Facing Gun Issue, Starbucks Throws Up Its Hands
The Starbucks coffee chain announced today that it will continue letting customers openly wear unloaded handguns in its coffee shops.
Evidently in states where it is legal to openly carry a weapon, Starbucks is willing to let customers openly carry a weapon.
Last month, the Brady campaign sent a letter to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz urging him to reverse the company's policy. The campaign noted that three Starbucks employees were shot and killed at a Washington, D.C., outlet in 1997 during a robbery attempt.
I will never understand why allowing gun carrying criminals to come in and shoot innocent victims is supposed to be an argument for gun control.
There are a few things you have to know about gun control. Gun control laws ONLY take away guns from law abiding citizens. Gun control laws turn law abiding citizens into potential victims for criminals.
Criminals, by definition don't obey the law. So no matter how many laws you pass outlawing guns, or murder, or kidnapping or robbery, or ... the criminals will not obey the law. So the only effect of gun control laws, is to give the criminals a safer work environment.
Is that really the future we want for our children and grandchildren? Do we want to make them safer prey for the criminal class? Or do we want them to learn to protect themselves from criminals?
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