Quote Originally Posted by RblDiver View Post
Bailey and jhood, why are you two blaming the OCers? You seem to be implying that everything is their fault. From the letter, it seems the CEO's main beef was that Starbucks Appreciation Days implied they had Starbucks support. Meanwhile, it was the anti-OC's who were "soliciting and confronting our customers and partners." Sounds like they were the ones being the most disruptive.

Why are you assuming that someone who OCs has a small dick, is trying to be macho, etc? What is it about exercising one's Second Amendment rights that has your panties in such a wad? Quite frankly, by whining about something like this, you imply people SHOULDN'T exercise their rights. This creates a downward spiral, so when someone legally DOES carry, everyone freaks out and assumes that they're going to murder people. I'd say this is worse than "They're compensating."
I'm not blaming 'the OCers'. I'm blaming some of them. I have zero issue with open carry or people that practice it. If you're out in bear and mountain lion country making some livestock checks and you stop in for a cup of coffee after your rounds, don't leave your gun in your truck. Go right on in. Same if you regularly OC on a day to day basis. Have at it.

The people I'm blaming are those that never open carry that slap on their favorite Punisher t-shirt with their gun in a holster that seldom sees any use just to go to Starbucks to be seen. And a lot of that was going on.

We want firearms in our lives and in public to be a normality. And if open carrying is normal for you, carry on. Flooding various Starbuck's with openly displayed firearms because of some buzz on the internet is abnormal. And it draws abnormal scrutiny.

Do something abnormal and expect abnormal reactions and scrutiny.