Strangely enough…
It has been a long time but I learned to shoot with my Boy Scouts troop on a target range in the basement of the local junior high school (9th and 10th graders).
That relatively unfinished area was later converted to locker rooms for the field, but that happened in the 1970’s.
… also, when I acted in our senior high school’s staging of “Annie Get Your Gun”, we used real rifles firing blanks on the stage in the auditorium.
Nice job of assuming it’s racism. We have many stores being looted, why should anyone be surprised that they pack away things looters would target?
Here in Abalama, the two Walmarts I sometimes go to have not had AR-type guns on the shelves for some time. Maybe they’re selling down existing stock at some stores. I also noticed that they didn’t have pistol ammo at one of them.
For those making cracks about “ammosexuals” at Walmart, well, those folks wouldn’t be caught with a mere Walmart gun. They generally go more upscale that Wallyworld. Maybe their lingerie, but not the guns.
Well, well, well. Are you here to punish me with that cannon in your pocket? My safe word is “high-capacity magazine.”
Someone needs some trigger discipline…
Well we were discussing the ammo. The Walmarts near me barely carried fire arms to begin with. Though they have large ammo cases.
But I’ll again point to Dick’s, who pulled such guns from the shelves and had them destroyed to the tune of $5 million dollars.
They’ve also put a lot of money into buy back programs.
Walmart only pulled the AR-15s after the CEO of Dick’s explicitly called them out on it in the wake of Sandy Hook. Walmart’s other major response was to announce they were shuttering gun departments in a number of store. Stores where they were already scheduled to close, either down to low sales in urban areas or in response to being required to provide background checks for private sales along with all fire arms dealers.
One of these companies is legitimately trying to improve things. The other is covering it’s ass PR wise.
Nice job assuming it’s not racism. Perhaps that’s part of the problem here?
You always figure the null hypothesis so long as the data doesn’t exclude it.
Have you seen the news for at least the last 400 years?
Although there is no law in the United States identifying 25 as the legal age to rent a car, this is the de-facto age that one can rent a car without paying an exorbitant amount of insurance with the rental (if not renting at all). Perhaps the auto rental industry knows something our government doesn’t.
I’m just reporting what I see down here, where the “ammosexuals” are thick on the ground. I suspect that Walmart is behaving differently in different areas. I also, since I’ve had a few students who were WM employees, even managers, that there’s a lot of chaos at work.
I am definitely not defending Walmart, or Dicks, or any of these folks. If anything, I’d express doubt that any of these entities are doing more than ass-covering.
No need to regulate everything that can be weaponized when simply regulating weapons will do nicely.
I used to be a high school teacher so I speak for those instructors who don’t wish to see guns on campus.
CA teachers have anywhere from 28 to 40 students in their classes and many of their students are sneaky. I’m not judging them because I think it’s their right to see how much they can push boundaries and learn what’s acceptable and what isn’t acceptable. It’s very difficult to keep tabs on all students every second, so just imagine helping one student and having another take unwanted pictures of another student. How about discovering that one of your students had drawn a fantastic mural on their desk in 50 minutes but they were able kept it secret? Asking one teacher to be responsible for keeping guns is an accident or major incident just waiting to happen.
I personally would agree to this. In the peaceful context of a school, which is a community of people who all know each other, or are otherwise familiar, adding guns to the classroom doesn’t sound like an improvement to safety. It might also have the inadvertent consequence of making violence, or the threat of it part of a tool, that teachers have available to them, which is just a horrible thought.
My brother is a veteran, Army Reserve fire arms instructor, and teacher at an urban school with a violence problem. He’s also a giant asshole who still thinks Obama was up to something.
When arming teachers on campus became a runner he described it as the stupidest god damned idea he had ever heard. And when his school asked him to consider carrying a weapon on campus he threatened to quit.
That’s the problem. Different people draw different lines around “weapon”. Yeah, manufactured guns are an obvious one. Crossbows? Compound bows? Knives? Antique rifles? 3D printers?
Evidence suggests that guns aren’t all that obvious to far too many, despite being just about the purest example of “weapon” imaginable. But so are bows, knives are a grey area, antique rifles could be depending on how usable they are. 3D printers obviously aren’t except to the people who try to argue that guns aren’t weapons.
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In before the National (Socialist) Rifle Ass. calls them a bunch of Dick’s…
(Not to be confused with the Socialist Rifle Ass.)
