Posted on 08/09/2013 3:10:52 AM PDT by raybbr
Gun rights advocates across the country plan to openly carry firearms at Starbucks coffee shops on Friday in appreciation of the company's policy that allows gun owners to do so in states that it is legal.
Some gun owners in Connecticut said Thursday they plan on open carrying their firearms at a Newtown store on Friday.
On the Facebook group, "Starbucks appreciation day," the event's organizers say, "Starbucks is allowing us to lawfully carry firearms in their store. Recently, they have been the target of unjust attacks from certain groups that do not support our right to bear arms. We will thank starbucks (sic) for standing up for our right to bear arms by going there on Friday...
"We ask that if you choose to carry a firearm during this event that you follow all local, state, and national laws; and if you choose not to carry that you wear pro-gun rights apparel," according to the page.
The page bears a recreation of the Starbucks logo showing the mermaid holding two guns and bearing the slogan "I love guns & coffee."
Matt Bottali, a gun rights advocate from Ridgefield, posted on his Facebook page, and the CT Open Carry group page, that he will be openly carrying at the Newtown Starbucks on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nhregister.com ...
"Our community is still healing and we find it reprehensible that they are picking #Newtown to rally, said David Ackert, a spokesperson for Newtown Action Alliance. "It is disturbing to think that tomorrow night you and your children may be sitting in Starbucks when people carrying guns walk through the door."
I hope they don't cry.
Oh so NOW they llip to the conservative side as it becomes more fashionable to do so to up their sales after supporting LGBT marriage after watching JC Penney go down the toilet.
They better hope their heads don't explode from the internal pressure when they see what real freedom means.
If someone offers you their hand and a hot cup of Joe... you thank them. We do want to encourage freedom wherever it blossoms.
ping!
Interesting...
Starbucks was not known for their appreciation of gunnies for a long time. That’s one of the reasons I never went there.
They still serve swill for coffee.
> If someone offers you their hand and a hot cup of Joe... you thank them. We do want to encourage freedom wherever it blossoms.
Take it when you can get it but be mindful of the context and history in which its given
Outstanding advice.
LLS
2. I know that there is an existing "Victim Class", especially here in lovely liberal CT.
3. It seems to me that being compassionate and sensitive to a community that might just be a little skittish when it comes to firearms for a while, might not be such a bad thing.
Yes, some of them might, in fact, cry. Some of them, like my friend's 10 year old son and 7 year old daughter, might react quite negatively when confronted with the sight of a gun. The 10 year old now wanders around his house daily, obsessively checking that all of the doors are locked. He will not settle down to sleep until he has gotten up twice to check them. Recently, the noise from a fireworks show in the distance, was enough to send the both of them into sobbing fits of terror. These kids are both in therapy, as are the parents.
I should also note that both parents were raised around firearms, and although fairly liberal, have no real opposition to guns, other than the obvious sensitivity to them.
So perhaps we could not just paint everyone with such a broad brush, and realize that there are real issues here.
Good job, Starbux.
Any CT FReepers coming to the Newtown Starbucks tonight? See you there!
And the comparison to a plane or car crash is apples and oranges, not even close to being the same. This is not a rights issue, would you have open carried in Newtown before? How many people just walk around Newtown open carrying? You have your rights, and they have their trauma and fears. When you blatently go there and do this, it is a dick move, nothing more. Go to the freakin Starbucks near the state capitol to demonstrate.
I’ll be there !
I also know MORE people who won’t get in a car because of accidents they’ve been involved in, or witnessed.
Why aren’t you whining to the people that launched fire works for being ‘insensitive’? Or go sue everyone in town that accidentally makes a loud noise. Schools are about to start again and is anyone saying they shouldn’t? No. Trust me, pound for pound that is going to cause more terror since more kids will be there than at Starbucks. My life is not dictated by other people’s neuroses. This is not different than every freaking new article about guns always adding a reference to some tragedy or another. Every article about someone standing up for 2A rights ends with, “This comes X weeks after XZY nut job killed ## people at LMNOP location.” As if we should be ashamed at insisting on rights in such an insensitive way. Screw that! Sensitivity is why they band open carry and concealed carry in most states ages ago. It took us DECADES of tragedies before people started insisting on overturning those laws. We will NOT crawl back in our holes because someone whines and cries. That same logic will ban open carry everywhere and concealed before long. We can’t never never never back down.
First of all, I am not whining about anything. I am saying that if a sudden loud noise is enough to set these kids off, what do you think being confronted with weapons is going to do? I am saying that having a bunch of people open-carrying in Newtown, where severly traumatized kids could be suddenly face to face with guns, just because you can, is a complete a$$h*1e act. Again, go open carry in Hartford. Be vocal about your rights, but don’t go shove it in the faces of the victims.
Ya thin Starbucks will be getting any of the 500,000.00 being doled out to small business affected by Lanzas insane actions?
Contrary to media spin and habitual tragedy exploiters, the number of us Newtown'ers choosing to exercise our unalienable 2nd Amendment Right is increasing!
Did all the cops in Newtown stop carrying guns out of sensitivity? No? Then buzz off.
That’s a good thing, as I said, I am pro-gun. I also don’t mean to say that everyone in Newtown is a victim.
Right. Because the cops who rescued them are the same as the psycho who slaughtered their classmates. Stop making false equivalancies to further your argument.
After the first mistep by them, soon corrected, I thought Starbucks has always allowed legal carry in their stores?
Uh, no. Starbucks policy has always been to just observe local laws. If concealed carry is legal, it's OK in their stores. If open carry is legal, that's OK in their stores. If it's not legal, then don't do it in their store. Pretty straightforward, and reasonable IMO.
YOU said the GUN is what terrified the kids. You implied they were so mindlessly terrified that any gun would be traumatic. Now you are changing tune.
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