As you know, I am a Second Amendment activist.\u00a0\u00a0 This blog has always reflected this; indeed, the first post on this blog was a gun rights article.\u00a0 It’s one of my most active topics.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So consider that when I say this:\u00a0 Starbuck’s CEO was right to ask gun owners to please not carry openly in his chain’s stores.<\/p>\n
It’s his business – and annual “Starbucks Appreciation Days” aside, the vast majority of his chain’s clientele is going to be people on the political center-to-left – people who, rightly or wrongly, find firearms disconcerting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bear in mind he’s not posting his stores to tell concealed carriers to keep their guns out; he’d just appreciate Real Americans not rattling the ninnies among the center-left masses who stop by every day for their Frangelicaccinos.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That’s it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Bill of Rights enumerates our rights to speak, publish, assemble, worship and keep and bear arms.\u00a0 That means you have the right <\/em>to give a pro-Vikings speech in front of a Packers bar, to march your Communist Re-Enactor club through a suburb full of Holodomor <\/em>survivors, hold a southern Baptist revival meeting outside a mosque, or carry your firearms into a gathering of Vegan Nuns for Cesar Chavez.\u00a0 Not only are none of them good ideas, all of them are just plain bad manners.\u00a0<\/p>\n Along those lines?\u00a0 There is no genre in libertarian alt-media than the bobbleheads who film themselves walking down the road with an AR-15 slung over their shoulders, almost literally begging for a cop to pull over and ask what he’s doing, allowing the bobblehead the opportunity to lecture the cop on what the law really says.\u00a0 The bobblehead is right – but it’s still stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As you know, I am a Second Amendment activist.\u00a0\u00a0 This blog has always reflected this; indeed, the first post on this blog was a gun rights article.\u00a0 It’s one of my most active topics.\u00a0 So consider that when I say this:\u00a0 Starbuck’s CEO was right to ask gun owners to please not carry openly in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-pc","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38479","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=38479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38488,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38479\/revisions\/38488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}