Well,,,
For Years folks have carried guns, met with friends and bought coffee, just like other customers at Starbucks!
This appriciation day was, it seems a grass roots plan to get Ocers all over the country to visit Starbucks stores
all over the country, just like all the other people all over the country that want to buy coffee and hang out.
Petes coffee in California served the same purpose for a long time, untill a mistake was made.
Someone decided that a critical mass showing would be a good idea,,, well it wasnt a good idea,,, it backfired,,, big time!
On a certain day, at a certain time, at a certain Petes coffee,,,,
Every 2nd amendment advocate, whether OC, CC or noC desended on that one place,,, it became a circus!
The store was filled to overflow, the sidewalk in front was overflowed, regulars couldnt get coffee, they were sad,
folks outside could not get to the other end of the street,,,, and then,, some of the more vocal of the 2A guys,
started stopping and preaching the gosple of their 2A rights and/or responsabilities,,, this pissed off a lot of folks!
Soooo that is the reason behind the change of Petes coffee gun carry policy...
Now in the present situation,, Their was no place, Their was no time,,,, It was just everybody,, go out and be a customer!
And it would have been a great time for all, for us to meet, enjoy, caffinate And for Starbucks to deposit wads of two dollar bills!!!
Sooo what went wrong?
Exposure,,, Somehow the word went out,,, how???
I dont think it is OCDO,, I do think it was through the article by Dave Workman in the Examiner,,, not blaming, just thinking.
Sooo who do I think read about this plan to buy lots of coffee from Starbucks?
The same thing happened recently when a coffee day was planned by one of our own here on OCDO in Seattle!
Dave workman picked up that plan and wrote a story about it in the Examiner.
Soon who else but the "Moms Demanding Action" are calling for all their supporters to go and make a big fuss!!!
That just the way the appritiation day plan went into the crapper...
And guess what is different between us and the moms when we go to starbucks?
We are customers!!! They are just a bunch of angry, spiteful, disruptive, hate filled, mobsters, holding signs, but not buying coffee...
A thing that bothers me, is that we can continue to be good responsible customers, and things will be just fine, But
the Demanding Moms can show up at any time to make a fuss and push Starbucks to change policy.
We are only on the, neutral or losing end of the struggle.
The Moms Can Not Lose!!! But they can end up neutral... It really is the only thing that we can hope to achieve.
The only way that the out come could be any better for 2nd amendment supporters,
would be for Starbucks to somehow deny the Demanding Moms the 1st amendment right
to assemble and/or protest out side their stores....
I would NOT ask for or support any such action,,, EVER!!!
I will support all of your rights,,, Please support all of my rights.