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sjfcontrol wrote:

“Starbucks bans smoking within 25 feet of its stores in areas where smoking would otherwise be legal. The company also bans firearms from its corporate headquarters and prohibits all employees from carrying guns – even in states where laws would allow them to do so. Like any private business, Starbucks has the legal right to prohibit firearms in its stores in the interest of its customers.”

And, they also have the right not to.

Someone ought to ask that fool if they think Starbucks should prohibit free speech in their stores.

Not to change the subject, but there's a link on that page to an interesting story about people who have more faith than I do that they can make a difference: http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconno ... ound-game/.

I nave a neighborhood barrista shop that I try to support. He's a fellow small businessman. He's also a Christian and has made his coffee shop into a place where people meet regularly for Bible study, accountability meetings, and other such pursuits as well as the normal social gatherings of people to drink coffee, read the paper, etc.

Even so, I still frequent Starbucks, and largely for the reasons outlined in the OP article. I know that a lot of the people who work there may not mirror my own political viewpoints. That's OK, they have a right to believe whatever they want to. I know that that Starbucks corporation involves itself in some activist causes....mostly having to do with social justice issues.....but, the one thing they do right it is to not discriminate against people who hold political views different from their own. That is as American as apply pie. Of course, liberals don't understand "as American as apple pie" unless the pie is government made and free. I don't really know how many gun owners are coffee drinkers, but if nearly a third of the population owns more guns than we have people, that is a vast market of potential Starbucks customers that they don't want to unnecessarily irritate. It makes very good business-sense to not involve themselves in squabbles over constitutional issues.......and even the anti-gunners admit that it's root, the RKBA is very much about the individual or collectivist view of a Constitutional right. Gun rights is not something that has any bearing whatsoever on Starbucks' business, so they wisely choose to focus on their business, and stay out of the fight.

It would be nice (from our point of view) to actually hear a major corporation positively affirm that right, but properly, they have no business affirming or denying a Constitutional right. It's not a business matter, and it's not smart business. So I'll take their stance and be grateful for it.