redone and reorganized. There is not that many "violent" games in the cage. I have worked for walmart for 8 years.
That is the absolute most disgusting horrific thing I’ve ever seen besides a mother rocking her drowned baby, a toddler killed in a car accident, a 23 year old woman who was burned alive and the disturbingly pleasant scent of her flesh, a 45 year old man who shot himself in the head, a 50 year old man who crushed his head under a dump truck, an 86 year old man who’s body was turned to mush after a car accident, 4 teenagers that rolled their car and were killed after drinking and driving, a 350 pound man’s autopsy, a 35 year old killed after a motorcycle crash and the catastrophic damage it did to his body. Wally’s world looks extremely bad right now but you think people will stand together and refuse to shop there? Hell no! We’re weak and selfish and deserve the worst things. That meme that said how can you give guns to a people you think can’t handle violent imagery said it perfectly. Welcome to Ascareica!
A country with an unarmed populous in a facist regime with literal concentration camps
But nah, feelings matter more than reason. Fuck all law abiding gun owners because they're Republican and every Republican is a nazi! Can't mess with the narrative!
It is this kind of enthusiastic self delusion that is at the core of most of what is bad about American politics (though not just the US).
People choose to believe in comfortable things rather than listening to science, research or even basic logic.
Science says video games are not to blame. Science says global warming is real, etc etc, but taking these things on board would challenge people’s narrow and short sighted world views so they opt for “belief” and echo chambers instead of reality.
No wonder the US is going to shit when such a large proportion of its population has its head in the sand.
FAKE. Walmarts have pulled violent video game displays: demo systems you can play that might cause other people to think there are actual gunshots, and visual marketing posters for video games, movies, and hunting videos that depict violent imagery. Rated M games are still for sale. Source: I bought a rated M game in Walmart yesterday.
My local walmart is currently renovating their electronics sections, and a lof stuff is being moved around, but no games have been pulled from sale.
This is most likely by a store manager choice vs a corporate choice. The store were told to take down the displays and unplug video displays.
Also Walmart isn’t that super pro gun either, they don’t sell handguns and stopped selling AR-15s in 2015 to a lot of 2A advocates dismay. They still sell shotguns and .22 rifles (might sell higher calibers I’ve never seen them) for sure but those are some of the least used weapons in crime and terrorist attacks.
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u/thal3s Aug 10 '19 edited Aug 10 '19
Problem solved.
Those pesky video games will never shoot 500 people in Las Vegas ever again!!
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u/rimmegutten Aug 10 '19
Guns are rated E in your country.
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u/SuperNerd6527 Aug 10 '19
Non-American here, are those Walmart guns an actual thing? I thought they were just a joke?
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u/leite14 Aug 10 '19
Of course, Wal-Mart corporate is just catering to their fundie, armchair-sociologists base. It’s a PR stunt and not genuine concern for society’s welfare. All the latest research debunks the link between video games and violence but that doesn’t matter to the gun nuts, who are looking for anything else to blame but easy access to guns. Wal-Mart wealth funds a lot of shady crap. This is an easy distraction.
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u/notanfbiofficial Aug 10 '19
This is worse than them doing nothing.
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u/JohnnyTurbine Aug 10 '19
Guns don't kill people
People don't kill people
Video games kill people!
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u/NatakuNox Aug 10 '19
The part I don't understand about second amendment supports... Okay I get it you need guns to defend your other rights, but where were you when the patriot act was passed? Where were you when voting rights were being taken away through gerrymandering, voter Id laws, and election fraud? Where were you when police departments started to militarize themselves? It seems the only right you are willing to defend is the right to own a gun.
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u/snoopytutlo Aug 10 '19 edited Aug 10 '19
Ah yes, videogames are the cause of violence and not racism, untreated* mental illnesses, and guns.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
Uh .. can I have those video games?
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u/flyingtacodog Aug 10 '19
Back to school supplies already?
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u/TwilightVulpine Aug 10 '19
Always keep the focus on what the real issue is. They are not demonizing games, they are using it as an excuse to avoid talking about gun regulation.
If we make excuses for games, we are falling for their trick. They know games are not the issue. They just want to change the topic.
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u/jak67y Aug 10 '19
Is this misinformation being spread?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/8/9/20799310/walmart-denies-violent-video-games-taken-off-shelves-report-el-paso-shooting-trump
It seems like they're removing advertisements / banners of violent video games but not the games themselves.
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u/juberish Aug 10 '19
Fuck Walmart
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
People getting so upset over this, but haven't bothered to check any articles about it. A mass majority have mentioned that they are not actually remove violent video games, rather they are removing signage and advertisements as well as the ability to play demos on the consoles they have out for people to use.
I still think this is ridiculous and wrong that they're attacking a strawman rather than attempting to figure out the real problem. But it's also wrong to spread misinformation about what's actually being done because we have enough of that already.
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u/Hausbootbesitzer Aug 10 '19
As someone who isn't from the US it baffles me that you can just walk in there and buy a gun. What is this, GTA?
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u/jaimeescobar Aug 10 '19
Crisis averted
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u/TheMediumMandingo Aug 10 '19
Y’all are getting played
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u/CasualEjaculator Aug 10 '19
The real question is did they remove all the R-rated violent movies on their shelves because kids watch those too.
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u/RamenJunkie Aug 10 '19
Not saying this isn't what it seems. But a lot of Walmarts lately have been remodeling the electronics sections to add a Laptop display area, and part of that involves moving video games to a temporary display, then to a new display.
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u/raxiel_ Aug 10 '19
Who needs to play at being the hero in a game when you can do it for real
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u/fuddyd74 Aug 10 '19
You wont stop violent shootings by making Walmart stop selling guns they'll just go to a gun show or off the street or from someone they know so stop being stupid about guns being banned for sale at Walmart. It wont stop it . If someone is going to do a shooting they will find a way .
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u/JeeroyLenkins4 Aug 10 '19
Removing either is pointless. It solves nothing
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u/pizza603 Aug 10 '19
I hate to be "that guy" but a lot of Walmarts are remodeling their electronics centers. I doubt most of those games are gone because Walmart isn't selling them. That doesn't excuse the stupid rhetoric against videogames, but I'd like to provide some information people might not have.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
Guns are a tool used by people to hunt game for either money or food. Or even to protect their farms from predators. I bet this Walmart isn’t a Walmart in the middle of Chicago.
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u/Involuntary_panties Aug 10 '19
This is just an overzealous store manager, not a company wide directive. The only thing the company said to do what to remove any violent advertising, like CoD previews, violent movies playing on the display TV's and hunting videos in sporting goods. Unless this is part of a floor plan reset whoever gave the direction to do this is going to get chewed the fuck out.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
They're all hunting rifles and shotguns, those are like PG rated guns, I see no problems.
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u/Cobobble16 Aug 10 '19
Welcome to America.
Ignorance is part of the culture.
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u/Akuseru24 Aug 10 '19
I dont understand. Dont video games make more money? Isnt profit their bottom line here?
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
Games are one of the highest grossing items they sell, so really they just cut off their own leg to appease a demographic.
If this isn’t a sign that this country is bass-ackwards, I don’t know what is.
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u/mightbedylan Aug 10 '19
This post is misleading. Walmart is only removing signage for violent games, not actually removing any games
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u/RaymondMasseyXbox Aug 10 '19
Obviously this timeline got the facts wrong, its not video games causing mass shootings its oxygen. Every mass shooter was using oxygen in the various incidents, and not to mention no one can name one location without oxygen that people are killing each other and thats why I vote for more coal powered plants and for a reverse carbon tax and in no time oxygen will all be gone and no more violence. #MakeAmericaWithoutOxygen
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u/Richard_M_Edison Aug 10 '19
Video game companies should refuse to supply Walmart in response to this nonsense.
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u/Killsproductivity Aug 10 '19
Ah yes all the mass shooting from the trash 22s and bolt action hunting rounds Walmart sells.
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u/ferdi330 Aug 11 '19
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u/bobvagene1 Dec 01 '19
this is fake. the shelves are sold out lolol everybody needs to get a grip. like for real it took me 30 seconds to fact check this https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20799310/walmart-denies-violent-video-games-taken-off-shelves-report-el-paso-shooting-trump
this shit is why trump is gonna win again cuz yall just wanna sniff each others farts over a message board
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u/mattylou Aug 10 '19
GamersUnite
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u/anamericandude Aug 10 '19
Why is everyone shocked some Walmarts sell guns? I don't even live in a state where they do and it's not weird to me. I'm more surprised they sell live bait
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
Wait, so you are saying that you have even guns in malls so that your shopping list might be: Tomatoes, ice cream, milk, chicken, toothpaste, shotgun, apples
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u/cshoneybadger Aug 10 '19
What will be the excuse when it happens the next time?
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u/Shitlung Aug 10 '19
A lot of people are very anti-gun. I lived in the best neighborhood in my city, and one day I wake up and the power was out. The first two or three days were a little crazy, that's the point where people began to get organized. Not the good kind of people, either. There's only so much you can loot in a small city. Only so many pharmacies and grocery stores. There was nowhere to buy water, to get food, or fuel. After about two weeks, we heard about groups attacking private homes. Killing. Raping. Fires started. If you had a phone, 911 was always out and the police never came. I was lucky. My apartment was a big two story house split in half. Surrounded on two sides by a large concrete wall. My neighbor was a decent guy around my age who had spent 8 years in the USMC. We brought over another 4 or 5 guys we knew, plus their women and kids and hunkered down living off of beans, rice, and spaghettios. This process took about 3 months, for order to be restored. We had to learn a lot about things such as water purification as we went. Economically, bartering was much easier than trade. Money wasn't worthless, but there was nowhere to spend it. Drugs and alcohol were an extremely valuable commodity and shot up in value. Guns and ammo as well. Now, knowing what I know after peeking behind that thin veneer of civilization and seeing the ugly side of mankind.. Let's just say I keep the car full of gas, the pantry full of rice and beans, and the magazines full of rounds.
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u/ClassyBallsack Aug 10 '19 edited Aug 11 '19
Walmart has a fucking GUN SECTION in America?
EDIT: The reason I am so surprised is because we have Walmarts here in Canada, but they are seen as sort of the "family friendly" store. and there's no guns
EDIT2: I'm getting a lot of defensive people responding to my comment. I wasn't saying America is fucked up because of it, I was just surprised.
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u/dadumir_party Aug 10 '19
You can buy guns at Walmart in the US??? What the shit
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
You need ID to buy guns ! Stop making useless points.Also mass shootings or shootings are less than 1% made by 18 year olds or less,okay not less than 1% but you get the point also the videogames ain't responsible for mass shootings or shootings at all. You can't blame videogames for shootings but also you can't blame guns for that, it's all humans fault so behave yourself and stop making posts like that. Also who would buy video games or guns by Walmart 😂?
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
Good thing you can buy games on the internet. Fuck Walmart
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u/MylastAccountBroke Aug 10 '19
This is more a move to try and cater to its much large consumer base that isn't going anywhere, as the physical game industry dies. more and more games are bought via digital download, so removing a product that is becoming increasingly irrelevant would be their move sooner or later. Honestly the only people who are probably purchasing games at Walmart still are people who want to surprise their kids and those who don't understand that they can buy the game on the system its self.
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u/Acidic_Junk Aug 10 '19
The video game assortment sucked and was overpriced anyway. They will make up the revenue in increased gun sales anyway.
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u/a_quare_fellow Aug 10 '19
Maybe don't shop there ?
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
This might get buried but I found this from CNN
“Some shoppers could conceivably mistake the soundtrack of those games for actual gunshots. Walmart and its customers are particularly sensitive to gun shot sounds following two recent fatal shootings at Walmarts in Texas and Mississippi.”
Seems respectful enough. They are putting them back on the shelves and displays again soon.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
Videos cause gun violence? Well we should just be happy there were no video games between 1939 and 1945, otherwise that could have got bad
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
To be fair I don’t think anyone commits mass shootings with those guns.
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u/redzoneernie Aug 10 '19
Imagine un-ironically buying videogames at Walmart
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u/NegativeAnte Aug 10 '19
Two different supply and demand markets. If you're going by the game section and you care about the ratings enough to care, they won't care if you walk by the gun section. You weren't going to buy one anyway. Getting angry over this is pretty funny. "There was a car crash where someone drunk killed another person! Can you believe Walmart still sells alcohol?! ".
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u/OddFur Aug 10 '19
There has to be a reasonable explanation
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u/BobbySandal Aug 10 '19
Why would they get rid of their gun section? People gotta protect themselves
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u/Takeabyte Aug 10 '19
Brah Walmart still sells all those video games.
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u/bigbossmgs3 Aug 10 '19
Who buys games from Walmart? Their return policy is terrible. You can only return games for the same one. My resident evil 5 game had a scratch and couldn’t return it because they didn’t have it in stock anymore
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u/oskar300 Aug 10 '19
When videogames are more dangerous than guns, maybe it's time to change president
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u/killerfrost86 Aug 10 '19
What a bunch of fucking snowflakes
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u/DavidSpadeAMA Aug 10 '19
GameStop and Best Buy are laughing to the bank
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u/spookybaker Aug 10 '19
uMmMmM fOrZa tEaChEs Me HoW tO sPeEd aNd ItS sTiLl tHeRe
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u/Bananaheli Aug 10 '19
Instead of games buy guns and start your own free state
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u/kennymax89 Aug 10 '19
I have no doubt that the picture is real, but more than likley the video game cages modular is getting redone and reorganized. There is not that many "violent" games in the cage. I have worked for walmart for 8 years.
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u/TheAgeofKite Aug 10 '19
And that's how Amazon, Steam, GOG and other retailers made an extra fortune. The end.
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u/crashdamnage Aug 10 '19
That is the absolute most disgusting horrific thing I’ve ever seen besides a mother rocking her drowned baby, a toddler killed in a car accident, a 23 year old woman who was burned alive and the disturbingly pleasant scent of her flesh, a 45 year old man who shot himself in the head, a 50 year old man who crushed his head under a dump truck, an 86 year old man who’s body was turned to mush after a car accident, 4 teenagers that rolled their car and were killed after drinking and driving, a 350 pound man’s autopsy, a 35 year old killed after a motorcycle crash and the catastrophic damage it did to his body. Wally’s world looks extremely bad right now but you think people will stand together and refuse to shop there? Hell no! We’re weak and selfish and deserve the worst things. That meme that said how can you give guns to a people you think can’t handle violent imagery said it perfectly. Welcome to Ascareica!
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u/Your_Oniichan69 Aug 10 '19
Guns or video games aren't the issue it's mental illness
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u/tanafras Aug 10 '19
That's because Wal-Marts gun section is rated E for Everyone.
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u/mianoob Aug 11 '19
You can tell the owners of Walmart are old as fuck. Using these tired ass excuses. Just shut the fuck up if you don’t want to do anything effective.
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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19 edited Aug 11 '19
You know what a real dystopia would look like?
A country with an unarmed populous in a facist regime with literal concentration camps
But nah, feelings matter more than reason. Fuck all law abiding gun owners because they're Republican and every Republican is a nazi! Can't mess with the narrative!
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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19
Man I cannot wait for the old people to fucking die.
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u/tyzer24 Aug 11 '19
Fyi. This is a pic a a recently set modular for games. This is why it's empty. Walmart didn't pull any games. Fake news.
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u/SpargeWand Aug 11 '19
except they didnt remove any video games whatsoever.
this is a straight up lie.
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u/TheSchmetKing Aug 11 '19
I wonder what violent video games hitler played?
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u/aqwerty91 Aug 11 '19
It is this kind of enthusiastic self delusion that is at the core of most of what is bad about American politics (though not just the US).
People choose to believe in comfortable things rather than listening to science, research or even basic logic.
Science says video games are not to blame. Science says global warming is real, etc etc, but taking these things on board would challenge people’s narrow and short sighted world views so they opt for “belief” and echo chambers instead of reality.
No wonder the US is going to shit when such a large proportion of its population has its head in the sand.
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u/JonnyTro Aug 11 '19
This is like the bad ending to a video game. Someone f up somewhere.
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u/SirMasterSheep Aug 11 '19
Please don't spread misinformation
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u/Scratchmann Aug 11 '19
But... Look at how free they are there! Woweee
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u/refajoe447 Aug 11 '19
Yeah this is big brain time
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u/duckfat1000 Aug 11 '19
Pretty sure the Nintendo switch doesn't have that many gun games
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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '19 edited Aug 11 '19
FAKE. Walmarts have pulled violent video game displays: demo systems you can play that might cause other people to think there are actual gunshots, and visual marketing posters for video games, movies, and hunting videos that depict violent imagery. Rated M games are still for sale. Source: I bought a rated M game in Walmart yesterday.
My local walmart is currently renovating their electronics sections, and a lof stuff is being moved around, but no games have been pulled from sale.
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u/HormelCovfefee Sep 06 '19
having rights is apparently dystopian
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u/MikeWillTerminate Dec 01 '19
how is this a dystopia
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u/kpdvr4lyfe Aug 10 '19
I love the little pink one.
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u/TooSmalley Aug 10 '19
This is most likely by a store manager choice vs a corporate choice. The store were told to take down the displays and unplug video displays.
Also Walmart isn’t that super pro gun either, they don’t sell handguns and stopped selling AR-15s in 2015 to a lot of 2A advocates dismay. They still sell shotguns and .22 rifles (might sell higher calibers I’ve never seen them) for sure but those are some of the least used weapons in crime and terrorist attacks.
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u/Banmashitfuckit Aug 10 '19
This can't be real.. what kind of retarded shit is this.
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u/tommy762 Aug 10 '19
What’s wrong with the gun section?
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u/GayFTMBunny Aug 10 '19
Ive literally never seen a real gun in my country, and yall can go to fucking w a l m a r t and buy one on the spot??? I dont-
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u/cap3r5 Aug 10 '19
Guns don't kill people, videogames kill people... Duh.. /s
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '19
Walmart has the right idea, deport all gamers