Source: EFE
number of associations and politicians in New York today criticized the decision of the retailer Walmart to resell firearms and ammunition in their stores, something the company had ceased to five years ago.
"We know that the bullets that killed six people in the shooting that occurred in January in Arizona were purchased at Walmart, and now the company wants to make more accessible ammunition" criticized the Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer in a press release.
"Queremos dejar claro que cualquier empresa que busque nuevos mercados para vender armas y animar una cultura de la violencia no es bienvenida en Nueva York", añadió Stringer, en relación a la oposición de diversos colectivos a la entrada de esa compañía en la ciudad .
- Por su parte, el portavoz de la plataforma Walmartfreenyc, una de las más activas contra la presencia de la cadena de tiendas en Nueva York, Eric Koch, señaló también en un comunicado que l a decisión de volver a vender weapons "comes after more than two years of declines in U.S. sales."
- Depending on the platform, these bad results are what have led what they called an "aggressive expansion plan in New York, also in areas where the use of firearms is a problem. "
- In this line, dozens of people protested on Wednesday against Walmart in Bryant Park, in the heart of the Big Apple, due to the presence in the City company chairman, Michael Duke.
- Those attending the protest, some of whom wore masks and were dressed business man or the Statue of Liberty and sang a song in the criticism that Wal-Mart discriminates some workers and chanted in English "Walmart listen, we are in the fight."
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