Busting a cap in your ass latte

Via the NYT and our intrepid Ms. Stone, the news that you can pack heat while you get your Starbucks on. Whatever the Cod's thoughts on gun control (fan of Bill of Rights, but wonders if your AK-47 is too high a price to pay for my As Nasty as They Wanna Be) this open carry movement is all kinds of retarded. As the cinetrix points out, seems like this will give all those baristas a chance to use their benefits when that shard of an Allison Kraus CD comes through the clavicle after an irate customer shoots up a store. If that's not good enough, consider the Tim Allen corollary to Ibsen's famous dictum that if you show a gun in the first act, it has to go off in the third. If you have a gadget, you want to use it. If you have a winch on your truck, you hope your neighbor will skid off the road; if you have a juicer attachment, you buy lots of oranges. If you have a gun on your hip, it's there because you hope to have a chance to use it. Guns + Starbucks seems suboptimal, as nothing in a Frappuchino seems like it would lead to good choices, rules of engagement-wise, but more generally, anywhere alcohol and/or sports are present (most public places) pistols on hips seem like bad ideas.

In this context, Starbucks' decision to permit firearms in its stores is puzzling -- they are, I suppose, reflecting the law of the places where this practice is legal, but it seems to me like they might outline a different judicial precedent, outlined by Justice Eddie Murphy in the case of Raw:

You don't need to be a legal scholar to tell that today is shaping up as just another Guiteau Monday.

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[Jess]

We did have a customer who was watching porn in the cafe a while back and, when the police arrived to ask him to leave, it was discovered he was also packing heat.

By that, I mean carrying a gun.

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Did he pay for the Starbucks T-Mobile wireless, or was he kicking it old school with actual printed pornography?

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