They're playing both sides at this point. They have to.
They ask us not to carry into their stores. They won't enforce a ban, but they still ask "Please don't carry in our establishments."
Plenty enough for me. I will respect their wishes and not carry in their establishments. Since I carry 90% of the time, it's quite likely I won't visit their establishments. At the same time, they're STILL not taking a strong stance and enforcing bans. I really gotta say, they're giving a LOT of second chances. It actually surprises me that they're not actively enforcing a no guns policy, but rather being passive about it.
I do gotta say, though, those who celebrated Starbucks as pro 2a were quite mistaken. Starbucks was neutral the entire time. They gave us gun owners/open carriers/whatever you wanna call us a chance. They simply wanted to go by whatever laws were applicable. But there were those who wanted to take that as a "victory" of Starbucks being pro gun, via proxy that local laws were in favor of open carriers. Sorry, but I think there were some that took the neutral stance and ran with it as if Starbucks WANTED us in there with guns. They didn't. They wanted voters to decide. It takes neither side. They were neutral. Think they were actually pro 2A?
NOPE.
They just wanted to serve coffee to people, make their profit and go home at the end of the day, plain and simple. Guns be damned, politics be damned.
Now that a few have screwed it up, they've gone ahead and made a statement because they were used as a political war ground when they just didn't want to be involved in any of this.
Despite the fact that it was a minority of us open carriers, us open carriers that chose to use Starbucks as a political battleground to make them seem pro 2a screwed things up royally.
We decided to have weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, etc. meetings at Starbucks. We decided to have Starbucks appreciation days, though there wasn't really anything to appreciate aside from being realistic and taking a neutral stance, as I wish more businesses would. But as we've seen, taking a neutral stance gets taken as being for one side or another.
I gotta say, they really did give more than a fair shot at remaining neutral. But a lot of people decided to try to make it into them being pro 2A.
Hate to say it, but it's a huge foot bullet.
The pro 2A crowd has literally shot themselves in the foot with this one. Feel good now?