Starbucks Appreciation Day

[elmo_iscariot]

On February 14, the ladies and I will be spending a romantic evening at Sleep No More for Hecate's Valentine. Because we are weak, weak people.

We'll also be dropping by Starbucks before the show to get ourselves all high on stimulants, and to thank them for refusing to cave to anti-gun activists. The dickbags at the Brady Campaign went after

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[knirirr]

Interesting.
Is there a handy list anywhere of corporations who give in to gun-control lobbyists and those who resist?

[elmo_iscariot]

Googling "pro-gun businesses" and "anti-gun businesses" brings up endless results, and NRA maintains a list of actively anti-gun businesses and individuals, but frankly, I'm not too comfortable with lists. They have too little context for what are often nuanced individual situations. The linked one, for example, is a for-all-time list, and many or most of the poor decisions chronicled there probably date to the 80s and 90s, when being anti-gun was a standard way of paying generic lip service to the leftward end of the political spectrum.

[knirirr]

That's a fair point about the lack of specificity of these lists.

[elmo_iscariot]

By way of example, the only US anti-gun organization that still scares me is Mayors Against Illegal Guns, run by NYC mayor Bloomberg. Where the rest are now just a bunch of angry children throwing insults at gun bloggers, MAIG has a calculated strategy that realistically plays its odds and knows the shape of the current battlefield (the rest seem to think they can make it be 1994 again if they scream loudly enough).

A list of mayors who'd lent their voices to restrictions on concealed carry would probably contain every mayor who was signatory to one of MAIG's petitions for anti-carry laws. But Bloomeberg lists every member of MAIG as a signatory to MAIG's petitions. Most of those mayors signed up knowing little or nothing about Bloomberg's group, figuring it was a political gimme: a minor liberal shoutout with no serious conservative repercussions--after all, it says right in the name that they're only against illegal guns, right? Most on the hypothetical list of anti-carry mayors would be dozens or hundreds who were never

[starlernight]

Would one of those little Starbucks in a B&N count?

[elmo_iscariot]

Heck yes. :)