Anti-Gun Group Begins "Brew Not Bullets" Starbucks Boycott
As promised, an anti-gun group began a boycott of Starbucks on Valentine's Day over the chain's gun policy -- or rather, its lack of a gun policy.
The CEO of the National Gun Victims Action Council (NGAC) said he tried to avoid the "Brew Not Bullets" boycott, but Starbucks would not budge on its stance.
"The boycott will end only when Starbucks rejects the NRA's Pro-Gun agenda by 1) banning all guns from their stores and 2) committing to be an Aggressive Corporate Advocate for sane gun laws," NGAC CEO Elliot Fineman said in a news release.
Starbucks' gun policy is simply that is abides by local laws, saying "In the end, we determined that following local laws is the best approach for us. Were we to adopt a policy different from local laws allowing open carry, we would be forced to require our partners to ask law abiding customers to leave our stores."
But Fineman isn't buying that explanation.
"As local laws also allow them to ban guns, they expose their real position which has nothing to do with local laws; the fact is that Starbucks supports the NRA's lethal Pro-Gun Agenda," he said.
NGAC is asking supporters to send an email to Starbucks, which reads in part:
I support the Valentine’s Day launch of the BREW not BULLETS: Say no to Starbucks Boycott. I will not visit Starbucks stores or buy any Starbucks products wherever they are sold until your company joins other national chains — including Disney, IKEA, California Pizza Kitchen and others — in banning handguns and assault rifles from your stores and becoming an advocate for sane gun laws. Thousands of people have petitioned, asked at your shareholder meeting, and appealed directly to your Board to ban guns in your stores. Your refusal is a vote for the NRA and their lethal pro-gun agenda!
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WOW This boycott is certainly hurting Starbucks! I bet a lot of business' wish NGAC would come after them!
I drink my coffee there. Safest place there is.
First of all, in every single instance where guns are allowed to be carried, concealed or not, crime has gone down. Violent crime has gone in Houston, Texas dramatically because gun owners in homes and commercial establishments are shooting back and protecting themselves. Check the crime rate in any State or city where guns are banned and you will find a huge amount of gun deaths. First of all criminals will get guns no matter what, no matter how many laws are passed, period. People who are legally allowed to purchase or own guns,DO NOT COMMIT THE CRIMES. Do not bring up the Gabby Giffords shooting because Jared Laughner was able to purchase a gun "legally" because the local sheriff exhibited GROSS NEGLIGENCE by not reporting his mental instability even though he was emminently aware of the problems, and had been for years, as Laughner's mother worked for him in his department. The existing law was not followed which would have prevented the purchase of the firearm in the first place. I am a legal gun owner and I am for every valid law that would prevent criminals from getting firearms, as long as my legal right to possess a firearm is not infringed.
One thing we know factually, concealed carry has NOT CAUSED an INCREASE in violent crime. During the same period that more and more states have adopted CC laws the FBI stats are showing a DECREASE in violent crime.
While we cannot prove that CC has contributed to the decrease we can PROVE factually that concealed carry HAS contributed to gunpackers being able to defend themselves from violent criminals.
Such as these stories and ten thousand more like them;
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Man at ATM Shoots Armed Robbers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blq_a_lqDBs&feature=related
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Houston Self Defense Shooting CCW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1evT61Qp_Q&feature=related
right on!
The Brady Campaign
Making Statistics One Defenseless Victim at a Time
The Brady Camp, and anti gun nuts in general, are creating dead, beaten and raped victims every day in this country. They do this by convincing YOU that by YOU not carrying a gun to defend yourself that somehow you are contributing to reducing crime. But, are YOU a criminal? If YOU carried a gun would you suddenly lose your mind and go on a killing rampage?
The Brady camp knows that there are violent criminals out there. And they know if these criminals somehow target YOUR family like they do so many others in this country that YOU will be defenseless by listening to their rhetoric and their false statistics.
Are YOU naive enough and ignorant enough to give YOUR life up, and your families lives up, to some crack head criminal who doesn't care in the least if he bashes in your sons skull or rapes your daughter and butchers her afterward....just to win points with the Brady camp nuts?
Is YOUR family so worthless to you that you will let some man like Paul Helmke tell YOU that you can't be trusted with a tool to defend your family from these predators?
Why do you let Brady tell you how YOU will behave if you own a gun? Why do you let them allow YOU to let YOUR family be unprotected just so THEY can spew out feel good rhetoric so even bigger idiots than you will continue to support them?
What does Brady lose or gain if YOU listen to their idiocy and YOUR wife is raped when she could have saved herself by simply having a gun ?
See what happens when a woman has a gun?
See this video: Woman kills her returning rapist with shotgun No gun = a raped woman.
Gun = unraped woman and a dead ass rapist.
No one wants to admit that the Brady camp MAKES dead victims. They CREATE raped women. They FACILITATE defenseless prey who are beaten, raped, robbed, stabbed, shot....murdered.
And they do it because YOU let them because YOU are too much of a hive mind drone that you can't think and reason for yourself. Do you think Paul Helke gives a rats rear about YOUR wife...YOUR son...YOUR daughter? No...he doesnt.
All the Brady Camp cares about is making sure YOU are DEFENSELESS. To them if you are murdered...if your wife is savagely raped and beaten to death....if you son is ripped apart by some lunatic with a knife, all Brady sees is that you are one more statistic. Gun rights groups are fighting for YOUR RIGHT to DEFEND yourself even if YOU don't presently understand that fact. Gun rights advocates want YOU to have the POWER to PROTECT yourself...your wife...your daughters and your sons...even if you cant accept that fact.
You may call us gun nuts. You may think we are paranoid. But the fact is that there are millions of defenseless victims in the USA every year.
Will your wife be one of them tomorrow? Will your family? You may not think so but crime happens every day...and it happens to someone just like you and me. Will YOU be next? And if you are can you do anything to stop it? Honestly?
I just got back from Starbuck's,they didn't know anything abount any boycott! One clerk told me that if it would keep they whiners and complainers away then bring it on.
Those who want to prevent Ameicans from having guns need to work on overturning the 2nd Ammendment and get out of the coffee business. A country without guns is more susceptible to invasion, that is one reason the Japanese didn't invade us on the ground. And consider if every Jew in Europe had a gun in WWII. Then how many crooks consider gun laws before they decide to invade your home or rob you on the street.... all of them.
Repealing the Second Amendment won't get it. The SCOTUS has already held that the right exists independent of any legal instrument, including the Constitution.
Therefore, if the amendment were repealed, we still retain the right to keep and bear arms, and at that point, for the purpose of removing a tyrannical government per the overarching right enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.
I never thought the 2nd Amendment could be repealed just being facetious. Wonder if anyone will comment on my other points?