Starbucks asks the children to "Leave the toys at home"

Blazer Bob wrote:

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Rick wrote: I don't understand why this is some big news story

I'm sure Starbucks doesn't want any kind of toxic debates in their stores, they want to sell coffee in peace. As if it's a common accurance to see people carrying openly anyway.

99% of subterfuge and bullshit posted by blazer bob and other righties on this board are less news than this and you make a fucked up comment like this, your a sad soul rick, sad.
I never seen such a whiny bunch of righty losers than I see here, and you bitch about LJ and VL.... wow.

Get a life.

Blazer Bob wrote:

netdude wrote:

Rick wrote: I don't understand why this is some big news story

I'm sure Starbucks doesn't want any kind of toxic debates in their stores, they want to sell coffee in peace. As if it's a common accurance to see people carrying openly anyway.

99% of subterfuge and bullsh** posted by blazer bob and other righties on this board are less news than this and you make a f***ed up comment like this, your a sad soul rick, sad.
I never seen such a whiny bunch of righty losers than I see here, and you bitch about LJ and VL.... wow.

Get a life.

Wow, not sure why you took such offense to my opinion, but it sounds like someone peed in your Cherios little man. Have you seen lots of people carrying openly in Starbucks? I'll admit I don't go there on a daily basis so maybe I'm missing out on all the open gun toters.

Gee, Bob, another irrelevant cartoon... Imagine my surprise....

Well, we always know when you run out of relevant things to say.

Go to AZ....you see open carry everywhere, at the dog park there are several who carry guns, walking down our sleepy little street people are carrying, there is a fight going on over the rec center not allowing guns in the exercise rooms and at member meetings. The gun enthusiasts are going to push too far and the push back may well surprise them.

LadyJazzer wrote:

Starbucks Guns Policy: Coffee Chain Asks Patrons To Leave Weapons At Home (VIDEO)

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," he said in the open letter.

"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.

"I'm not worried we're going to lose customers over this," Schultz said, noting he and others at Starbucks considered the concerns of customers, employees and investors. "I feel like I've made the best decision in the interest of our company."

I know how tempting it is to want to show off your Red Ryder/Mattel "Fanner-50" double-action, semi-automatic toys with the leg-tie-down-strap and all... But I guess Starbucks has had enough of "show-and-tell" at their stores.....

I see no issue here. They can make everyone wear pick if that is what they want. They have the good tasting drugs, people want them. I would like to see them put more hurdles in front of the goods so we can watch. In fact some real hurdles would make a cool youtube video.

Now to think that this has much to do with gun violence, now that would be childish.

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Now to think that this has much to do with gun violence, now that would be childish.

Exactly. We don't see a rash violence perpetrated by people who are legally carrying openly.