Walmart removing signs, displays or videos that depict violence following the mass shooting attack at one of its stores in Texas: 'we've taken this action out of respect for the incidents of the past week;' video games and gun sales policy not changing.
The retailer instructed employees in an internal memo to remove any marketing material, turn off or unplug video game consoles that show violent games — specifically Xbox and PlayStation consoles, and to monitor and turn off any violence depicted on screens in its electronics departments.
"We've taken this action out of respect for the incidents of the past week," said spokeswoman Tara House in an email to The Associated Press on Friday. The killings in Texas, followed by another in Dayton, Ohio, just hours later that left nine dead, have put the country on edge. There have been 254 mass shooting in the United States this, according to the Gun Violence Archive. That means there have been more instances of four or more people being shot in individual outbreaks of violence than there have been days in 2019.On Friday, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren blasted the company in a tweet .
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