Apparently, if you ask people nicely, crazed killers won’t kill people- or, that’s at least what the Brady Campaign is implying. (Somewhat) fresh off the heels of the Maurice Clemmons shooting of four police officers inside of a Washington coffee shop, the Brady Campaign, a campaign against gun violence, has begin specifically lobbying Starbucks to explicitly prohibit guns in their stores. Part of this spawns from Starbucks’ apathetic approach to the entire issue of open carry, as they are somewhat infamous for simply not giving a whit about the entire issue whatsoever because they just want to sell coffee.
The Brady Campaign, on their website, claims that “packing heat” in Starbucks is “intimidating and could be potentially dangerous to our families and communities”. The implication is, of course, that someone could get shot in a Starbucks, much like the whole Maurice Clemmons thing. But let’s be real here: if you’re really going to bust into a public location and shoot up four armed police officers, do you really think that you’ll give a care that a skinny, liberal arts major barista behind the counter is asking you to please leave the store? To me, it just sounds like the Brady Campaign is trying to guilt Starbucks into becoming a poster boy for their political opinions.
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