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We did this to ourselves or maybe I should say the behavior of the more insensitive members of open carry were the last straw for the tolerance of the business owner. I just hope we take a lesson from this and "appreciate" businesses where we can carry politely concealed by spending money there without making a big deal out of it. For those states with open carry laws, hopefully gun owners will wake up and exercise more respect for the owners of businesses who just do not want people openly carrying guns inside or outside demonstrating before they force them to throw us all out.

If I see a valid 30.06 sign at the store, I will obey it and not enter. If a manager verbally tells me he/she does not want any guns in the store, I will leave. Otherwise, I see no problem carrying concealed. Even if Texas ever allowed open carry, I would still go concealed except when in rural areas, camping, etc. Places where most would not be alarmed.

The verbiage of the letter is an earnest plea to please stop making Starbucks any public part of the gun argument--and especially pertaining to visible guns. Some in the open carry crowd just will not stop pushing all of their fellow citizens to become completely accepting of strangers to stand next to them and their children with a visible gun. As a gun enthusiast, I totally understand how gun owners feel, but before I was who I am now, I was for many years a woman who would have thrown a fit over some guy openly carrying a gun near me or my kids. I would have had no idea why or if he was some nut that was a threat or just simply negligent. These days with mass shootings being played up endlessly by the anti's we are simply not going to win this by being insensitive to those who are truly fearful and ignorant of guns. It WILL backfire.