Chuck Baldwin ;Hooray for Starbucks
By Chuck Baldwin
March 2, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
The major news media was replete with reports over the weekend that the coffee company, Starbucks, "has no problem with customers packing heat while placing their orders."
"The coffee giant says it won't take issue with gun owners who take advantage of 'open carry' laws and bring firearms into their restaurant." (Source: NBC News)
To tell you the truth, I'm not sure why this is even considered "newsworthy." Perhaps because Starbucks is a Seattle-based company that caters to the "yuppie" crowd? Maybe because the anti-gun national news media is shocked and chagrined at Starbucks' statement? Who knows? That Starbucks would not want to alienate millions of gun owners (many of whom lawfully carry concealed weapons for personal protection) makes perfectly good sense to me. I'm sure the statement by Starbucks has little to do with guns and everything to do with business. But the fact is, there are tens of thousands of lawfully armed citizens who carry either concealed or open that have been peacefully doing business with thousands of companies around the country for years.
At last glance, 12 states allow unrestricted open carry. Those states are Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota, Vermont, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia. Plus, at least 13 other states allow restricted open carry (meaning a permit is required). I know it infuriates gun-grabbing liberals to admit this, but the facts are absolutely undeniable that an armed citizenry is far and away a more civilized and peaceful citizenry.
Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and our third President Thomas Jefferson rightly said, "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
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This came out right after an
This came out right after an incident in California, when the open-carry people got some press about their meeting in restaurants around the SF Bay area (among others), an anti-gun group staged a call-in to some of the places they meet, and one or two of the places (notably California Pizza Kitchen) announced a policy of banning open carry on their property.
(This may not have been the ONLY such incident leading to the word from headquarters. But it was the one I heard about on local news.)
When I heard that I said "I bet Starbucks will be OK with it." Shortly thereafter there was such a statement in the news. (Not sure if it was from headquarters or if this was from the local outlet and headquarters published later. Media news here is detail-lite.)
IMHO this is because Starbucks is from Seattle. Though Seattle is viewed as a "liberal" part of Washington state, Washington state's people are pretty solidly pro-gun, many who are otherwise what one would think of as left-wing.
(Remember that the OLD left understood that disarmament was directed at people like THEM.)
I don't assume this is just money talking. Starbucks has a lot to LOSE over this, too. They're perceived as the place the left-wing elite pay big bucks for designer coffee and atmosphere. Their selling point is not the quality of the coffee itself. If the lefty sheep decide to boycott the chain could lose far more than they gain.
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"Obama’s Economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per Job."
That means: For each job "created or saved" about five were destroyed.
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bucks for the star
(and a 396 at that).
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5 Aug 2007
Get on it peopls
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Cedar Park, Texas
5 Aug 2007
Too bad their coffee beans
Too bad their coffee beans are burnt to make the taste. You couldn't pay me enough money to drink that crap.
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