I believe that a boycott only works if you let the company know about it:

Starbucks Corporation
Attn: CEO Howard Schultz
PO Box 3717
Seattle, WA 98124-3717

September 18, 2013

Dear Mr. Schultz:

I have enjoyed drinking Starbucks coffee for many years. Therefore, it both saddens and angers me that you have decided to thrust yourself and your company into the American debate on defensive tools (guns) in a manner that I find cowardly.

As you have indicated that you do not want guns in your stores, I will respectfully comply. Since you own the stores, it is your right to make that request. However, since your request clashes with my Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, I must also remove myself and my money from your stores.

Your request shows an astonishing ignorance of the majority of American society (it exists in that vast stretch of land between the liberal coasts). It also displays a lack of respect for a large portion of the customer base that has so willingly contributed to your wealth.

I took the step of de-registering my Starbucks card a few minutes before writing this letter. The card is enclosed with this letter. However, I was unable to completely cancel my online account. Please remove my account and all of its information from your databases. I’ll be watching to see that you do.

I sincerely hope that you change your mind before this letter reaches you.

Regretfully,

Former Customer
Enclosure: Starbucks Card

Dammit. I love me some corporate coffee, but I can't sanction this yellow-bellied attitude. I'm Galting Starbucks, too. No need to offend him with the money of a law-abiding, firearm-carrying citizen.

I had heard a while back the CEO was pretty liberal so I stopped going. I have to agree with the part about not allowing organized events at their stores. I kept thinking as I read the story that I am offended at the content of The New York Times. Will he politely ask patrons to stop reading The New York Times?

"The presence of a weapon in our stores is unsettling and upsetting for many of our customers." What about the presence of the anti-constitutional ideology of the Marxists? It is unsettling for me to be in the same locale with people whose only goal is to deny me my individual rights. Will Howard send out another letter requesting King Mikey and his anti-gun nut followers to stay away unless they check their socialist ideas at the door?

I Galted Starbucks a couple of years ago. I still love their Chai Tea, but I won't honor them with my patronage.

Glad I didn't participate in their gun appreciation day thing last month. Next...they'll be declaring their stores as gun free zones. (I love how he used the word "complicated" when explaining the gun debate. What a weasel.)

He's being nice about but he is anti-gun. I also wonder about the application and interview process for hiring his employees. Does the subject of guns come at any time?

It doesn't matter if he's liberal or conservative he's a business man. He has to put his business before his politics and if his customers are feeling uncomfortable he has to do what he can to retain them.