On 14 Sep 2005, [...] wrote:
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2005/09/11/halted_g
un_sales_infu riate_customers/
WAL-MART
Halted gun sales infuriate customers
By Sasha Talcott, Globe Staff | September 11, 2005
BATON ROUGE, La. -- As fearful residents rush to stock up on
guns, Wal-Mart, one of the region's biggest suppliers,
abruptly stopped selling them at 40 stores scattered
throughout the Gulf Coast.
The move infuriated some Wal-Mart customers in this fiercely
progun region,
Huh? The mayor of NO and the governor of LA are Democrats who
have been disarming survivors. Pro-gun? Or just pro-hunting gun
and anti-self defense?
some of whom said the big chain left them without protection
as the violence increased after Hurricane Katrina.
"We had a lot of chaos," said Donald Goff, who was sitting in
a white pickup outside a local Wal-Mart store. "They should be
open to sell guns. They should not be doing this to people."
Walmart has always been extremely wishy washy on RKBA. They
stopped selling pistols years ago. Must be neocons who are only
into making money on sport shooting.
Smaller stores are eagerly filling the void. Spillway
Sportsman, near Baton Rouge, sold 172 guns in one three-day
period after the hurricane, when normally it might sell 15.
One mother came in to buy her first gun after she and her two
children, ages 9 and 12, witnessed a slaying on the streets of
New Orleans, said Scott Roe, Spillway's owner.
That'll do it.
"Her comment was, 'I was a card-carrying, antigun liberal --
not anymore,' "
All it takes is an experience, eh?
Roe said. "She said, 'I'm going back home, and I am not going
back unarmed.' "
Amazing.
A Wal-Mart spokeswoman, Karen Burk, attributed the company's
decision to pull guns from the shelves to "some very fluid
circumstances and changing situations" in the region.
Translation: Lack of gonads.
She did not elaborate far beyond that. "We're
trying to take care of our customers and community and be a
responsible retailer at the same time," Burk said.
Responsible to who? Michael Moore and Diane Feinstein?
In addition to its decision to stop gun sales at 40 stores,
Wal-Mart also has placed severe restrictions on gun sales at
some other stores in the area. Executives ordered the guns
removed from their glass display cases and put into a vault
instead. At those stores, customers who want to purchase a gun
must select it through a catalog.
Burk said the retailer has no date set to return guns to the
stores.
They deserve to lose business then, and people should remember
this in the future too, and take their gun and ammo purchases
elsewhere. Hell, take all your purchases elsewhere. Who needs
'em?
Wal-Mart's decision to stop gun sales also earned it praise
from several customers, who said police would protect them
from any trouble.
LOL! Trust the government to protect you! That worked great for
those women in the Superdome who were raped, some murdered. I
bet their last thoughts were; Why isn't the government
protecting me?! I wish a had a gun!
"Why can't we get along? This is a time of crisis," said Mike
White of Kenner, La. He said people who need guns for
legitimate reasons, such as hunting, would not be buying now.
Self defense isn't "legitimate"? He must be a Democrat. Jeez.
What the hell do such people use for brain cells?
Gun sales have become a hot-button issue for Wal-Mart, the
nation's largest retailer. Filmmaker Michael Moore blasted the
store's gun sales in his documentary "Bowling for Columbine."
In January, the company agreed to pay $14.5 million to settle
a lawsuit filed by California's attorney general that accused
it of violating state gun laws.
But in post-Katrina Louisiana, a lot of anger erupted when the
retailer took guns off its shelves.
Isiah Smith said looters stole cars in his neighborhood and
broke into homes as he fled from Laplace to Baton Rouge to
escape the storm.
He said Wal-Mart should not have stopped gun sales. "People
have to protect themselves," he said.
Yeah, no *****.
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GunWoman - Armed and Safer in the USA
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