Some of the events were spontaneous, with just one or two gun owners walking into a store. Others were organized parades of dozens of gun owners walking into restaurants with their firearms proudly at their sides.Let's be honest here, this is not about rights and freedoms, this is about pissing off coffee-drinking liberals, and whenever that's possible, you'll find teabaggers lining up around the block to do it. There's a message here being sent when a group of openly armed individuals come into a social establishment where the people there are not armed, and it's the same message that it has been for the thousands of years that this has been done, whether it's swords, spears, or guns: get out or else.
Now, gun control advocates are protesting the policy. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, launched a petition drive demanding that the company ''offer espresso shots, not gunshots'' and declare its coffeehouses ''gun-free zones.'' And Wednesday, that group delivered 28,000 signatures to the coffee giant's headquarters in Seattle.
The group also held a press conference near Seattle's Pike Place Market, just a few yards away from where the first Starbucks cafe opened. Gun rights advocates showed up as well, some carrying handguns in holsters around their waists.
Brian Malte of the Brady Campaign said carrying guns intimidates and frightens people, and said the group thinks Starbucks will ''do the right thing'' and change its policy.
''They're putting their workers in harm's way by allowing people to carry guns into their stores, especially open carry,'' Malte said.
More than a dozen pro-gun supporters, some with Starbucks coffee cups in hand, chanted during the press conference, at points interrupting speakers.
''I think the (Brady campaign is) trying to strong-arm private businesses into banning the rights of the people,'' said Bev Carman of Everett, Wash. Carman held a sign that said: ''Criminal Control not Gun Control.''
It's all about power and threatening people with it. Scared, angry teabaggers see themselves losing "their" country, and they're not going to accede to that decline without a fight. It's intimidation, pure and simple. Open carry in a public place like that is a warning and a threat, period. Takes a big man to walk into a coffee joint packing heat to protect himself against college kids, baristas and hipsters.
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Yes its a big conspiracy against liberals...I'm sure the world is closing in on you right now. You dont need coffee you have the Obama kool-aid. I've seen plenty of people who have concealed carry license with a weapon and ya know what? It doesn't bother me a damn bit because I do what most liberals should do, mind my own fucking business. If you walk in and try to take his gun or tell him he can't have it I wouldn't blame him for pistol whipping you. It doesn't hurt you nor affect you leave it and them alone. That's the problem with liberalism, you need to worry about yourself and not others. If someone is in need of help that's one thing, but to poke your nose into someones life who obviously doesn't want you there is just an annoyance.
You know, the only thing that goes through my head when I see this is "This is not going to end well. This is not going to end well at all."
You act like these guys are all nut jobs and going to pull out a gun and shoot somebody. They're not junkies from the inner city fighting over turf or a hooker...they're everyday working men and women. Yes some people lose it and shoot someone but those people generally don't have a concealed carry anyway.
Oh hey, our anonymous crusader for libertarian truthiness and justice shat here already. And of course, he proves that libertarianism is the politics of the self-absorbed idiot.
And now it's the classic line "why should I give a shit about what I do". Because, you know, it's illogical that people might be rather intimidated by some strange person walking in, openly carrying a weapon, and acting as if daring someone to complain? And then pistol whipping someone who did?
Pistol whipping. Seriously.
Gee, it's not like they'd be worried it might be another (yes, another) right-wing jagoff looking to hunt some dirty fucking hippies! That would be illogical, and libertarian is the way of truth, logic, and mighty penises!
Yanno, one thinks that the difference between a pro-gun liberal and a jackoff like this dude is that the liberal knows that openly carrying a gun into a crowded public place tends to be a bad idea. Not to mention a very douchebaggy idea.
But hey, libertarian. Politics of the douchebag. Natch.
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Also, seriously. "Inner city junkie", "obviously not everyday working men and women"?
Yanno, just because you THINK we can't hear fucking dogwhistles does not make it so.
Morning there Star, Anonytroll.
If I see somebody carrying a gun openly in a fucking Starbucks, yes, I question their judgment.
Yeah, pretty much, Zandar. Not to mention the maturity of someone who feels the need to open carry in a Starbucks. Even to the point where I'd be doubting they have the requisite maturity and judgement to be a responsible gun owner.
Probably quietly, considering anonytroll's desire to pistol whip anyone who might think that openly carrying in a crowded place might be a bad idea. But hey, he got to scare some dirty fucking hippies. Yay and shit.
As an aside, I picked this up on TPM, I think you might like it.
http://cbs13.com/local/ashburn.arrest.dui.2.1534505.html
It is not known if he drives with a wide stance.
Yes because they woke up and said "Imma get my gun and my coffee!"
Or maybe they were going other places, generally people don't just get coffee and go back home, they go out and do things, shop, or maybe go to a shooting range. Again you're sticking your nose into someones life, don't.
Also yes, people who carry guns are looking to shoot a hippie, that's why they carry them...cause there's so many cases in the news about that. There's a difference between fact and fiction, start learning it. Just because someone CAN doesn't mean someone WILL, just because you think they MIGHT doesn't mean that they are GOING TO. Again maybe it's just me but why do you care? You really think he's going to pull that gun out and shoot you? Sure he might, but there's the same odds that someone else could walk in and rob the place. You're getting all worked up over this and blowing things out of proportion to try and prove a point that should be left up to the states. If the state allows you to conceal carry or have the weapon and you don't like it, MOVE. That's the beauty of the very freedom that you are fighting to take away, if you don't like something you can just move away from it, you don't have to deal with it. If you don't like that someone carried a gun to that starbucks go to another. They are on every street corner.
In the end it's quite amusing how a liberal can't tell the difference between reality and his own little fantasy.
If I went to Starbucks, which I don't, I wouldn't anymore.
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