Boycott Starbucks?

The Fellowship of Reconciliation - cute name, that - is organizing a boycott of Starbucks on Valentine's Day, to protest their corporate policy of following state law at all their franchises - in other words, not posting "no guns here" signs. At last count, they had about 140 people nationwide signed up for their protest.


I'm going to offer my wife a trip to the Beloit store on V-day, during the "boycott". Without knowledge of this protest, I probably would never have patronized a Starbucks in my whole life.

H/t Days of our Trailers

Update: From the people who started this:


Glock 9mm Semi-Automatic Pistol, the gun used by the Tucson Murderer. It shot 31 bullets in 15 seconds, killed 6, and injured 14.

Damn. My Glock 19 has never fired a single round all by itself. I wonder how the "Tucson Murderer" trained his gun to be so self-sufficient?

Gun protestors - 8. Gunnies - thousands.

We're winning on numbers, but the reporting is always on the protesters.

At least this story seems balanced, and the protesters show up as lamebrains.

Gun control advocates protest gun show

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WICHITA, Kansas - Gun enthusiasts left the Metcalf Gun Show with their hands filled with new weapons and ammunition Saturday.

"I'm kind of a collector,” said Sterling Gorges. “It's just a good time to get out and see what's all out there."

Nearby, protestors' hands were filled with signs arguing for more gun control, using the gun show to get their message out.

"We're not trying to take anybody's guns away, but we are trying to make the community safer,” said Michael Poage, the protest organizer.

About a dozen protestors stood on the sidewalk at Douglas Street, showing their signs to drivers passing by.

“I think it makes people stop and think about how serious this whole gun law loop hole thing is and how we need stricter gun laws in Kansas and in the United States,” said Janie Cook, a protestor.

The group of protestors is standing on four arguments in the gun control debate.

Among them, repealing the concealed carry law in Kansas, and restricting the sale of extended ammunition magazines.

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Same lame arguments - repeal a law that has not increased violence, but has prevented many crimes, pass another feel good law that the bad guys will ignore. Same old same old.

Notice how eight protesters - count 'em - becomes "a dozen" in reporter-counting?

H/t Alphecca