Current Events > Breaking: Walmart halts most videogame sales following shootings

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Antifar
08/09/19 7:39:07 PM
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Huge swaths of America are detached from reality.
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SquirrelyDan
08/09/19 7:40:12 PM
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Antifar posted...
Huge swaths of America are detached from reality.

Absolutely.
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ModLogic
08/09/19 7:40:50 PM
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guns dont kill people
vidya gaems kill peopul

fucking gun nut logic
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bevan306
08/09/19 7:44:54 PM
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it's not fake news. This was just someone at walmart being incompetent
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Edgioencarshela
08/09/19 7:45:25 PM
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They wanted someone to do something in response to the shooting. Wal Mart did something and people complain that they did something. No win situation here.
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SquirrelyDan
08/09/19 7:46:14 PM
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bevan306 posted...
it's not fake news. This was just someone at walmart being incompetent

The fake news report was fake news? I got double dipped in bullshit! This was on my Bing news feed earlier.
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bevan306
08/09/19 7:49:44 PM
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SquirrelyDan posted...
bevan306 posted...
it's not fake news. This was just someone at walmart being incompetent

The fake news report was fake news? I got double dipped in bullshit!


fake news is about deliberately spreading lies. Unless you think ign and walmart conspired to create this story, then conspired to correct it, it's not a fake news story. It's a story of someone being bad at their job
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Edgioencarshela
08/09/19 7:53:27 PM
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DuranOfForcena posted...
Edgioencarshela posted...
They wanted someone to do something in response to the shooting. Wal Mart did something and people complain that they did something. No win situation here.

lol is this a real post? people are complaining because what they chose to do in response to the shootings is remove videogame signage and demos, something that has absolutely nothing to do with the shootings. the win situation here would be if they did the right thing and stopped selling guns and ammo.

How would that be the right thing? 99.99% of gun owners never murder people.
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COVxy
08/09/19 7:55:48 PM
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bevan306 posted...
SquirrelyDan posted...
bevan306 posted...
it's not fake news. This was just someone at walmart being incompetent

The fake news report was fake news? I got double dipped in bullshit!


fake news is about deliberately spreading lies. Unless you think ign and walmart conspired to create this story, then conspired to correct it, it's not a fake news story. It's a story of someone being bad at their job


I think gamers being hypersensitive to the issue probably contributed to the report going out without much fact checking.

"Not muh videyagames!" It's almost as bad as gun owners, tbh.
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Smashingpmkns
08/09/19 7:58:59 PM
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Imagine posting on gamefaqs.gamespot.com and defending this lol
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
08/09/19 8:01:26 PM
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Video games? Really? They're the cause of all these mass shootings? Not the AK-47s, AR-15s, or other weapons of war that are often used to rain down bullets on people?

Pulling video games in an apparent overreaction does not explain why mass shootings are uniquely American.
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Lil_Bit83
08/09/19 8:05:10 PM
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Weirdm i saw plenty of video games yesterday at ours.
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UnholyMudcrab
08/09/19 8:07:24 PM
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@solosnake

It's probably time to close this topic so the people who don't read will stop misleading themselves
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legendarylemur
08/09/19 8:11:49 PM
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This is more in the sense of when the Kyoani attack happened and they didn't air the ep for the firefighter show due to depictions of flame out of respect of the event.

Tbh, this is more blown up due to recent fad in discussions. I think this is standard procedure and isn't permanent

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Edgioencarshela
08/09/19 8:13:59 PM
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DuranOfForcena posted...
Edgioencarshela posted...
DuranOfForcena posted...
Edgioencarshela posted...
They wanted someone to do something in response to the shooting. Wal Mart did something and people complain that they did something. No win situation here.

lol is this a real post? people are complaining because what they chose to do in response to the shootings is remove videogame signage and demos, something that has absolutely nothing to do with the shootings. the win situation here would be if they did the right thing and stopped selling guns and ammo.

How would that be the right thing? 99.99% of gun owners never murder people.

source?

400 million guns in America, about 10K gun deaths per year.
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uwnim
08/09/19 8:14:29 PM
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It is very possible some stores got confused and did do that.

This probably would legitimately happen if someone did a mass shooting using video games as ammunition. <__<
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uwnim
08/09/19 8:15:18 PM
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Edgioencarshela posted...
DuranOfForcena posted...
Edgioencarshela posted...
DuranOfForcena posted...
Edgioencarshela posted...
They wanted someone to do something in response to the shooting. Wal Mart did something and people complain that they did something. No win situation here.

lol is this a real post? people are complaining because what they chose to do in response to the shootings is remove videogame signage and demos, something that has absolutely nothing to do with the shootings. the win situation here would be if they did the right thing and stopped selling guns and ammo.

How would that be the right thing? 99.99% of gun owners never murder people.

source?

400 million guns in America, about 10K gun deaths per year.

Thats more guns than people, so that doesnt really prove anything.
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Manocheese
08/09/19 8:17:07 PM
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They targeted gamers.
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Behaviorism
08/09/19 8:21:09 PM
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Strider102 posted...
I tried once. Was waiting 10 minutes until I said screw it.
"I can check you out back here sir". You can't even carry the game around with you. I can carry around items 4 times the price, but not this video game

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Rika_Furude
08/09/19 8:30:51 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
America is so wacko. Like, you still sell guns which are an actual legit leading cause of mass shootings. Yet you care more about video games and a nipple in the media. Its like bizzarro world over there

Australia is one of the worst nations on Earth for banning video games...

Nope
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Dark_Spiret
08/09/19 8:42:02 PM
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uwnim posted...
Thats more guns than people, so that doesnt really prove anything.
its an impossible statistic to get, but lets assume 1 person killing one person so 11000 (this also includes justifiable shootings of which its already skewed). theres an estimated 100million gun owners in the US so that means yeah about 99.99% dont kill anyone with their guns. now if you want to say those who shoot others regardless of killing or not (be it themselves accidentally or otherwise) then youre looking at 100k incidents which is 99.9%. and these are the worst case scenarios, the actual percentages are going to be much higher since a lot of the time multiple people tend to get shot by one person with one gun.
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Jiek_Fafn
08/09/19 8:49:46 PM
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Gamestop board members are probably weeping in joy at this news.
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mooreandrew58
08/09/19 8:53:37 PM
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Sunburst posted...
More money for Gamestop.


Came in to say i bet gamestop is loving this. Especially on areas where i live where your choices are literally them or walmart if you dont want to make purchases online.
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HylianFox
08/09/19 9:07:55 PM
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Edgioencarshela posted...
They wanted someone to do something in response to the shooting. Wal Mart did something and people complain that they did something. No win situation here.


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pikachupwnage
08/09/19 9:10:00 PM
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If true...

Fuck Walmart. Beyond idiotic and playing right into the cowards scapegoating videogames.
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UnholyMudcrab
08/09/19 9:12:18 PM
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Cheater87
08/09/19 10:40:25 PM
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Will T and M games be see as too much of a risk to stock and only E10 and E games be allowed to be sold? Kind of like Germany with 18+ rated games, taboo to show in store, maybe ask for it from behind the counter in a brown bag.

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Skye Reynolds
08/09/19 10:46:22 PM
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CADE FOSTER
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Solar_Crimson
08/09/19 11:16:08 PM
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Axiom posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
America is so wacko. Like, you still sell guns which are an actual legit leading cause of mass shootings. Yet you care more about video games and a nipple in the media. Its like bizzarro world over there

You're literally from a backwards country that actually bans video games. Shut the fuck up and sit in a corner while the big boys talk and cease your infantile trolling

He's not wrong, though.

Quicksilver posted...
Has anyone ever bought games from wal mart the last time I was in a wal mart they had all the games locked behind a glass case and you had to find the right sales associate to open the case and get your game. But it couldn't be just any associate it had to be the one with the key that opened the game case. It was a real hassle.

I bought my copy of Dragon Quest VIII 3DS there not too long ago.

But it was an on-the-whim purchase; usually, I avoid Walmart as much as possible.
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Solar_Crimson
08/09/19 11:17:27 PM
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Edgioencarshela posted...
DuranOfForcena posted...
Edgioencarshela posted...
They wanted someone to do something in response to the shooting. Wal Mart did something and people complain that they did something. No win situation here.

lol is this a real post? people are complaining because what they chose to do in response to the shootings is remove videogame signage and demos, something that has absolutely nothing to do with the shootings. the win situation here would be if they did the right thing and stopped selling guns and ammo.

How would that be the right thing? 99.99% of gun owners never murder people.

99.99% of gamers never murder people. You also can't kill anyone with a video game.
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CADE FOSTER
08/09/19 11:23:30 PM
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The_OD
08/10/19 12:31:02 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
you still sell guns which are an actual legit leading cause of mass shootings

got a source? otherwise you are just talking out of your ass. Guns are inanimate objects. I have yet to see a gun get up and start shooting people.

I've had my current gun for 7 years now. It's never told me that it wants to go shoot up a store or anyting else. I'm trained to use it. I hope i never have to fire it at a living breathing individual. I play violent video games, that have never made me wanna go shoot up a walmart.

video games, and the availability of guns have no commonality with mass shootings.
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RickyTheBAWSE
08/10/19 12:32:08 AM
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I'm pretty giddy with excitement that shootings will be down thanks to Wal-Mart.
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The_OD
08/10/19 12:41:05 AM
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Solar_Crimson posted...
You also can't kill anyone with a video game.

technically you could. with a phyical game you could slit someone's throat if its a CD. i'm sure there's a way to kill someone with a cartridge too. But I digress.
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21WIVES_CHILL
08/10/19 12:43:04 AM
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Another reason for Amazon to win over Walmart.
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RockLee94
08/10/19 1:22:52 AM
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This is just PR. Once the new big AAA game comes out like Borderlands or COD they'll be back.

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bevan306
08/10/19 1:30:01 AM
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can you guys like, read past a topic title
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pres_madagascar
08/10/19 1:34:54 AM
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Feetish posted...
Videogames are bad. Guns are good.

Right, got it.

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konokonohamaru
08/10/19 1:35:41 AM
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bevan306 posted...
can you guys like, read past a topic title

You're asking a bit much
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TheMikh
08/10/19 1:36:30 AM
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jack thompson's america
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MuayThai85
08/10/19 1:43:05 AM
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Axiom posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
America is so wacko. Like, you still sell guns which are an actual legit leading cause of mass shootings. Yet you care more about video games and a nipple in the media. Its like bizzarro world over there

You're literally from a backwards country that actually bans video games. Shut the fuck up and sit in a corner while the big boys talk and cease your infantile trolling


He's not wrong. Rika is a shitty troll sometimes but he isn't wrong this time.
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Banjo2553
08/10/19 1:45:23 AM
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They're targeting the wrong subject for this considering, at the same time, they're still freely selling guns and ammunition.
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008Zulu
08/10/19 1:49:15 AM
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Banjo2553 posted...
They're targeting the wrong subject for this considering, at the same time, they're still freely selling guns and ammunition.

Walmart makes more from gun sales than videogames.
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mooreandrew58
08/10/19 2:32:45 AM
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bevan306 posted...
can you guys like, read past a topic title


Im not going to be honest but what is it? That they arent removing the games but just thr advertisements for them and I think removing the games from the display? Heard that in another topic. Still could hurt their sells and as my only post said more or less bet game stop is happy about it. This is bad pr for walmart and game stop stands to capitalize on it.
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EternalDivide
08/10/19 3:11:11 AM
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Best thing to happen to Gamestop in a while.
Not that I buy games or anything else for that matter from the pit of humanity that is Walmart. But that's really stupid on their part.
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