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I still carry CCW in Starbucks. I don't see them as anti gun, when people go over the top to make a point that interferes with their ability to make money. Stupid gun owners do more damage than good.
Yep, I support open carry, but to do it just to draw attention in a way that causes people to become afraid and then make them anti gun does nothing for our cause. As I said before, just WTF did Ted Nugent blowing off a 50 cal Browning saying Janet Renio you can Ride this you witch do for our cause but make people who are uneducated about guns or gun owners recoil in horror and feel they now understand why we need to ban guns? Not one darn thing.
Although I have no Starbucks near me I have been ordering my coffee from them, spending at least thirty dollars per month. They've seen my last dollar.
There can be no compromise with antigunners; we can't forgive and forget. I'll go back to the place that has Mocha coffee from Yemen, a country Starbucks has boycotted for several years. I'll go back to drinking the best. Let's cost them some money.
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People who have seen my posts know I am extremely pro gun. But everything this guy said makes rational common sense. I don't condone every single thing gun owners do as I believe it just sometimes fuels the controversies.
But the same common sense needs to be applied by people who are anti gun too. If this all happened I think we'd all preserve our gun rights and the antis would be more understanding.
People who have seen my posts know I am extremely pro gun. But everything this guy said makes rational common sense. I don't condone every single thing gun owners do as I believe it just sometimes fuels the controversies.
But the same common sense needs to be applied by people who are anti gun too. If this all happened I think we'd all preserve our gun rights and the antis would be more understanding.
As the guy in your video states, these pro-gun people who expect Starbucks to bow down the them and let them walk in with a boatload of rifles are idiots. No common sense. These folks are creating their own enemies. No one wants to be friends with an idiot.
I'm all for carrying guns. But don't be stupid about it.
Starbucks was somewhat gun tolerant until people got stupid and started the " in your face " tactics . Then the T-shirts and signs with the modified Starbucks logo appeared . As long as they were off of the radar screen everything was ok , but they reacted like a lot of businesses would when things got out of hand . I'm pretty sure they would have rather stay out of the controversy and just sell coffee .
People who have seen my posts know I am extremely pro gun. But everything this guy said makes rational common sense. I don't condone every single thing gun owners do as I believe it just sometimes fuels the controversies.
But the same common sense needs to be applied by people who are anti gun too. If this all happened I think we'd all preserve our gun rights and the antis would be more understanding.
I hate to drop this on you but Anti's will never be "understanding"..... Thats why they're anti's. Nothing but a bunch of radical zealots in that crowd that are incapable of reason and logic, which becomes clearly evident after examining the type of legislation they propose and the uselesness it brings with it. They have one goal, and that is to irradicate the world of what ever it is they are "anti" about, whether it be guns, smoking, or a whole host of other things. They will do this by whatever means necessary. They will lie and decieve, they will use trickey, they'll employ scare tactics..... whatever they have to. They do this, because many or even most, genuienly believe they are soldiers for the greater good of humanity, and in the end, their actions will be justified. Take all these stories we've been hearing lately about kids being suspended from school for forming poptarts in to the shape of a gun, wearing NRA t-shirts, pointing their finger like a gun, etc. We just dismiss it as a lapse in judgement on the school officials part. No common sense, or some other excuse. Thats NOT what it is. It's quite deliberate I assure you, and is all part of a calculated effort not only to irradicate irresponsible gun ownership/use/handling., but even the healthy gun culture that runs deep in America now and all through our past. It's indoctrination is what it is. Indoctrination of our children. It's intent in part is to make even the mere sight of a gun unpalatable, and to paint the picture of responsible gun ownership as a radical endeaver. I personaly don't have much use for The Bible, maybe you do, and thats ok. There is much to gain within it's pages when not taken too entirely literaly. One verse comes to mind, paraphrasing of course " don''t throw your pearls to swine" The anti's are swine, so don't waste your time on them.
It's the moderates we need to concentrate our efforts on, the fence sitters. There minds are not yet closed, and are still open to argument. When some fool walks through downtown seattle with an AR on his back just to "make a point" it's no surprise which side of the fence a lot of these moderates will fall on.
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