After Starbucks Success, Gun Control Advocates Target Staples

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Who couldn't have seen this coming?

Perhaps, it might be in our best interest this time around, to not have an open carry Staples appreciation day.

Until this month, coffee lovers with a hankering for a soy latte were welcome to bring their loaded weapons into Starbucks outlets nationwide.

That is, until Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wrote an open letter to Americans making a “respectful request” that java junkies leave their guns at home.

Schultz didn’t ban guns from the coffee giant’s stores, but he made it clear they’re not welcome, state-by-state “open carry” laws notwithstanding.

Now, with one major victory under their belts, gun control advocates are setting their sights on another large, publicly traded chain.

“We’re moving on from Starbucks to Staples ,” said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a group of 110,000 grassroots activists formed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Conn.


After Starbucks Success, Gun Control Advocates Target Staples - Forbes
 
Who ****ing cares really? These loons can go eat a massive terd. I don't give a shit if they wanna ban my gun in every ****ing store on the planet I'm still going to carry it.
 
I went to school with the staples founders kid. Good family. He still worked a minimum wage job through highschool.

Mike

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[rofl] Their "demand a plan" for mag limits, AWB, background checks and other bs went down in flames so now they are begging for pennies like some bum on the corner. The BIG, I say BIG win at Starbucks was the would rather you didn't open carry but if you do, they are not doing a thing about it. WOW, what a win.

And if any of these hags are married, their husbands buy porn by the truckload and have hookers on speed dial.
 
So when a mall somewhere in middle America erupts in something similar to Nairobi and there are no armed citizens and real security forces are far and few will gun free zones still be the standard? Just a thought.
 
Very true, I know I'd shop elsewhere and my bosses would too. Office despot would become my go-to, which sucks cause staples is usually better.
+1

1) I USED TO stop into CharBux once or twice per year to meet someone, not anymore until they recant.

2) Any organization that follows the StatistBucks course of action will lose all of my business to the maximum amount of my abilities.

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Have I missed something? Do gun owners usually congregate at Staples for some reason? I pop in only once and awhile for printer ink if I run out and need it in a hurry but that's the extent of hanging out at Staples for me.
No, but I assume that lots and lots of biz owners are pro-2a and/or CCW, therefore pissing off CCWs might cost them a substantial amount of money.
 
I love how there was no real victory with Starbucks, the CEO basically just told gun owners to tone it down a bit with the open carry protests,

the empty threat of, your not welcome to carry but if you do don't worry about it, just proves the sheeple are easily fooled

I don't like that Starbucks did this but when 2A people are using your store front as a center of there protests it makes it not surprising
 
Boycotting Starbucks because they told both sides they didn't want to be in the middle? Lol...
Because they chose poorly. What tf do you think we should do, flock there in numbers? I choose to do business elsewhere, to find a 2A supporting business empire, or at least an ACTUALLY neutral one.

Unless you want every business to kindly request we disarm before we enter and some Linsky makes it a felony not to heed the request.

The CEO just said that the other side is right to be afraid and the best thing for me to do is this, instead of "listen, they have a right to their arms, and I am not going to make them unwelcome here, but I ask them to not open carry in my stores". That would have been a compromise. They caved while trying to not alienate us. I guess their PR firm succeeded with you.
 
I love how there was no real victory with Starbucks, the CEO basically just told gun owners to tone it down a bit with the open carry protests,

the empty threat of, your not welcome to carry but if you do don't worry about it, just proves the sheeple are easily fooled

I don't like that Starbucks did this but when 2A people are using your store front as a center of there protests it makes it not surprising
That's not what he did. He took sides but tried to placate us. You were just told in no uncertain terms not to bring your gun into his store. In several states that is in fact binding if what I've learned on NES is true. So with a stroke of a Press Release he made some of our brethren trespassers because of their guns in a coffee shop. And as you see here, that will only grow.

Like Comm 2A learning the hard way about which lawsuits to bring and which to not, we need to learn that the tactics we employed failed and not to repeat them. So we won't open carry to Staples. We must be nimble and respond differently. How?
 
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Did you watch the video? Nothing he said was binding, and he also flat out said that they aren't banning guns in their stores. Furthermore, he stated that people open carrying in their stores will still be served like they had before. Nothing has changed. It was a brilliant tactical move on his part. Placate the libtards with words while nothing actually changed.
 
Colion Noir just equated this to being told not to bring your mixed-race couple hood into the store. Then he went on not to call for a boycott. "To the drive through!" He yelled.

Aha. How stupid of us. It just dawned on me.

Colion Noir just rewarded Starbucks that instead of taking up a chair for 3 hours with his coffee he would give them the same profit and NOT take up a chair of theirs for 3 hours.

Then it dawned on me. This is a civil rights protest. At a restaurant. Protesting not being welcome to exercise your rights at a restaurant. Hmmmm, how has that been successful before?

We need to all go to SBux and bring along something to read... Order a small coffee and sit there for hours and hours. UNARMED. Maybe reading books about guns... To make a FIRST amendment point, too. To take away from other customers what they love about sbux, the sitting there for hours... To legally sit there taking up space like every other moonbat college student. Make their other customers be inconvenienced.

Thoughts?
 
And pacifist. Sit there in your 2A t-shirts, nursing that 4 hour old small coffee. What are they going to do? Search us for weapons? Demand that we leave, change store policy limiting table time? Make certain t-shirts unwelcome? Certain books? And when the moonbats treat us like they did Petreus we just put our heads down on the table... No confrontation... One person video taping.
 
So when a mall somewhere in middle America erupts in something similar to Nairobi and there are no armed citizens and real security forces are far and few will gun free zones still be the standard? Just a thought.
They will just want them expanded farther out. It will be obvious the mall being gun free was not a big enough zone. [slap]
 
i open carried in staples once.

was buying register tape for a gun store. (acme, naturally!)

got compliments on my gun and my acme t-shirt.

suck it, haters.
 
given what happened in Kenya, I find Moms Demand Action to be a nihilistic, anti human group bent on encouraging more death and tragedy. I don't subscribe to their lunacy nor will I appease them by disarming.

I have to thank these shriveled shrews for one thing, they and many others like them, have emboldened me to stand up for the rights we're set to lose. to reach out to others in the gun owning community and of course, to carry more often.

Your fears and your ignorance will not supersede my right to self preservation.
 
I think I have figured out the problem

"Moms demand action"

They haven't got any in so long they forgot what action means. Who is going to take one for the team? Calling Blitz!
 
Good thing they will keep the law abiding citizens out of there. Any criminals feel like shooting up the place can feel free to do so more safely.
 
That's not what he did. He took sides but tried to placate us. You were just told in no uncertain terms not to bring your gun into his store. In several states that is in fact binding if what I've learned on NES is true. So with a stroke of a Press Release he made some of our brethren trespassers because of their guns in a coffee shop. And as you see here, that will only grow.

Like Comm 2A learning the hard way about which lawsuits to bring and which to not, we need to learn that the tactics we employed failed and not to repeat them. So we won't open carry to Staples. We must be nimble and respond differently. How?

Ya here in MA it means nothing so that's how I looked at it, my bad in forgetting the other state policies differ greatly,

I do not like what he did but it is easy to see why it happened, the moonbats play the guns are a liability and its for the children cards and just played on the fears of them losing money to push this,

and from what I here we did not help our cause to well with some of the protest methods used. There is much to learn from this
 
i open carried in staples once.

was buying register tape for a gun store. (acme, naturally!)

got compliments on my gun and my acme t-shirt.

suck it, haters.

Atilla you are open carry,

I don't even know what that means, but it just sounds appropriate
 
Id be nervous/more on edge if someone walked into a resteraunt/coffee shop I was in with a long gun for reasons other than an organized protest. Why? Because its not normal, its paranoia or attention whoring. Ocing a handgun on the other hand...

By the way, I love how statist keeps getting tossed around. Starbucks is a private company with facilities located on private property. If the borderline obnoxious actions by open carriers are causing them to lose business, than they have a right to tell them to screw off. Thats not statist at all. But it is the new anarcho-NES fanboi word.

Mike

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Funny thing is, most of these shrews are squalking about " It's for the children"
Meanwhile theirs are be raised by some nanny or at a sitter all day, while their off saving the world.
Most of them would rather be doing anything but stay home and actually raise their own kids.
It's their kids who will grow up social misfits.
 
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