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ST Poll: Would you patronize a Starbux [public shoppe] if other patrons wore guns?

Posted by OAE (aka KiwiPrincess) Mar 3 '10, 09:38

I think I'd save myself lots of grief and simply turn around and find another place where I could feel safer.

Starbux Gun Totin' Patrons (blog.seattlepi.com)

Responses:

100% Nope if I had my kids with me. 75% Nope if it was just me. - JaxSean Mar 3, 09:55
First tell me whether there can be a wrong answer. -- nm - mara Mar 3, 09:47 1
- Good catch! There is No Wrong/Right Answer -- nm - OAE Mar 3, 09:48
Unrelated? I was amused in Kansas by the international "no guns" symbol on the door of a credit union. - MojaveMeg Mar 3, 09:47 1
- "sh!t, we have to try a different bank. This one doesn't allow guns!" -- nm - Don Homer Mar 3, 09:47
absolutely...you never know when a Latte is going to go after some kid and need to be put down. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 3, 09:45 3
- "Oh crap, it's the Orange Mocha Frappucino Gang ... this shit just got *real*." -- nm - Beryllium Mar 3, 09:47 2
  - you never bring non-fat creamer to a coffee fight. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 3, 09:48 1
    - Rules?! -- nm - Beryllium Mar 3, 09:49
Sure. -- nm - Ender Mar 3, 09:43
I have on a military base. -- nm - loosilu Mar 3, 09:43 7
- I think I might on a military base. But in a generic random Starbucks? - musubi Mar 3, 09:47 6
  - for me it depends who's carrying. -- nm - loosilu Mar 3, 09:48 5
    - Yes. And thus at a random Starbucks where you have no idea who the person is...my answer is hell no. (nm) - musubi Mar 3, 09:57 3
      - so, for all I know, I go to Starbucks all the time where people are carrying guns. -- nm - loosilu Mar 3, 09:59 2
        
        That wasn't the question though, now was it? (nm) - musubi Mar 3, 10:01 1
        
        the question didn't specify that I had to know about it! -- nm - loosilu Mar 3, 10:02
    - that does make a big difference. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 3, 09:50
no -- nm - Andie Mar 3, 09:42
yeah, there's another group of citizens that wear guns everywhere.....the police. - CrankYanker Mar 3, 09:41 18
- Police aren't exactly citizens. They're police. 100% different. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 3, 09:43 17
  - because we know police are never involved in domestic violence or other incidents involving illegal use of their firearms. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 3, 09:44 16
    - I was in a place one time when the cops came in to do a shake down for protection money. I feel safer with "Average Joe" having the gun. -- nm - scorpion Mar 3, 09:46 8
      - Everyone should carry shotguns. That'll solve everything. (nm) - musubi Mar 3, 09:50 7
        
        Your equation of having a gun to there always being a crime going to take place is simply not true. - scorpion Mar 3, 09:53 4
        
        I never made any such statement, but feel free to make the arguement. (nm) - musubi Mar 3, 09:55
        
        which is why you so frequently hear about those workplace stabbings and club beatings when someone gets fired -- nm - 16 & pixie Mar 3, 09:54 2
        
        I'm sure in fantasy land that no guns equates to no murder - scorpion Mar 3, 10:01
        
        Oh pixie, don't be so naive. The Man just doesn't want you to know about all the workplace stabbings and beatings. (nm) - musubi Mar 3, 09:59
        
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        Exactly. When the zombie hordes arrive, if you don't have shotgun, you're f***ed. (nm) - musubi Mar 3, 09:55
    - on duty in public? -- nm - 16 & pixie Mar 3, 09:45 6
      - I thought the issue was carrying guns.....you know they carry them when off duty too, right? -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 3, 09:46 5
        
        if they do i've never seen it -- nm - 16 & pixie Mar 3, 09:47 4
        
        Years ago, our office manager's husband, a cop, was wearing his at our office Christmas party. It looked like it was going to fall out of its - jnine Mar 3, 09:57
        
        You never watch TV, do you? -- nm - oblique Mar 3, 09:51
        
        exactly. I'd rather *know* who has the gun in Starbucks, but I'm not really concerned with who has it. -- nm - CrankYanker Mar 3, 09:50
        
        I know a few officers (and former officers) and the ones I know carry off duty. - loosilu Mar 3, 09:50
Hell no, but then I don't drink coffee so the odds of me going to one are slim...now Jamba Juice would be a tough choice. -- nm - ceregon Mar 3, 09:41
Hell no. (nm) - musubi Mar 3, 09:41
i never go to starbucks anyway but just another reason not to now -- nm - 16 & pixie Mar 3, 09:40
I probably wouldn't shop at any store where that was allowed. -- nm - Don Homer Mar 3, 09:40

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