Saturday, November 29, 2014

A Trip To Walmart For A Blackout BlackFriday Look

   First let me start with a little on me, and my views if you  don't already know them. I am a 44 year young white guy . I support Gun Owner rights, and am a life long gun owner, and hunter. I believe in responsible retail of guns, and gun related products. I believe that any retailer should be able to sell these items so long as they conduct themselves in accordance with the laws of the state the retail site is in. Privet sales from person to person should as well comply with those rules . I don't think we need a list of registered guns available for buglers to use in finding houses to break into and put more guns on the streets. I believe open and conceal carry is a right and needs no permit . This is yet another list for crooks use to find guns to steal and sell. 
  Now all that said lets talk retailer responsibility and how some retailers prove the anti-gun lobby right .  I took my son to the Walmart located in Canal Winchester Ohio on black Friday. He has a prepaid cellphone from strait talk and wally world is the only retail location to buy airtime cards. I caught hell from friends in the protest crowd over this. The only purchase made was the phonecard needed so he could text his girlfriend. 
  I myself am known for supporting Mike Brown, and John Crawford for months now. My Support Tamir Rice is growing as well, and this trip to Walmart added fuel to my fire . Nationwide organizations put out the word to "blackout blackfriday at Walmart" for their choice to fund the D.wilson defense in his upcoming  wrongful death case in the Brown killing. Union organizations joined the cause as well over wallly worlds proven track record of neglect for employees rights and low pay from our nations number one employer. 
  What I seen in this store was everything that is wrong with this store and its sales of gun related items. You would think If a man was killed, in one of your stores less than 70 miles away, for carrying an item picked up off of your shelf's you might want to pull the item for a while. This location put it on a
lower shelf. If a child was shot in a park, for playing with an airsoft pistol purchased at another Walmart 85 miles, away that one might need put away as well . This store had them on sale for under 15 bucks just two weeks latter. With child & gun related anger all over the country right here and
now at a peak this behavior is disturbing . I wish it ended with that, but this is Walmart. In an attempt to overfill the store with toys for blackfriday they filled the walk way full of baby dolls,action figures,and other toys that target small kids right past the outdoors department . On the end caps of the outdoors department more BB guns that look like big people guns. The massive display of buck-knives , axes, and machetes  placed in the walkway next to the toys was a mind blower as well .
  Me being who I am I took pictures. I tweeted those pics. and my phone went nuts. One of the employees who was working on her brown  nosier  badge seen me and called for a manager. I was followed to the checkout lines. If we as responsible gun owners do not call out this kind of lack in retail responsibility we are as guilty as the retailers.
  Its clear with the placement that this is a target on child sales. Wally world has a team of retail brainiacs that design floor layouts and item placement . They call them floor plans and sheets get sent to all locations telling them where the items need to be placed for sales. What Idiot thought this was a good retail plan? Is this type of target sales what a retail giant should be doing? I played cowboys and Indians as a kid too but in those days the guns came from the toy department not the outdoors department. I can promise you that after this trip none of my Christmas purchases will come from any Walmart . 


















 

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