All across the country, if local laws permit you to carry a weapon in public, Starbucks will welcome you and your gun into their coffee shops. Their corporate position is that they neither support nor oppose open carry laws and will abide by the local laws in the areas where their stores are located. Their well thought out statement on the issue can be read here: http://news.starbucks.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=332
The N.R.A. decided to show their appreciation of Starbucks' attitude toward gun carrying customers by holding a Starbucks Appreciation Day. Instead of choosing a shop in Texas or Wyoming where open carry laws are popular, they made the tasteless and unbelievably callous choice to hold their "celebration" at the Starbucks in Newtown, Connecticut where just eight short months ago 26 children and teachers were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School by a gun carrying madman.
There are no words to describe my outrage.
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