Walmart refuses to meet VP Biden to talk guns

[kpete]

The White House extended an invitation to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to participate in a meeting Thursday focused on curbing gun violence, but the retailer declined due to a scheduling conflict, a company spokesman said.

The meeting is part of a series of gatherings Vice President Joe Biden is holding this week with a wide range of organizations, including the National Rifle Association and victims’ groups, as he and other administration officials undertake a broad review of gun violence in the wake of the December shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. On Thursday, the vice president is scheduled to sit down with gun owners’ groups, including the NRA, as well as advocates for sportsmen and sportswomen…

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/01/08/wal-mart-declines-a-meeting-with-biden-on-gun-violence/

[Sherman A1]

1. Wow

out of the entire company, everyone has a scheduling conflict?

[bongbong]

2. It's not so much a personnel scheduling conflict as ...

... a conflict with their lucrative slaughtering tool sales to Delicate Flowers.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Of Wal-Mart's 2.1 million employees...

...apparently not one was available.

[RKP5637]

4. When corporations become more powerful than countries. Biden will have to go on

a waiting list ... begging some receptionist for an appointment. Jefferson warned us, Eisenhower warned us, but none take heed in la la land America.

[SummerSnow]

5. This Walmart's new logo...

......not this......

[Frustratedlady]

6. They have been on my "list" for many years.

That makes me proud that I saw their "content/character" a long time ago and stuck to my gut feeling to never shop there.

[Control-Z]

8. I've been boycotting them

since 2004.

[randr]

7. Want to bet they have recently made a huge buy of weapons? nc

[former-republican]

9. What does Walmart have to do with gun violence?

If the administration wants to talk to Walmart.

How about the President publicly during a news conference asking them why 40% of their employees are on government assistance.

[Earth_First]

11. They are the largest retailer of firearms and ammunition in the country.

They have everything to do with the conversation on gun violence.

[Earth_First]

10. Simple solution: Then tell the NRA that they aren't welcome to the conversation...

Watch how quickly Wal-Mart shows up.

How can the largest retailer of the NRA's talking points have a scheduling conflict.

If that's the case, I would create a few scheduling conflicts of our own.

Hold the line, Vice President...

[ProgressiveProfessor]

13. Wal-Mart sells talking points?

Who knew

[Earth_First]

14. Indirectly, yes the do...

The NRA shills for talking points which they expect legislation to follow which in turn affects Wal-Mart's bottom line.

One is very much affected by the other.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. I am glad to see one less corporation at the table, isn't everyone?