Starbucks to Customers: Please Leave Your Guns at Home

[Warren Stupidity]

Source: Business Week

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek that firearms and cappuccino don’t mix. Beginning today, the ubiquitous caffeine bars “respectfully request” that gun owners leave their weapons in their cars or at home, Schultz said by telephone. “We’re not pro-gun or anti-gun,” he explained. The chain simply wants no part of the escalating debate over the Second Amendment and the place of firearms in American society.

Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-18/starbucks-to-customers-please-leave-your-guns-at-home

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I'll drink a quad venti soy latte to that.

[BlueJazz]

1. Great...Just Great. So what am I suppose to do if the worker puts too much nutmeg in my coffee?

What?..Be a wimp and not protect myself. ??.....I think not.

[KansDem]

6. Well, you know what they say about stopping a bad cup with too much nutmeg?

[thesquanderer]

22. I guess you're not allowed to stand your grounds. (n/t)

[riqster]

23. Only a drip would say such a thing.

[jberryhill]

26. Is there a way to filter these sorts of comments?

[riqster]

27. Sorry, wasn't trying to brew up anything nasty.

Guess I'm just not feeling perky today. Please don't roast me, it's bean a tough week.

[jberryhill]

28. Keep mugging around like that, and you might get creamed

[riqster]

30. If so, I'd have urned it.

[jberryhill]

31. Not just you, this place is chock full o' nuts

[Warren Stupidity]

33. you espresso yourself very well.

[riqster]

34. An adherent of latte-Faire economics.

[BlueJazz]

35. LOL!

[telclaven]

2. How about I just skip Starbucks?

Over priced, over hyped bad coffee.

[ZRT2209]

7. please do skip it. i don't want to see you there. thanks!

[telclaven]

12. Eh? What's that all about?

I just don't care for Starbucks either way.

Enjoy your latte

[BlueJazz]

36. He was Kidding.

[leftyohiolib]

16. there's only one?

[we can do it]

17. Go ahead I'll be happy the line's a bit shorter.

To each his own, but their coffee really isn't anymore expensive than most places other than gas stations whose burnt coffee on a burner for 4 hours obviously does appeal to some people.

[telclaven]

19. Well, I do like gas station coffee

I laughed when I read that. I have a 2 1/2 hour one-way commute. I stop in at the same gas station to tank up on caffine morning and night, they have the best coffee around. Plus, since it's my favorite time of the year, now they rolled out the pumpkin flavored coffee and creamers.

[tblue]

3. If you need your gun to get a cup of coffee

please go where I'm not. This is great news! Makes my day. Next time I go to Starbucks, I'll tell them they done good.

[ZRT2209]

8. Starbucks also announced they will not cut employee hours to avoid Obamacare

[Delphinus]

29. Now *that*

is an extremely important bit of news!

[tblue]

38. I've always considered SB a good corporate citizen.

Glad they're showing their integrity!

[BainsBane]

4. I asked a barista about their gun day

At the Starbucks closest to me that is frequented mainly by Somali men. This was the day after the Starbucks bring your gun to have coffee day. I asked her if she had seen a lot of people with guns. She said: "Why would anyone need a gun to have coffee?" I said good question, but told her about the pro-gun Starbucks appreciation day. She was puzzled, didn't understand it at all. This was a sweet, very young woman. She said something about how she thought gun control was necessary because too many people were dying, but you could tell she wasn't particularly political.

[NBachers]

5. Guns? Amped up on caffeine? What could possibly go wrong?

[AtheistCrusader]

20. Nothing so far, this has been going on for years.

BUT, Starbucks is well within their rights to ask not to be a political football over this issue.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Johnny Cash said it all--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=raXKeQ5qFwo#t=2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-Vm6DzCadTs

[nevergiveup]

10. and so it begins...

good

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Hello? Anyone here? Where'd everybody go?

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[davidpdx]

13. I thought the statement was lackluster and weak

Simply asking will not get them anywhere. They state just as much that if someone comes in with a firearm they will still serve them. The serious gun humpers like the idiot who went into Wal-Mart with his assault rifle and the three women who entered a restaurant inside a Wal-Mart with handguns holstered on their sides will continue to pull the stunts they have been pulling for years.

Here's just a few more cases of people doing the same thing:

#t=69 (this is the one with the women in Wal-Mart at the restaurant)

They are getting desperate and trying to intentionally cause a disruption with either store employees and/or police.

[niyad]

14. venti pumpkin spice latte here.

[niyad]

15. there is a small shop in my neighborhood that I have been going to for years, which recently posted

a sign saying concealed carry and open weapons permitted. will miss that store, as they carry some truly wicked hot sauces.

[we can do it]

18. The only people with guns I've ever seen at Starbucks in my area are cops.

[Aristus]

21. I hope this leads to an outbreak of digruntled gun-humpers scraping those cockamamie

"God, Guns & Coffee" stickers off the backs of their Ford F-150's.

I fucking hate those things...

[Grins]

24. “respectfully requests”? Oooooh. That'll work.

Starbuck's “respectfully requests”? No. Starbuck's should forbid, and with a big "No guns allowed" sign in front.

I'm hoping this is a marketing/sales reaction, but - 'Yer too late Schultz! You should have stood up and screamed "No way in hell!", when the gun nuts held "Gun Appreciation Day" - in the NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT Starbucks!

That did it for me and Starbucks.

[loli phabay]

25. as if they will even know im carrying on the rare occasions i go there

Its not really going to start a groundswell.

[Warren Stupidity]

32. The issue was assholes organizing OPEN CARRY events at starbucks.

Apparently to terrorize the normal customers.

[blkmusclmachine]

37. Glad I've never bought anything from Star Bucks

[Warren Stupidity]

39. Sanka you all very much for your comments.