Signed petition: No. 36381
Sent a little communiqué to Wally World as well:
As whoever is receiving this may know, Michael Moore is attempting to get Wal-Mart to stop selling handgun ammunition. His reasons, while seemingly simple, are wrong. He states that "Each bullet Wal-Mart sells could kill a human being, and far too often, they actually do." Perhaps ammunition sold at Wal-Mart makes a fair percentage of ammunition used in murders; I don't know. But to claim that the ammunition is used "too often" to murder is ridiculous. Of total ammunition sales from Wal-Mart, very, very, very few rounds are used in the commission of a crime. For every round fired with criminal intent, millions, perhaps billions are safely used for sporting purposes such as target shooting.
His claim that the extremely small amount of deaths are "blood on Wal-Mart's hands" is thoroughly absurd. What the miniscule amount of your customers that are violent and insane use their purchases for is not Wal-Mart's fault. What about the baseball bats, knives, and even pillows that are sold by Wal-Mart that are potential murder weapons? If Wal-Mart stops selling every item that has a remote chance of being used in a murder, they could sell nothing. Everything is, in the wrong hands, fatal.
My entire family have been customers at Wal-Mart for several years. Our ammunition purchases are almost exclusively made there, and not a single one of the many thousands of rounds we have purchased there or anywhere else has been used in the commission of a crime. The same statement can be made about well over thirty thousand customers (
http://www.petitiononline.com/GT1776/petition.html). No matter what Moore says, your customers want you to keep selling ammunition. What Moore would do, whether he intends to or not, is put Wal-Mart out of business from loss of revenue. Do not let this happen. Please continue to stock ammunition.
In addition, Store no. 2015 in Fairfax, VA,does not carry certain popular calibers. If it would start stocking 7.62x25 Tokarev, 7.62x54R, and .45-70 Gov't, we would use Wal-Mart for further ammunition purchases.
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