The family is enjoying Starbucks on Saturday

[Dugout Dad]

Some idiot anti-gun group wants everyone to boycott them.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/23/skip-starbucks-saturday_n_3800127.html

[Safebyahare]

I make my own coffee,,,,but I don't make my own ammo.
I will buy what they ask on Saturday, just because I am that way.
I will remove a piece of their stage. To construct a bigger better stage.

[DonnieS]

I don't go to Starbucks but I will tomorrow.

Same here, I like my own cooking in everything - but its Starbucks tomorrow - and maybe for lunch, Chik-Filet in honor of another attempt of this.

[blackwidow]

Rally For Gun Background Checks Quickly Becomes Pro-Gun Event

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/201 ... event.html

What happens when you throw a rally and no one shows except the opposition?

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[Dugout Dad]

I would guess that 95% of Starbucks' employees are liberals, so every time I go in a buy my venti drip, I tell the barista that I am buying their coffee because of their company's pro-gun stance. The look on their face is priceless, worth the $2.25

[DonnieS]

I would guess that 95% of Starbucks' employees are liberals, so every time I go in a buy my venti drip, I tell the barista that I am buying their coffee because of their company's pro-gun stance. The look on their face is priceless, worth the $2.25

Good point - I will tell the counter clerk the same. (barista means counter clerk in Sicilian)

[DonnieS]

I would guess that 95% of Starbucks' employees are liberals, so every time I go in a buy my venti drip, I tell the barista that I am buying their coffee because of their company's pro-gun stance. The look on their face is priceless, worth the $2.25

Good point - I will tell the counter clerk the same. (barista means counter clerk in Sicilian)

I thought it meant "one who overcharges for coffee"

That's in Comanche.

[Dugout Dad]

It took longer than I thought for them to cave in.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/starbucks-guns-policy_n_3945390.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl29%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D377144

[PDad]

It took longer than I thought for them to cave in.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/starbucks-guns-policy_n_3945390.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl29%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D377144

Starbucks has tried to remain neutral in this. Their refusal to ban guns in their stores was never a pro-gun stance - it was an attempt to not take a side by deferring to local laws. I believe their request now for non-LE people to not bring guns into their stores is really aimed at the people that are doing it as a political statement. I think these excerpts sum it up.

The request is being made in part because more people have been bringing guns into Starbucks over the last six months, prompting confusion and dismay among some patrons and employees, Schultz told Reuters in an interview.
...
"We've seen the 'open carry' debate become increasingly uncivil and, in some cases, even threatening," Schultz wrote, noting that "some anti-gun activists have also played a role in ratcheting up the rhetoric and friction," at times soliciting and confronting employees and patrons.

"We found ourselves in a position where advocates on both sides of the issue were using Starbucks as a staging ground for their own political position," he told Reuters.

Anyone have a better way for Starbucks to extricate themselves from the debate?

[Dugout Dad]

It took longer than I thought for them to cave in.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/starbucks-guns-policy_n_3945390.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl29%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D377144

Starbucks has tried to remain neutral in this. Their refusal to ban guns in their stores was never a pro-gun stance - it was an attempt to not take a side by deferring to local laws. I believe their request now for non-LE people to not bring guns into their stores is really aimed at the people that are doing it as a political statement. I think these excerpts sum it up.

The request is being made in part because more people have been bringing guns into Starbucks over the last six months, prompting confusion and dismay among some patrons and employees, Schultz told Reuters in an interview.
...
"We've seen the 'open carry' debate become increasingly uncivil and, in some cases, even threatening," Schultz wrote, noting that "some anti-gun activists have also played a role in ratcheting up the rhetoric and friction," at times soliciting and confronting employees and patrons.

"We found ourselves in a position where advocates on both sides of the issue were using Starbucks as a staging ground for their own political position," he told Reuters.

Anyone have a better way for Starbucks to extricate themselves from the debate?

I agree, I was just making a point that I was surprised that they made it this long .

A bunch of liberal bullies; agree with us or else. I guess their boycott was not working so they started to intimidate customers and employees.
"We've seen the 'open carry' debate become increasingly uncivil and, in some cases, even threatening," Schultz wrote, noting that "some anti-gun activists have also played a role in ratcheting up the rhetoric and friction," at times soliciting and confronting employees and patrons.

Starbucks handled it well from a community relations standpoint, I guess.

The downside is now they can get robbed without the crooks fearing someone may produce a gun in defense.