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<DIV><SPAN>Joe <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>Biden</SPAN> is getting his task force on gun violence off the ground this week and inviting folks to White House for some informational meetings. It's hard to imagine anyone would say no, right? Well, <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>Walmart</SPAN> does unimaginable things all the time, and this is no exception. On Tuesday, a company spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal that they declined to meet with the vice president due to a scheduling conflict. What on Earth do they have going on? Presumably the only thing that could be more important than a meeting with the vice president would be a meeting with the president, and we're pretty sure the White House would've spotted that scheduling conflict before inviting <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>Walmart</SPAN> to swing by.</SPAN></DIV>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 11px 0px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" id=yiv2135712084yui_3_5_1_19_1357746731779_212><SPAN>This news is troubling for a couple of reasons. On one hand, folks on all sides of the issue have been eager to participate in what's sure to be a policy-making conversation about <SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=yiv2135712084lw_1357697052_5 class="yiv2135712084yshortcuts yiv2135712084cs4-ndcor">gun control</SPAN>. Heck, even the <SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=yiv2135712084lw_1357697052_6 class="yiv2135712084yshortcuts yiv2135712084cs4-ndcor">National Rifle Association has agreed</SPAN> to meet with the administration. They'd just look insensitive if they turned their backs on the victims of the Sandy Hook shootings at this point. On the other hand, as the nation's largest gun seller, <SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>Walmart</SPAN> has an obvious economic stake in this
debate and has said that gun sales are a big part of its strategy going forward. It's also sure to be a target of stricter regulations since its stores played a role in several recent mass shootings, most notoriously when it sold bullets to Jared <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>Loughner</SPAN><A style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703779704576074080255720732.html?mod=e2tw" rel=nofollow target=_blank> </A>before he shot <SPAN style="CURSOR: pointer" id=yiv2135712084lw_1357697052_4 class="yiv2135712084yshortcuts yiv2135712084cs4-ndcor">Congresswomen Gabrielle <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>Giffords</SPAN></SPAN> and 18 others in 2011. It also ended up in an awkward position when it pulled the Bushmaster AR-15 from its <SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>online</SPAN> store after the Sandy Hook shootings.</SPAN></div>
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<DIV>Rumor has it that <SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>Walmart</SPAN> is unable to attend the gun-control meeting with Vice President <SPAN id=misspell-13 class=mark>Biden</SPAN>, because they (<SPAN id=misspell-14 class=mark>Walmart</SPAN>) are busy preparing for their . . .</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN id=misspell-15 class=mark>Seeya</SPAN> round town, Moscow, because . . .</DIV>
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<DIV>Tom Hansen</DIV>
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