French.china.org.cn | Updated on 09-04-2023
With approximately 140 reported and confirmed mass shooting incidents in the United States so far in 2023, it has become unnervingly easy for the public to be desensitized and move on, USA Today reported recently.
According to the article written by Walmart staffer Cynthia Murray, six co-workers at a Walmart in Virginia were killed in November in a mass shooting. Just two months later, another attack occurred at a Walmart in Indiana. “These tragedies are not isolated,” she stressed.
“But for retail workers like me, these shootings are a reminder of how dangerous our jobs have become and, increasingly, how little our employers care about the lives of people in their stores – to both the customers who shop there and the associates who work there,” she said in the article published Thursday.
According to Guns Down America, between January 1, 2020 and last November 22, there were at least 363 firearm incidents and 112 firearm deaths at Walmart. “Before that, in 2019, the Walmart community and our country as a whole were devastated by the loss of 23 lives in a mass store shooting in El Paso, Texas — a racist attack that continues to haunt us. haunt today,” Ms. Murray further noted.
“As a result of these incidents, employees like me believe that Walmart officials, including CEO Doug McMillon, failed to update store safety policies, strengthen security, listen to worker concerns or taken the necessary measures to protect employees and customers,” she concluded in the article.