Warning: No idea if the memo is true or a fake, but argument’s sake let’s say is the real thing:

Lets go by parts, shall we?

Clear? You can still Open Carry (and for that matter Conceal Carry) and you will be served. Just don’t act like a jackass because you will be asked to leave as it is their right to do so.

Don’t let yourself be baited by a Mom Demanding Lemonade. Behave, be polite and ask the manager to remove the taunting/offensive idiot. Let the other jackass make the scene and get the bad reputation.

Subtext is important here. Being a firm from Hippie Town U.S.A. Starbucks is probably not very Pro-Gun. At the same time and during tough economic times, it would be idiotic to shoo away people with extra cash when you have investors that will expect a return. Since the first “buycott” Starbucks shares have risen almost double and they’d be fools to garner the ill will of Gun Owners since they are the majority. At the same time, no company wants bad publicity and the Antis do know how to be squeaky wheels. Also I think that the legal team examined the issue of enforcing a ban on all guns and found it somewhat complicated. You have states that have very few restrictions to carry a gun (concealed only) like Florida where you pretty much can ignore any No Guns Allowed sign since they carry no legal weight. Then you have states that allow business to ban guns but with specific signage and this is pretty much different from state to state. So it is a mess to have a corporate policy on gun banning that may not come back to bite them in the corporate ass or the local franchisee.

My very humble and non-legal opinion? This is a cover-yer-butt document that will be issued to the Media who will go and chant that the Gun Control Activist won a round against the NRA and everybody is happy: We still get to carry and the Anti Gun Squeaky Wheels get a dose of Slipstream Weapons Lubricant.

We still win. Go get your double shot espresso.

UPDATE: An open letter from Howard Schultz CEO of Starbucks.

I still stand on my analysis. They just don’t want the undue attention. And this next bit kinda reinforces what I said about the legal crap:
“authorized law enforcement personnel.” Law Enforcement cannot authorize the carrying of a weapon, only the enforcement of the laws as written by the legislature and signed by the Governor. They either consulted the junior partner of the legal firm or this was driven by the PR people (most likely.)

So, don’t act like jackasses, let the other side be the jackasses. Leave the Mosin Nagant at home.

PS: Sorry Joe, I could not help myself. 🙂 Slipstream is a great lubricant!

From the Facebook page of “Proudly & Loudly Supporting Barack Hussein Obama”

And it came with an accompanying text:

The fail in this is so miserable that is almost impossible to describe…..then you read the comments from his loyal followers and realize that there is even more mental misery. Do notice that this was posted 7 hours ago around 9:30 am so we will leave out the fact that it was a shotgun and not an AR 15 because probably Mr. Butthurt may have not heard the updated info.

Gun Control groups are grasping at whatever faux straw is out there. Unfortunately the Navy Yard Shooting turned out to be a nightmare scenario for them. Let’s forget the fact that they jumped in the politicking bandwagon when they should have just express sorrow (or fake it which is more likely) and then wait at least till today to commence the Bravo Sierra.

But they could not help themselves and there they went. And if that was not enough, they went into intellectual copulation with what was being regurgitated by the Media while raising the volume to about 11.5. The inevitable results were not unexpected.

First came the suspect: Aaron Alexis, a young black male. Gun Control minions were already on the full narrative about NRA= Rednecks = Insurrectionist with small genitalia and then that narrative has to be stopped full, pretty much shredded. The minions went on idle because they could not say ANYTHING bad about a minority as they fear being branded racist. In a way is kind of tragicomic that they had to apply the race card to themselves. Evil and Madness do not care for race, gender, sex or anything: They just attack. But this cannot be accepted by the Opposition trapped in an ultra liberal Narrative.

While they bemoaned and did the crocodile tears thing asking how this horrible thing happened, it was pointed out to them the obvious: If you force unnatural Gun Free Zones on people, they become targets of vicious predators. It was also pointed out that the Navy yard was under Double Gun Free Zone status, one for federal location and the other for being in Washington DC. This went unheard as they furiously latched to the erroneous story that the weapon that Aaron Alexis used was an eeeevil AR15.

Evil AR-15! Why do we need such a weapon of war in our streets? This questions were being asked while replaying the videos of Military and Police carrying precisely that arsenal gong after the shooter. But irony is one thing they appear to be genetically immunized to so it flew over their heads like a Reaper drone. Senator Dianne Feinstein came out of her cryogenic capsule and once more demanded that Congress banned once and for all these awful “assault weapons.”

And then….. disaster. Rumors and innuendos that the shooter never had an AR-15 but a plain old Vice-Pres Biden shotgun. Eventually the FBI confirmed that a shotgun was the weapon that was carried into the Navy Yard by Alexis and he procured two sidearms from officers he shot with it. After that, it all went to the privy and the mocking began.

Let’s review the Gun Control Formula, shall we?

Unarmed Civilians + Gun Free Zones + Police & Military with weapons = World Peace!

The Navy Yard Killings was that equation. It failed bloody and miserably. It is not news to us as we have seen variations of the above over and over, proving its innate fallacy. You’d think that a normal and rational human being would go “You know Felicia? Maybe we are wrong. Maybe we should re-examine our stance. You don’t hear much if any mass shootings at gun stores or gun ranges so these Gun Nuts may be right, at least in part.” Oh No! Death before admitting error! So what do they do? Take a look:

Apparently they are either blaming themselves but not blaming themselves for the failure of the equation or their supply of bath salts go contaminated ear wax from a yak. But you have to excuse them folks, when the facts keep spanking somebody and call him a liar all the time, a certain amount of neurosis will tend to set in.

If it was not for the 12 people who are now on mortuaries across the DC area, this would be funny. But these idiots are not funny but dangerous and we cannot give them a break until they become less than (pick your number/object/value.)

The Bucket Defense:

And the Unarmed Banzai Charge:

Hat Tip to jmama for providing these insightful Tactical PowerPoint Training examples.

President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to clear the way for the U.S. to provide military assistance to “vetted” opposition groups fighting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

Some elements of the Syrian opposition are associated with radical Islamic terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, which was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa., in 2001. Assad’s regime is backed by Iran and Hezbollah.

The president, citing his authority under the Arms Export Control Act, announced today that he would “waive the prohibitions in sections 40 and 40A of the AECA related to such a transaction.

via Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition | WashingtonExaminer.com.

Is it a requirement to work for this Administration (and others) to have the part of the brain that holds logic surgically removed? We already have Senator Feinstein calling for more gun control, but we are gonna ship a boatload of assault rifles and ammo to a bunch of bastards that wants us dead? And the worst thing is they know it?

“Our intelligence agencies, I think, have a very good handle on who to support and who not to support,” (Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.) said. “And there’s going to be mistakes. We understand some people are going to get arms that should not be getting arms. But we still should be doing everything we can to support the free Syrian opposition.”

But why should I be surprised? We are still trying to figure out how many guns were allowed to be sent to Mexican Drug Cartels so I shouldn’t let this crap affect me.

But it does.

Somehow we Gun Owners are the truly dangerous ones. Drug Sicarios and Beheading Islamists are not.

Dear God….give me strength.

From the Sheriff Jim Wilson’s Facebook page, we get this incredibly stupid stunt:

1896…Waco, Texas….Some fool decided it would be a great publicity stunt to run two trains together, head on. A crowd of some 40,000 gathered, of which 3 were killed and six other injured by the flying debris.

Read the whole story here.

The National Gun Victims Action Council – “A Force for Sane Gun Laws” had me lose it just a bit yesterday. Only after they posted a couple or three post about the Navy Yard Shooter and more like an afterthought, they finally posted (around 5pm) prayers for the victims and families of the senseless killing.
Maybe it was I was all day reading equally stupid crap from the usual suspects and even from Hollywood Used-To-Be’s, but when I saw this “Oh shit, we must look like we care and post something related and nice”, I had to let them/him have it.

I almost feel bad…… almost.