Due to their stance on marriage equality. ...I am not paranoid of soneone who might be carrhong a concealed firearm

in every day without knowing a thing about them. I mean, I've pretty much spent my day on the internet (DU, Netflix) using a laptop (Dell), drinking beer (Sierra Nevada), eating a burger (Sylvester's), and breathing oxygen (global atmosphere). Did I join any 'cotts with any of those? Should I have? Would I have been pleased if I'd known? It's definite spinny-head territory, when you think on it...

After all, Susan Smith, Rosemary West, Diane Down, etc were Mommys too.

Honestly, gun control is pretty low on my radar.

Im more concerned about equal rights (my top concern), privacy rights, free speech, separation of church and state, living wages, the wealth gap, the environment, ending capital punishment, protecting reproductive rights, collective bargaining, promoting equality, etc., etc., etc. than I am about guns.

If there was a starbucks somewhere near here i would go there to show my support for their stance on marriage equality in a heartbeat.

The gun violence problem in this country is horrific, don't get me wrong. But the failure of even mild gun-control legislation in Congress shows that, perhaps, relatively little can be done for the time being. Seems more productive to focus on some of the other issues you just named.

A boycott is when an oppressed population chooses to abstain from commerce rather than engage in the commerce that exploits them.

So, Indians either stopped eating salt, or made their own. African Americans stopped riding the bus. Etc. It's a divestment of the oppressed population from the economics of their oppression, and it can be insanely effective. Whereas simply showing a company or state that you're pissed off generally doesn't do anything except make the consumer feel better.

I use my own knowledge of the companies and make my own decision as to weather or not to patronize them.

Since this thread actually covers my top two priorities I use in making voting decisions on election day I will address them both.

Having said that, I am a married gay male and my husband and I like Starbucks coffee (he likes frapachino more than coffee actually). Since they support our right to be married, and they have a good product I will patronize them.

Your other point is on guns. I am a gun owner. In fact one of my handguns was used by it's then owner, my uncle, to defend his life by taking the life of an illegal immigrant in TX that was attacking him. I am a believer in the 2nd amendment, and it's purpose being to give teeth to the other amendments. I therefore support Starbucks on that point too. I may have to pick up a coffee after work today.

I started my starbucks boycott years ago when they changed their coffee. Cant stand it now tastes like bitter ass to me.


Give me Coffee bean and tea leaf any day over Starbucks.