Poll of the Day > Walmart is removing violent video game displays from stores, still selling guns

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2019/08/08/walmart-mass-shooting-stores-removing-violent-video-game-displays/1962146001/

This will certainly prevent further mass shootings.
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I wasn't gunna blow up ma neighbour, but since Walmart has 15% off on grenades... how can I not at these prices?
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They should also stop selling knives, to prevent kids from considering bringing them to school.
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Last I went to Wal-Mart, they literally just had ammo sitting out on the shelves; they don't even bother keeping them behind a counter.
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Still selling violent video games too I assume.
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Yes the videogames are clearly the ones causing problems.
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Uh yeah. Guns don't just zip around shooting people on their own. It takes someone who plays video games to want to make them do that.
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Pus_N_Pecans posted...

Last I went to Wal-Mart, they literally just had ammo sitting out on the shelves; they don't even bother keeping them behind a counter.

Some do, some don't. The Walmart I work at keeps everything under lock and key, but the Walmart in my hometown typically has things like shotgun shells and bird shot sitting out. Guns are always locked in a case, with gun locks on them, while the actual guns to be sold are in a locked room in the back of the store.
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kind9 posted...

Still selling violent video games too I assume.

yep

The world is right to fear gamers, we are the most powerful race of humanity

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didnt walmart stop selling those types of guns a long time ago?

Dark_Spiret posted...

didnt walmart stop selling those types of guns a long time ago?

We no longer sell AR-style long guns, no. Just hunting rifles, target rifles (.22s), and blackpowder rifles.
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Dark_Spiret posted...

didnt walmart stop selling those types of guns a long time ago?

they dont sell the mean guns only the ones that dont kill people
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Take that mass shooters

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That's so fucking fucked up

EvilMegas posted...

Take that mass shooters

yep. now they have no way of getting out their violent urg-

oh crap.

whoever came up with this policy should be shot in the leg or something

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Removes violent video games. But fuck all to the guns, we will just leave them here.

>_>

>_<

0.o

Fun fact: you can buy video games in pretty much every country but only one of them has a mass shooting problem. Anyone who thinks this is a step in the right direction shouldnt be allowed to vote ever again.

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Ya, I don't think we should focus on "gun" violence... just call it "weaponized" violence, so as to include knives/bats/etc and so that it's easier to normalize the statistics across countries.
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TaKun782 posted...

Removes violent video games.

It's not even the games, it's the displays and signs for the games. They're still stocking violent games for sale
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Don't blame the tools of violence while, as a society, we promote violence as a tool.
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How are people thinking it's video games fault?

You can buy video games pretty much everywhere in the world.

You can't buy guns in most of those places.

Yet only this country (of non-3rd world countries) has a mass shooting problem.

What is the difference?

EASY ACCESS TO GUNS.

And before you say...wait...it's the video games AND gun access that is the problem.

As people pro gun often say....anyone who wants to get a gun CAN get a gun, so by making them illegal, you just insure the criminals get them.

So apply that to the rest of the world and......it's obviously not video games that cause the problem.

Also.....not many places in the world where guns are illegal....have criminals using them much either (so that is false anyway).
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wolfy42 posted...

As people pro gun often say....anyone who wants to get a gun CAN get a gun, so by making them illegal, you just insure the criminals get them.

So apply that to the rest of the world and......it's obviously not video games that cause the problem.

the rest of the countries in the world do not have 400million guns already in them. they do not border violent nations (for the most part) or share continents with the largest gun makers in the world either. nor do they have the history with firearms that the US does. they also tend to have a lot more social programs, lesser wage gaps, less cut throat politics, easier health care ect. that tends to not lead into such a divide that the US suffers from leading to people turning to violence.

the US rarely had a mass shooting problem prior to columbine either which says theres a LOT more underlying problems at play here.

If good guys with guns actually stopped bad guys with guns youd think we wouldnt have had 250+ mass shootings so far in 2019

what with all the legal guns we have in the US

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"I can't believe the violent video games argument got an HD remaster" is my favourite quote ever.

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Mead posted...

If good guys with guns actually stopped bad guys with guns youd think we wouldnt have had 250+ mass shootings so far in 2019

"unfortunately" open carry is considered taboo in most of the country (if not illegal) and requires extra requirements for concealed carry so only about 15% of actual gun owners have a ccw and even thats not a guarantee theyll be carrying on that day, especially since a lot of places tend to be "gun free zones" and they can get in trouble if found out carrying in them. and a lot of the people who do tend to focus in more gun friendly pockets of the country, they arnt consistently spread out. most of those 250 "mass shootings" take place in cities where its very difficult to carry a handgun (dont tell that to criminals though).

that said it does happen--
https://crimeresearch.org/2019/05/uber-driver-in-chicago-stops-mass-public-shooting/

Dark_Spiret posted...

"unfortunately" open carry is considered taboo in most of the country

I thought we were talking about the US

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Mead posted...

I thought we were talking about the US

yes.

Dark_Spiret posted...

yes.

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