That’s how Walmart annihilated mom and pop shops. Low margin times massive scale still equals massive profits, but no small shop can possibly operate on such low margins.

The real tragedy is when a Walmart kills all the small stores, but then the location closes for not being profitable enough

That is what people think lol. There is SOME cause for concern about price fixing on rents, but again, the only way to combat high rent prices is to increase supply

Outdated advice. Some Walmarts still look the other way. Plenty of others will call the police.

Honestly though, I would take my chances with a random Walmart over a random church.

In Massachusetts that will probably happen.

We have really weird gun laws where your local police have unilateral rights to reject your license to carry without reason needed. My understanding is that any incident involving any iffy use of your firearm will almost certainly to taking away your license to carry