Dunn Brothers coffee is a regional coffee shop chain (with some franchise inroads outside Minnesota) that sells really, really good coffee. In fact, as this post appears, I’m very likely drinking a Dunn Brothers medium roast. <\/p>\n
But its corporate office had a really, really bad idea.<\/p>\n
Dunns’ corporate headquarters is reportedly hosting Mayor Bloomberg’s Now, I don’t believe in boycotts – partly because they don’t work, but also because Dunn’s is a franchise operation that includes many independent businesspeople whose politics may be very, very different from the corporate line. <\/p>\n So I sent them this letter instead:<\/p>\n ——–<\/p>\n Dunnbros,<\/p>\n I’ve been buying coffee at Dunn Brothers since you were a single store on Grand Avenue. Sometimes, when working near a Dunn’s, I’ve been known to go twice a day.<\/p>\n So I’m a little – ok, a lot – disappointed to see that Dunn Brothers corporate office is hosting Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” tour.<\/p>\n Name notwithstanding, the group has nothing to do with illegal firearms; all of the group’s policy initiatives relate to attacking the law-abiding citizens’ human right to self-defense.<\/p>\n In the last 20 years, as gun laws have grown more liberal, violent crime has dropped sharply. The main exceptions are several of the cities whose mayors are in MAIG. MAIG has not a factual leg to stand on.<\/p>\n As a rigorously law-abiding guy, from a group that is two orders of magnitude less likely to commit a violent crime than the general public, I’m disappointed with your corporate office’s support of this group.<\/p>\n I urge Dunn Brothers’ corporate HQ to reconsider hosting MAIG.<\/p>\n Mitch Berg Sent from my iPhone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dunn Brothers coffee is a regional coffee shop chain (with some franchise inroads outside Minnesota) that sells really, really good coffee. In fact, as this post appears, I’m very likely drinking a Dunn Brothers medium roast. But its corporate office had a really, really bad idea. Dunns’ corporate headquarters is reportedly hosting Mayor Bloomberg’s “Plutocrats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37417,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37387\/revisions\/37417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}“Plutocrats Interdicting Guns” (PIG)”<\/del> “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” (MAIG) when they pass through the Twin Cities on their “Stick It To The Law-Abiding Plebeians” [1] tour.<\/p>\n
\nSaint Paul<\/p>\n