On August 3, a shooter entered an El Paso, Texas Walmart with an assault rifle and killed 22 people. Three days prior, The Clarion Ledger reported that a Walmart location in Southaven, Mississippi became the scene of a different incident where a Walmart employee fatally shot two others.
In the time since these tragedies, Walmart has faced public outcry regarding the corporate decision to continue selling guns and ammunition despite the fact that their workers and customers have experienced the horrors of gun violence firsthand.
For a time, Walmart kept relatively quiet about this backlash, but it's hard not to see the company's latest decision as a response to it.