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Starbucks Appreciation Day – Sunday Feb 21

by | 6:32 am, February 17, 2010 | 3 Comments

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Lawful Self Defense, an organization vocally opposing your right to private firearm ownership, has been losing their battles to disarm law-abiding citizens in federal, state, and local elections. They lose with their ballot initiatives on election days. They lose with their cases in the court system. They lose in the public opinion polls. And they are even losing with donations. The only thing they succeed at is, well, failing.

Now the anti-gun Brady Campaign has turned its sights (metaphorically speaking, since they wet their pants at the sight of a firearm) on private property. In particular, they’ve taken aim on Starbucks. The Brady organization claims to have 25,000 petition signatures demanding that Starbucks prohibit firearms in their privately owned coffee shops. You see, the Brady Campaign does not approve of law-abiding adults with permits to carry concealed handguns from doing so for self defense on public or private property. Furthermore, they also condemn the open carry of safely holstered handguns for self defense by law-abiding adults.

Starbucks’ response? They hurt the Brady folk’s feelings when they told them, “Starbucks does not have a corporate policy regarding customers and weapons; we defer to federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding this issue.” We need to reward Starbucks’ refusal to cave to the arrogant demands of the Brady Campaign – first by telling their corporate office that you enjoy their products and that you will continue to support their company because they support your right to self defense.

However, as free market advocates, we’re going to do more than just say thank you in emails – we’re going to thank Starbucks with our business. Joe Huffman has declared this Sunday February 21st to be Starbucks Appreciation Day. To quote Joe:

I would like to suggest we do this without an overt display of firearms. Our message of Starbucks Appreciation will be overshadowed by the known presence of firearms if we make having a firearm on our person the point of the message. Let’s keep it simple and let the barista and manager know why we’re making a purchase that day.

You can get the message across just as well by saying something like:

Please know I’m here because firearm owners across the country want to show Starbucks our appreciation for your decision not to ostracize customers who own and carry guns.

So on Sunday, tell the Brady Campaign to go to hell; then go buy a cup of Joe at Starbucks and make sure you thank both the barista and manager and let them know that you’re supporting Starbucks because Starbucks supports your right to self defense.

-Starbucks image with handguns is from Seattle Weekly.

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Comments

  1.   Chris Maj
      February 17th, 2010 @ 10:06 am

    I’m not suggesting you bring a soap box, but you could add, if time allows, “Please know I’m also here because drug war opponents across the country want to show Starbucks our appreciation for your decision not to ostracize customers who own and use marijuana; specifically, I’m drinking today in support of Starbucks’ recent decision to disassociate itself from the Colorado Drug Investigators Association. If the control freaks/government thugs/guys worried about their jobs at the CDIA had their way, then who knows, maybe they’d take us back to 20th century alcohol prohibition, or even as far back as Middle Eastern 16th century coffee prohibition. That’d be a bad quarter for Starbucks! Or, it could be the quarter when many more people learn that as an individual, you own your own body, and not the cops, the congress, or the king.”

    More on the good news from SAFER…

    “Round 1 to SAFER – Starbucks/CDIA Update”

    http://stopthedrugwar.org/in_the_trenches/2010/jan/26/round_1_to_safer_starbucks_cdia_

  2.   Starbucks AppreciAtion Day - INGunOwners
      February 21st, 2010 @ 11:35 am

    [...] Starbucks AppreciAtion Day Don't forget to stop by Starbucks today and remind them they made the right choice in not yielding to the Brady Campign. Starbucks Appreciation Day – Sunday Feb 21 : Peoples Press Collective [...]

  3.   edward aguilar
      February 21st, 2010 @ 5:53 pm

    i did indeed go to starbucks today and told them it was the first time ever in one of the shops.
    i took my .50 Kentucky long rifle with me and had a cup of coffee and apple fritter. i told them i was there to show support for the company\’s respect for the right of Americans to defend themselves. the coffee was ok too.

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