Gun and outdoor magazines may have to cave to angry gun advocates but Starbucks doesn't. And it's now feeling pressure from those who seek reasonable gun control. The National Gun Victims Action Council, the Episcopal Peace Fellowship and the Fellowship of Reconciliation launched a boycott against Starbucks last year and it worked.
It is time for Americans fed up with blood in the streets, courtesy of the gun lobby, to stop saying "please" to politicians who haven't passed one meaningful federal gun regulation in 19 years. From Mahatma Gandhi's salt march in the 1930s to the Montgomery bus boycott in the 1960s, successful social movements need an economic vehicle to convey the will of the majority when lawmakers aren't listening.
This is why the action council and supporting groups urge the 14 million Americans affected by gun violence to use their buying power to influence gun-friendly corporations, services, lawmakers and even states with our "Tell and Compel" pledge. Starbucks' disavowal of guns is just the first example of our collective power.
Elliot Fineman is the CEO of NGVAC
Are you DONE ASKING for sane gun laws? Force them! Join the thousands making the TELL AND COMPEL - pledge.
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