Nonsense. Starbucks caved to the CT dems and the million (2 dozen) squeeling moms:
Connecticut Democrats are throwing their weight behind the campaign pressing Starbucks to prohibit firearms in their coffee shops nationwide.
Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Rep. Elizabeth Esty endorsed a recent letter, spearheaded by family members of victims of December’s shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, asking Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz to help “foster a culture of peace and ban guns from your stores.”
The Starbucks gun policy, which allows customers to carry firearms, including concealed weapons, in accordance with local laws, “undermines the safety and well-being of our citizens,” the signers say.
“[T]o prevent another Sandy Hook, we as a society must prioritize the sanctity of human life over the individual’s ‘right to carry,’” the letter reads.
Starbucks spokeswoman Jamie Riley confirmed that the company had responded to the letter, although details were not provided. Schultz also spoke over the phone with the father of a Newtown victim, but a meeting was not set up as the gun control advocates had hoped.
GEEZ; I must really be getting old, I thought that the Sandy Hook murders took place at a school, not a Starbucks.