Call for Boycott of Starbucks on Valentine's Day Over Gun Policy
An anti-gun group is attempting to organize a nationwide Valentine's Day boycott of Starbucks over the coffee chain's gun policy.
Starbucks does not ban guns in its stores; rather, it defers to local laws. The National Gun Victim's Action Council (NGAC) says that amounts to a pro-gun policy that endangers customers.
"Starbucks allowing guns to be carried in thousands of their stores significantly increases everyone's risk of being a victim of gun violence," NGAC CEO Elliot Fineman said in a news release. "Open and conceal and carry are among the reasons there are 12,000 gun homicides each year in the U.S. If we had England's gun laws we would expect 375 gun homicides each year—97% less than we have. England's gun laws are based on protecting public safety, ours on maximizing sales for the gun industry."
The Starbucks policy hit the headlines in 2010 when gun owners decided to exercise their rights at national chains. Many responded by banning guns, but Starbucks refused. At the time Starbucks explained:
While we deeply respect the views of all our customers, Starbucks long-standing approach to this issue remains unchanged. We comply with local laws and statutes in all the communities we serve. That means we abide by the laws that permit open carry in 43 U.S. states. Where these laws don’t exist, openly carrying weapons in our stores is prohibited. The political, policy and legal debates around these issues belong in the legislatures and courts, not in our stores.
But NGAC's Fineman said it is just a bad policy, and hopes its boycott can change it.
"Starbucks steadfast support of the NRA's lethal pro-gun agenda damages its 'socially conscious company' brand," he said.
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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?
The more I hear about Starbucks, the more I like it. First they think how they can help the communities that made them huge in the first place (microfinance loans), and then they decide that they want to respect our constitutional rights.
For the record, I'd much rather go to them for a business loan than any bank not intelligent or capable of surviving on its own steam when times are tough. They may not have done as well as they had previously, but never needed interest free loans from the public...
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"England's gun laws are based on protecting public safety"
How's that working for them? 2,034 viloent crimes per 100,000 residents in England as opposed to the US's 466 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html
For every person that boycotts Starbucks on valentine's, we need two law-abiding people to purchase something at Starbucks. I don't usually drink coffee unless I go with my wife. This valentine's day I'll make a special trip and buy some gift cards, which should make up for the boycotters in my area.
I dont even go to SB's normally but since this boycott I have been.
It would appear that Starbucks recognizes the law and obeys it despite the rantings and ravings of a vocal minority determined to have it's way regardless of what the majority wants. Anti-gunners have Peet's but then Peet's is not doing that great is it?So now the Anti-gun people want to move in on Starbucks as their new home and ruin it as well if they can.Guns do not kill people on their own. A gun needs a human hand behind it so why aren't the anti gun people working on elimninating the people who would use guns to kill with. I guess that can't work becuase that would mean someone taking responsibility for their actions wouldn't it and God forbid an anti-gunner would ask someone to do that.
Thumbs up for Starbucks
There are many in the gun community that are arming up with three $2 bills. The $2 bill (representing the Second Amendment) is rare and will send a message to Starbucks that the pro 2A crowd will give them business, not deny them business. The reason for three $2 bills is that we intend to support Starbucks not only on the 14th when the anti gunners will boycott but on the 13th and 15th as well. A chain like Starbucks that refuses to enter the issue and potentially stifle us good citizens deserves our support.
Thanks for the info. I don't normally go to starbucks because I'm to cheap but I'll make a special trip this valentines day.