The real reason Walmart just outflanked Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell
The polls say that the vast majority of Americans, including the majority of gun owners, want some form of stricter gun control to be enacted. But don’t tell that to Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell, two NRA puppets who are doing everything they can to try to block any gun reform from happening. Now Trump and McConnell just got outflanked by Walmart.
Walmart announced today that it’s ending sales of handgun ammunition, and it’s asking customers not to open carry guns within its stores. This is a day late and a dollar short, to say the least. Walmart should have done this a long time ago, and it should be doing far more than it’s doing. But at least Walmart is doing something, and it underscores just how untenable the Republican Party’s current gun policy is.
Walmart is a multibillion dollar for-profit corporate conglomerate run by soulless executive ghouls. They didn’t suddenly have a crisis of conscience after the white supremacist mass shooting in an El Paso Walmart and other related incidents. Instead, these executives have simply calculated that being a part of gun culture is increasingly bad for the bottom line. They’ve concluded that it’s more profitable to risk alienating gun addicts with these latest moves, than to continue alienating normal Americans who are demanding change.
This serves as a reminder that corporate America is always going to go wherever the money is. Walmart has decided that, in spite of all the stores it has in rural gun-addicted towns, it still needs to side with gun control in order to remain as profitable as possible. Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are still bizarrely taking marching orders from the NRA despite the gun group being essentially being bankrupt, and it appears they’re going to stick to it – no matter how much it costs them and their party.
