Hmac wrote:It's worth noting that Starbuck's doesn't allow their employees to carry or have access to weapons of any kind on company premises.
From their employee manual:Partners may not have or possess any weapon while in a Starbucks store, plant or on other Starbucks property. Starbucks takes its rules regarding workplace health, safety and security very seriously. It is essential that you understand and follow them, together with any more detailed guidance provided to you.
I think it's reasonable to admire Starbucks as a company that hasn't (yet) caved to policital special interest pressure to ban guns, but I think it might be an error to read into that that they are gun rights supporters. They are simply refusing to jump into any kind of gun rights debate, defaulting to "local laws" as their governing policy. As a corporation, they don't support gun rights, neither do they oppose them (other than the fact that they don't allow their employees the same rights that they allow their customers).
I believe you'll be hard pressed to find a large corporation that will "allow" employees to carry on the job. Oddly enough, outside of security personnel, none of the major firearm or ammunition manufacturers will. There's a book I'm currently reading (http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Workplace-Pr ... 464&sr=8-1) about changing Corporate policies, and I'm having discussions with my employer. It mainly centers around insurance liability...as its not an OSHA issue, nor a State/Federal law thing to allow permitted carry in the workplace.
Slow changes -- kinda like how the carry law wasn't passed overnight.
