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...patrons of at least five Starbucks locations in California's Bay Area have faced this dilemma in recent weeks. Gun owners have walked into various Starbucks--including in liberal enclaves like San Francisco, San Jose and Cupertino (the home of Apple)--openly wearing weapons while they drink their coffee...
...California, and why Starbucks? According to OpenCarry.org co-founder John Pierce, his group didn't formally organize the Starbucks displays. Rather, he says, gun-rights advocates who use his site to plan meet-ups decided to highlight what they see as shortcomings in California's gun laws. The state does have a rather strange--and among the 50 states, unique--law: you can carry a gun openly in California, but it can't be loaded. Every other state that allows you to carry a gun openly also allows it to be a functioning weapon, one that actually has bullets...
...middle. The company issued a statement saying that "the political, policy and legal debates around these issues belong in the legislatures and courts, not in our stores." Gun opponents want Starbucks to exercise its legal authority to ban gun displays on its property, as Peet's Coffee & Tea and California Pizza Kitchen have done. "Guns are not protest signs," says Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. But because California law prohibits openly carried guns from being loaded, they do seem more like symbols than weapons. Which gun-control proponents might regard as a kind...
...Alaska, recruit allies through the force of their personal conviction and leave behind 100 million protected acres as a legacy. He did the same thing with the redwoods and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. He also forged an unlikely alliance with a Congressman who almost never went outdoors--California's Phillip Burton--that saved hundreds of other spots...
...Harvard softball team, a trip to California didn’t bring much...