Posted on 09/18/2013 5:01:23 AM PDT by kimtom
(Reuters photo- with article)
While many U.S. restaurant chains and retailers do not allow firearms on their properties, Starbucks' policy had been to default to local gun laws, including "open carry" regulations in many U.S. states that allow people to bring guns into stores.
In August, this led gun-rights advocates to hold a national "Starbucks Appreciation Day" to thank the firm for its stance, pulling the company deeper into the fierce political fight.
Locations for Starbucks Appreciation Day events included Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 children and six adults were shot dead in an elementary school in December. Starbucks closed that shop before the event was scheduled to begin.
Chief Executive Howard Schultz said in an open letter to customers late Tuesday that Starbucks Appreciation Day events "disingenuously portray Starbucks as a champion of 'open carry.' To be clear: we do not want these events in our stores."
The coffee chain did not, ............
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I will spend money at Starbucks one more time - a $2 bill. Then I will use up my rewards and request a refund of the remaining balance on my Starbucks card. Damned shame, but what can you expect from Seattle?
Haven’t been in a Starbucks in more than ten years. Waiting in line, paying idiot prices, coffee more often than not that was not what I ordered, are my recollections. Their politics are only fecal frosting on that cake.
Did someone have a real sense of humor in TX, or is that sign number just a fluke of luck?
This just in, armed robberies at Starbucks locations spike 83% nationwide....
Gun free zones are safe! Ask the victims at the Washington Navy Yard.
Sense of humor. I'm can't remember who (Attorney General, or Lt Governor, or....) assigned the Penal Code numbers, but in my CHL class the instructor said that the number was very intentional.
I guess it’s the libertarian streak in me, but I don’t really see a problem with this. Starbucks owners have every right to tell people they don’t want them to bring guns into their stores. Of course, gun owners have every right to refuse to patronize Starbucks.
They have the right to do this, but it may not have been a wise decision on their part. I think there are more gun owners than they realize.
“Starbucks asks U.S. customers to leave guns at home”
How asinine ! So do they figure you’ll go there in the morning leaving your gun at home, then get the gun afterwards, perhaps go to work, then go home at the end of the day to drop the gun off before getting another coffee and be unsafe the entire time you’re transferring your gun?
Perhaps Starbucks could be a better enterprise if they provide lockable gun cubicles within the store “to check” their weapons like a lot of jails do prior to entry?
“”..Their politics are only fecal frosting on that cake...”
I like your colorful choice of words...made me chuckle.
:)
Yes, I agree they have a right (as any private business should). But it is political.
Hopefully armed (and like minded) patrons stop going and send a message....
and maybe all the pansies that complained will feel safer, especially in NY and LA.
(just an opinion)
Ha. Good for them!
We are getting to the point where a company like Starbucks almost has to adopt 2 entirely different policies, for essentially 2 Americas. Nebraska, Montana, Idaho and North Dakota should not have the same culture and should not have the same rules as the Starbucks in NYC, LA, and DC.
We are living in America with 2 separate and distinct cultures, and their parallel lines will never meet. Corporate America needs to start acknowledging this fact instead of punishing half (or more!!) of America.
Note to armed robbers.... No one will oppose you in starbucks...
We quit Starbucks a long time ago and got a Tassimo machine.
Yet every one of the slaughters of defenseless innocents recounted since 1949 has occurred in settings amiable to the NYC/LA/DC culture you distinguish from a culture you identity (fairly enough) as a Nebraska/Montana/Idaho/North Dakota prototype. Which indicates to me that the problem lies with the NYC/LA/DC paradigm, and it is within this model where lies the problem requiring a “fix.” The “problem” remains constant for the various American cultures . . . whether it resides within a state installation or a Starbucks outlet, a “Gun Free” Zone is, in fact, a “Free Kill” Zone and an open invitation to commit all the slaughter that might satisfy one’s fondest dreams.
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