Louisiana GOP Rep.: Go to ‘Gun Friendly’ Coffee Shops Instead of Starbucks
It was inevitable & highly predictable that Howard Schultz’s mild plea to not bring guns to Starbucks in the face of wingnut mass open carry demonstrations would create the irresistible need to gratuitously grandstand in some southern GOP representative. If you support sanity, I recommend a few extra stops at the Starbuck’s drive through in the coming months.
Louisiana State Rep. Jeff Thompson (R) is urging conservatives to boycott Starbucks and instead go to coffee shops that have “gun friendly” owners.
Thompson’s call, made Friday on the Defend Louisiana website, is in response to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asking customers to not “bring fire arms” into Starbucks coffee shops. Defend Louisiana is a campaign Thompson founded in opposition to new gun laws.
“The home of the most expensive cup of coffee is apparently now the home of one of the most dangerous as well,” Thompson said in the statement.
Thompson plans to host “Guns & Coffee” events in the next few weeks where he will buy supporters a cup of coffee and discuss the current debate over gun laws.
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