Wal-Mart Hurts Self in Flap Over Crow, Guns

As an avid shopper, stockholder and yes, fan of Wal-Mart stores, I wish their decision makers would read over that poem of Sheryl Crow’s (“Wal-Mart Bans Album Over Gun Sale Lyrics,” Sept. 10) and be grateful that she is making a generic term out of the word “Wal-Mart” (such as the man’s name “Quisling” that came to stand for the word “traitor” during and since the World War II).

And I wish that they would stop selling guns, which brings harm to living things, and sell Sheryl Crow’s album instead, which brings knowledge and, if one is lucky, insight.

BETTY GLASSER

Anaheim