The Brady Bunch is spinning out about Starbucks now…
Over the past few months, more and more gun owners have been gathering at restaurants and coffee shops like Starbucks with guns strapped to their hips, intimidating fellow patrons.
Businesses can legally create policies to prohibit guns from being carried in their establishments – and so far, Peet’s Coffee & Tea and California Pizza Kitchen have heeded customer concerns and barred open carrying.
But Starbucks is refusing to prohibit the open carrying of firearms in its stores, despite protests from loyal customers.
The practice of packing heat in places like Starbucks is intimidating and could be potentially dangerous to our families and communities – and it must be stopped at Starbucks.
It’s everyone’s right to be able to sit in a restaurant or coffee shop with their families without intimidation or fear of guns, either concealed or openly carried. Under the law, Starbucks has the right to adopt a gun-free policy, with an exception for uniformed police officers. Such a policy can easily be implemented in most cases by putting up signs at store entrances.
It is critical that we tell Starbucks to bar guns in its stores. These individuals who have been carrying guns into Starbucks have all the firepower of a SWAT team, and none of the law enforcement training.
These individuals who have been carrying guns into Starbucks have all the firepower of a SWAT team, and none of the law enforcement training.
Sniper rifles, Full autos and Shorty shotguns slung while sipping coffee? Really? I should start going to Starbucks! That’d be a sight to see. I do wonder how they got inside the heads of these villians to know they don’t have any of the training though.
I open carried in one of their stores in Texas back during the hurricane in 2008 when I was doing some very basic security stuff for Armor Group. The guy behind the counter knocked my 8 dollar coffee order down to 2 dollars. I told him he must of made a mistake but he insisted that anyone who can wear a firearm into the store deserves a discount and thanks very much for helping out.
It’s everyone’s right to be able to sit in a restaurant or coffee shop with their families without intimidation or fear of guns, either concealed or openly carried.
Who really is intimidated or goes around in fear of the possibility of a concealed firearm carried by a law-abiding citizen other than Brady Bunch whackjobs?
I met one who was scared of Spongebob this week. Fifteen kids sat there quite happily watching and she wants it taken off the TV as she doesn’t want her two children exposed to it.
There’s no arguing with them either, be it guns or whatever.
It’s everyone’s right to be able to sit in a restaurant or coffee shop with their families without intimidation or fear of guns, either concealed or openly carried.
No, it isn’t. That “right” exists nowhere in Anglo-American law, let alone in a position that supercedes the enumerated right to keep and bear arms. If you are so scared of holstered guns that you can’t even be near them without wetting yourself, you are the one with the problem.
These individuals who have been carrying guns into Starbucks have all the firepower of a SWAT team, and none of the law enforcement training.
I don’t know about you guys, but I always throw on my plate carrier, grab my helmet and SBR, and strap on my thigh rig when I make a Starbucks run. Can’t be too careful these days.
Agreed. It cuts way down on the pushing and shoving in the waiting line.
Good for Starbucks! I usually treat myself on Friday mornings with a cup of their coffee. I’m going to up that to twice a week now. I support businesses that support me.
Starbucks would be dumb to alienate customer base especially when people are cutting down on expenses, and $4 coffee everyday is one of the first things to go.
Thank you for refusing to pander to the anti-Second Amendment groups who would have you create crime zones at your stores by restricting the right of law abiding individuals to legally carry firearms.
I will proudly patronize Starbucks and encourage others to do the same.
