Starbucks, Guns, and Healthcare for all

Corporate Citizen Starbucks Gets Shot for Gun Policy while GOP Reveals Healthcare Plan to use Guns.  Firing Squads Recruited!

One of America’s greatest business success stories in the last 20 years, namely the internationally famous Coffee chain Starbucks, is sticking to its policy of letting customers carry guns where it’s legal and said it does not want to be put in the middle of a larger gun-control debate.  Oops!  Too late!

The statement stems from recent incidents when gun owners have walked into Starbucks and other businesses to test state laws that allow gun owners to carry weapons openly in public places. Gun control advocates have protested.

Starbucks’ backing of its policy comes ahead of a press conference on Wednesday by The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence near Seattle’s Pike Place Market, where the first Starbucks cafe opened.

The organization has circulated a petition that has more than 28,000 signatures demanding that Starbucks “offer espresso shots, not gunshots” and declare its coffeehouses “gun-free zones.”

I truly admire this idealistic effort to ban guns.  In fact, I am very sure that Starbucks leadership agrees with the banning of guns so I am sure they are saying “Geez us, leave us alone and please let us sell coffee”.

I mean Starbucks is NOT in the business of creating public policy.  So leave them alone!  Okay!

My daughter works for them as a “partner”.  I know firsthand how great a company Starbucks is.  We need to stop shooting good companies and good people.   Starbucks is a great company and provides great jobs.  And yes they also provide healthcare for their people and believe in covering everyone they can.  We need to help them win not destroy them!

Look, we all know old mid-America living in the romantic 20th century USA  love their guns.  I mean, who knows which terrorist communist soviet zionist country is going to invade the USA this week right?  We need these gun laws to make sure we can shoot and defend the homeland from the Barbarians, Iranians, Canadians, Soviets, El Salvadorans, Mexicans, Marauders, and Gauls.

Besides, I like gun laws.  I like the freedom to know that I can shoot anyone I want whenever I feel like it.  It’s so Dirty Harry or better, it’s so John Wayne.  I love those old movies.

Look, I think we’re all being duped.  This is a conspiracy!

Hey sheeple, think about it.  Carrying a loaded gun in public is a clandestine GOP strategy to make sure all Americans have healthcare.  That’s right I said healthcare!

Hey, I saw Eric Kantor the other day and he looked like he was packing. I mean this guy was shooting off his mouth from both sides.  It must be a conspiracy.

You see, I think it’s the plan the GOP never talks about and the Democrats don’t know about.

Yeah, stupid Democrats keep yelling that the GOP plan is to stall on healthcare and keep the status quo!   LOL!  They keep calling them the “PARTY OF NO”  Idiots!  Wrong!

Here’s the real secret GOP Healthcare Gun Plan! 

1. Identify everyone who does NOT have healthcare
2. Then, shoot and kill them all!
3. Boom, everyone now has healthcare…… and guns too!

It’s ingenious!   Talk about killing two birds with one stone!

Look, businesses like Starbucks can choose to ban guns from their premises. Starbucks said Tuesday that it complies with local laws in the 43 states that have open-carry weapon laws.

Not to do so, the chain said, would make the chain “require our partners to ask law-abiding customers to leave our stores, putting our partners in an unfair and potentially unsafe position.”

It said security measures are in place for any “threatening situation” that might occur in stores.

Starbucks asked both gun enthusiasts and gun-control advocates “to refrain from putting Starbucks or our partners into the middle of this divisive issue.”

I love Starbucks and think they are doing the right thing by asking NOT to be dragged into this mess.  It’s not their fault some Americans have their priorities stuck in a 20th-century cup of nasty robusta instant coffee.

Look the world keeps going while the USA lives in its past.  Can the USA really afford to keep going backward?

We need to go global and compete like Starbucks.   So ban stupid guns from public use.  No one is invading the USA and this is not the wild west, okay!  Oh, and can we get healthcare for all of us in the American tribe and not just the ones you like?   Oh, and while we’re at it, when the Census people ask what race you belong to, put down HUMAN RACE and tell them we are all Americans and don’t appreciate being divided into the black, white, Hispanic, Asian, and Arab guy!  Come on man!  This racism thing is so 20th century!

Leave Starbucks Alone, Ban Guns, and Let’s take care of our people, all of them!

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Johnny Punish

Johnny Punish founded VT in 2004.  After 20 years at the helm, he “retired” from the daily operations in late 2023 passing the ball over to the new owner of VT, Chief Justin Time.   He now writes for VT as “Writer Emeritus”.  He is also a global citizen eco-activist, visionary, musician, artist, entertainer, businessman, investor, life coach, podcast host, and syndicated columnist.  

Punish is an ethnically cleansed Palestinian-American whose maternal family was evicted from their home in Haifa, Palestine in 1948 by Irgun; a Euro-Zionist Settler Terrorist Group.  The family became part of the over 1,000,000 Palestinians who are Al-Nakba refugees (The Catastrophe).  The family fled to Beirut Lebanon for 13 years eventually emigrating to the USA in 1961 via a Brasilian passport obtained by his Palestinian Brasilian-born grandmother (In the early 1900s, the family was sent to Sao Paolo Brasil as guest workers in the mining industry.  Punish’s father is Italian-American from New York City.  Punish’s paternal great-grandparents emigrated to the USA from Naples Italy and Marineo in Sicily in the 1890s.  Punish was born in the Bronx, New York in 1963.

Punish was educated at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (1980-81) and California State University Fullerton (1981-1984) with studies in accounting and business. Before the “internets” had been invented, he owned and ran (5) national newspapers in the United States of America from 1987-1998.  From 2004 to 2023, he owned and managed VT Foreign Policy retiring at the end of 2023.

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