Dear Starbucks,
I support the Valentine’s Day launch of a boycott against Starbucks. I will not visit Starbucks stores or buy any Starbucks products wherever they are sold until your company joins other national chains — including Disney, IKEA, California Pizza Kitchen and others — in banning handguns and assault rifles from your stores. Thousands of people have petitioned, asked at your shareholder meeting, and appealed directly to your Board to ban guns in your stores. Your refusal is a vote for the NRA and their lethal pro-gun agenda!
I am disappointed to learn that Starbucks is not the socially conscious company that you promote. To live up to your claims as a socially conscious corporation, I call on Starbucks to actively work for sane gun laws, in cooperation with the National Gun Victims Action Council and allied groups who speak for the 14 million gun victims, survivors, and their families in the U.S. 14 million people is an army of coffee drinkers ready to support a corporation that champions public health and safety.
Your policy of welcoming guns like the automatic weapon used by the Tucson shooter into your stores, either openly carried or concealed, is not acceptable. It is shocking. Starbucks has the legal right to ban guns. Please assert this right, reject the NRA’s Pro-Gun Agenda and become a corporate advocate in the struggle for sane gun laws in the United States. Until Starbucks does this, I will continue my boycott.