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In Marx’s Crosshairs: The Left-Wing Nation Targets WalMart, Tries To Tie Retailer To Mass Murders

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  December 18th, 2012 at 11:30 PM  | 

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Apparently, the WalMart haters on the Left (namely, unions, #Occupy’s useful idiots, and just about every other Marxist fringe group you can think of) have become so desperate in their demonization of the capitalist success story that they’re now trying to pin the Sandy Hook shootings that killed nearly 30 people on the nation’s largest (non-union) retailer.

It was bad enough to see the institutional Left (and its media allies)–as they usually do–immediately blame guns for the actions of a psychopath. However, for the Marxist writers at The Nation try to tie WalMart’s selling of “assault rifles” takes the Left’s Alinsky-esque tactics to new lows.

In a piece entitled “Five Assault Rifles You Can Pick up at Walmart,” The Nation’s writers Francis Reynolds and George Zornick sort of imply that Connecticut madman Adam Lanza may have gotten the weapons he used at his local WalMart store…or maybe he didn’t.

When Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, inexplicably bent on ending as many lives as possible, he was carrying a Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle and several high-capacity magazines. Although it is not clear yet where the AR-15 used by Lanza (which was registered to his mother) was purchased, the model is familiar to many shoppers at Walmart. [Emphasis added.]

The Nation also assails WalMart in a separate piece entitled: How Walmart Helped Make Newtown Shooter’s AR-15 the Most Popular Assault Weapon in America

Given the Left’s recent attacks on WalMart (including the Black Friday “strike”), in this latter piece, The Nation gives a glimmer of its agenda by quoting former ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis, who now heads the Black Institute:

“This gun thing, it’s really just a nightmare,” says Bertha Lewis, president of the Black Institute, which has been organizing Walmart workers this year to protest wages and working conditions. Given its aggressive gun sales, Walmart’s logo “shouldn’t be a smiley face; it should be an automatic weapon,” she adds. [Emphasis added.]

While The Nation uses WalMart as its anti-gun piñata in both articles—even invoking the Aurora, Colorado theater movie shooting—it does not explicitly claim that any mass murderers actually obtained their guns from WalMart. Rather, The Nation’s writers merely imply that the retailer is responsible for the deaths committed by mass murderers.

Nowhere, however, does The Nation’s writers mention Fast and Furious and the murder weapons supplied to Mexican cartels by Eric Holder & Co. The Nation also conveniently ignores the Fort Hood massacre and fails at having any discussion on the fact that sometimes lunatics snap and do horrific things.

Instead, The Nation found a convenient way to spew its anti-gun diatribe against a successful union-free corporation that it has long targeted.

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  • aj5443

    With no Walmart Gun Counter, I might as well go to Target.

  • joshinca

    The left doesn’t hate WalMart, they hate WalMart’s customers.
    It’s part of their sick, twisted, identity politics.

  • iowaguy

    Ok great. We can combat the Left on gun control. I’d love to see some articles on how conservatives can realistically propose methods to stop these horrific events. I mean, our stance can’t be, “these events are inevitable and crazies will always get guns.”

  • raginpatriot

    Pick a target, freeze it … Saul Alinsky

    We don’t need gun control, we need loony control — the entity standing in the way of preventing such occurrences is not the NRA, but the ACLU.

    And WalMart is targeted as a collateral target on the Left’s jihad to disarm Americans.

  • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

    By your logic (and that of the Left), the car dealer in this story should stop selling cars:

    Car crashes into Ohio concert crowd, dozens hurt

  • seafoxx

    I’m really curious as to what you would say is the cause of the shootings in Sandy Hook if it is not the shooter’s access to guns? Can anyone on this blog give me a single instance when they used a semi-automatic weapon to protect themselves or their property or someone they loved? I’m not talking about being scared because someone you don’t know is walking around your neighborhood and standing there with a gun at your window in case something happened. I mean an actual, honest case of your military-grade gun protecting your life instead of just inflicting harm. Enlighten me.

  • jpkoch

    I say we should continue to bring up Fast and Furious continuously. If the Left persisits in their narrative, then so should we.

  • seafoxx

    Actually you bring up a good point. If someone kills someone with a car, he goes to jail and loses his right to drive a car, and the laws around owning and operating a car become much more strict. And no one except the military is allowed to drive a tank down the street. We as a society have decided that cars can be dangerous if operated by drunk or impaired people.We have given up our “right” to drive any kind of car we want any time because it protects us in the long run. We have yet to do that with guns.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Not sure it will make any difference as you sound like a pretty typical liberal which translates into having a severe impediment to comprehending truth. But, in a nut shell, guns don’t shoot themselves — it is a person that pulls the trigger. It’s just that simple.

  • satchman3

    Referring to a ‘military-grade gun’ suggests that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

    The shooter’s access to guns did not cause the shootings in Sandy Hook. That’s absurd – probably everyone you know has similar access to guns (go to the store and buy them).

    People with guns do protect their property with their guns. Volokh.com had a list of potential mass shootings that were stopped by armed civilians – read it.

    I can’t give you an example of when the airbags in my car saved my life or the burglar alarm or fire alarms at my house have saved me or my family but I’m glad I have them all the same.

  • rightlane1111

    Smoke and Mirrors…they (the government) wants to unionize WalMart. This thing about the guns is just a shill.

  • rightlane1111

    Switzerland…NO CRIME…NO MURDERS WITH GUNS. Kennesaw, GA…crime with guns down to almost 0. Now…ban them…like in Chicago…AND EVERYONE SEEMS TO GET GUNNED DOWN…and yes…I was shouting.

  • rightlane1111

    As long as the MSM controls the media…you will only hear one side. The worst school tragedy was the bombing of a school that killed more people. OK…let’s get rid of everything that can make a bomb. So what…we will put fake grass in for everyone because fertilizer will not be allowed. These events are inevitable…what about 9/11…how many people died in that incident. No guns. What about Oklahoma City…no guns there…a nursery full of kids died.

    No…Mr. iowaguy…we have a problem with (1) morality and (2) consequences to laws broken. Do I believe in the death sentence…you betcha.

  • rightlane1111

    What is the purpose of the 2nd Amendment? It is to protect the citizens against OUR GOVERNMENT. Seems to me that in light of the past four years…why would we even be discussing this.

  • JimAustinTexas

    Great point. Thanks for reminding us.

  • seafoxx

    So you need to protect yourself against violent attack from the government by stockpiling automatic weapons? What have you done that would cause the government to be so angry at you, I wonder?

  • seafoxx

    Well unfortunately your argument makes no sense because a mentally ill person can’t use an airbag or a burglar alarm to kill people. Those devices have only one use, to protect people. Guns are used to kill people.

  • seafoxx

    Thank you for that, I couldn’t agree more. Guns need a person to shoot them and kill people. By that logic, let’s make guns available to every man, woman, and child in the world and assign them each a 24 hour security guard to make sure they don’t ever use them. Or just get rid of bullets. That way, no one will ever kill anyone. I have no problems with guns per se, guns are neat little objects, very pretty and ingenious, until someone uses one to kill your kids.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    First off, I doubt anyone on this blog has an automatic weapon, and neither did the shooter in Newtown, CT. Educate yourself before you get on here shouting your tripe.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    No, guns are a tool to protect people, that is why police officers carry them.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    Funny, I don’t remember Teddy Kennedy going to jail or losing his driving privilege.

  • greyeagle

    It is interesting that most of these incidents occur in blue states controlled by Democrats. Now what do you suppose is the reason why? Most of these states have strict gun laws, but of course criminals still manage to obtain weapons. Rarely do these incidents occur in red states. Why is that? Concealed weapons laws, and generally armed law abiding citizens. Criminals or individuals intending harm will go for soft targets that have gun free zones like schools. Look at crime stats in blue states and compare them with red states of about the same size. You will see much higher stats in blue states. In red states criminals hesitate, because they simply do not know who is armed.

  • Jack_Savage

    People know I have one. Or two.
    That’s why they protect me.

  • Jack_Savage

    I’ll tell you what. I am sick and tired of deaths due to auto accidents. Also, automobiles use fossil fuels. I would like to ban them all, so those who may be insane or impaired will not have access to them.

    I need you to turn in your car tomorrow to help us achieve our goal. If you don’t, you are obviously pro-auto-death, and shouldn’t be allowed to participate in a conversation in a free society. Please let me know how you stand on this issue.

  • joshinca

    You probably don’t know this but…

    Gun control first became widespread in the post reconstruction south as a way to keep guns out of the hands of newly freed slaves. With the intended side effect of those people being defenseless against organized political violence.

    So next time you mock the idea of people needing to protect themselves against the government, consider whether or not black people would have liked to be able to defend themselves against racist mobs then.

  • seafoxx

    I’m all for using fewer cars. i ride the subway and ride my bike whenever I can. I totally agree with you on that statement. Cars are a big problem. Yes I use them but I’m all for regulating their use for the sake of the greater good. Just like guns.

  • seafoxx

    Yes, greyeagle, you’re right, i have no weapons, don’t care to ever own one. I don’t want anything in my home or environment that could be used to kill my kids or any other person. I’ve never gone hunting with a gun. I shot a 22 in target practice and had a BB gun and a cap gun when I was a kid. Before that I played army with my friends when I was 6 or 7. That was fun but I outgrew all those activities.

  • seafoxx

    I am all for police officers carrying guns. I don’t think anyone has a problem with that. They receive training and are fully aware of the consequences of misusing them, for the most part.

  • seafoxx

    I said semi-automatic.

  • seafoxx

    If i knew you had one or two guns in your house, i would advise all of my friends and family to stay far away from your house. So yes, you are now “protected” from interacting with the rest of society. Congratulations.

  • Jack_Savage

    No. You didn’t.

  • Jack_Savage

    And as a side note, would you also advise your friends not to attempt to break in, or otherwise try to harm my family?
    And if you knew I carried a concealed weapon, and one of your mentally ill friends decided to shoot up a restaurant we both happened to be dining in, which one of us would you hide near?

    I understand you don’t know anything about guns, or mass shootings, or the history of this country, or the Second Amendment, and that you are speaking from ignorance and fear. I understand. If I were fearful and ignorant, I would probably say the same things.

    However, and this is friend to friend, you are really embarrassing yourself here. I am more interested in the root cause of every single mass shooting in Obama’s term, which is undiagnosed / untreated mental illness. I am also interested in your plan for dialing back the welfare state, which has produced fatherless families by the tens of thousands – the best predictor of future violence.

    Looking forward to you addressing the real causes of these shootings, but not holding my breath.

  • Jack_Savage

    And yet you come here and lecture us on something you admit you know nothing about? Then brag about how you “outgrew” those activities, while you and your family sleep under the warm blanket of freedom provided by those who didn’t?

    And you drive your kids around in a car, which kills tens of thousands every year, and let them ride bikes, which kill scores more?

    Rarely do we get to see this type of intellect in action. Thank you for being here.

  • Jack_Savage

    So you aren’t for banning automobiles? You think that all those who are killed are just collateral damage? I can’t believe you are so callous.

    Regulating guns…hmmm…let me think about that one. You mean like a waiting period to buy handguns, banning fully automatic weapons, reducing the size of magazines available for semi-automatic weapons, not allowing concealed carry in, say, New York City, and requiring a mental health check prior to the purchase of a gun?

    Wow. No one has ever thought of that before. I can’t wait to tell Mayor Bloomberg and other legislators to get bills in process that do just that.

  • PowerToThePeople

    Who cares what you are for. Tell you what sonny boy, you show the world how taking guns from us “untrained and ignorant right leaning tards” should be done. I will provide my address, you come take my guns. We will see who is trained in what.

  • PowerToThePeople

    Well you keep singing those hippie songs and crapping in the street. Maybe when someone comes to harm you, the smell or the pleasant sounds of your song will persuade them to pass on hurting you.

    When is trash day here, this piece of trash is really starting to stink up the place.

  • rightlane1111

    I’m not stockpiling weapons…I am telling you what the Second Amendment IS about. Now apparently there was a reason for that. Just think seafoxx…if George Washington didn’t have a gun…and he was fighting HIS GOVERNMENT AT THE TIME, you my dear fox would not have the United States of America…you’d be taxed beyond belief…but then…I guess we repeat the same ole same ole until we die or are broke. Isn’t that where we are headed?

  • satchman3

    You’re being ridiculous. My guns have so far managed to not kill anyone and lord willing they never will. You can persist in your ignorance if you want – I also have a concealed carry license so you can do nothing for your personal safety but if you’re around me you’ll be safer. You’re welcome.