Star Bucks Boycott.................

[BassNut]

Sacramento Valley Shooting Center
Anti-gun groups are attempting to organize a boycott of Starbucks on February 14 of this year. You may or may not know that Starbucks refused to bend to anti-gun hysteria and turn their stores into victim disarmament zones by prohibiting the carrying of defensive arms by law abiding folk.

We as gun owners and armed citizens need to step forward and support business that support us. Please stop by your local Starbucks and pick up a coffee or pastry on Valentines Day. Save your receipt, an effort is being put together to show how our efforts overcame the opposition. Together we can show our resolve, it's an easy way to show how much we value our rights and our sport.

[CharonPDX]

As I posted in another forum:

Now, do I pick this, at the Starbucks nearest my work (which is also the one directly across the street from Portland Police central precinct - which often has uniformed officers present - up to and including the police chief,) to be my first open carry in the city of Portland?

If I can get others to commit to go, too, I think so. If we publicize it before-hand (to ensure we don't get a nasty police response,) we'd be fine. (There have been similar OC events in Portland Starbucks before - but there hasn't been a location across the street from central precinct for a previous one.)

[rrman12280]

I love coffee, but was never much on Starbuck's coffee. If this is true, I may have to start liking it just cause.

[BassNut]

I love coffee, but was never much on Starbuck's coffee. If this is true, I may have to start liking it just cause.

It is well documented and talked about as far as Starbucks stand against the anti's

[rrman12280]

Thank you. I have a new found love for Starbucks. Never followed them much before.

[creatism]

If their creme brule latte wasn't enough to get me in there. This absolutely is.

[Hamilton Felix]

This sounds like a good idea. If shooters all over the country pick up a latte at Starbuck's on the 14th, then maybe mail the receipt with a small thank you note to Starbucks....

[KCD1974]

Heck I don't even drink coffee, but I'll get 6 that day and mail in all my receipts lol

[kelcarry]

For the life of me I cannot understand how Starbucks ended up on the "pro side" of the gun/CC debate. I worked for them for 2 years and even though the urban legend (maybe) about them refusing to send coffee to soldiers in Iraq/Afghan may be untrue (have never been sure) I can tell you that the directive employees received vis a vis this controversy from years ago was that as a barista, who gets a free pound of coffee per week, the company encourages its employees to donate their pound of coffee to the troops. In other words Starbuck's "generosity" amounts to having $8 per hour employees somehow donate their $10 bag of coffee and then, I assume pay to have it shipped over to Iraq etal---obviously because the employees are making so much money and the CEO and the company are just in the poor house--wow--what a commitment--try pathetic. I wrote a letter to local paper telling readers that if they come into the store I work in and purchase a pound and offer it to me to send to troops, I would add my free coffee, pound for pound and get it sent. For this I was criticized because I did not get Starbucks approval, as if it is any of their business what I do or what I discuss in the paper that has absolutely nothing to do with the corporation in any way shape or form. When I received an email from the air force base in Iraq with pix of the airmen holding the bags of coffee, then it was OK. They may be generous with their outlook on firearms and CC (cannot figure how this liberal Seattle company ends up on this side of the gun issue), but they sure as heck are not on my list for any applause.

[NavyLCDR]

The anti's tried this boycott last year. Starbuck's business increased when they did due to the free publicity.