One final comment, just for clarification:
The Starbucks deal I refer to was not one guy carrying an AR.
It was a couple years back when Starbucks declared it would honor a particular state's open carry law.
The resulting rush of people who descended on Starbucks stores with all sorts of long & short guns openly carried, and those who took it upon themselves to make Starbucks the official commercial poster child for open carry in various social media channels, resulted in Starbucks understandably backing off their original stance & asking people to please stop carrying openly in their stores.
Photos circulated of groups (not single individuals) congregating at Starbucks stores with ARs, which was an image that Starbucks was not happy about.
They also did not appreciate the T-shirts with Starbucks logos & ARs that were selling briefly.
Nor were they happy about a decline in business in some locations from regular customers who didn't want to be surrounded by visible guns while they were just looking for a few minutes spent with their favorite cup of coffee.
This is another case where the unthinking few did screw it up for the responsible many.
Far from acclimating everyday customers to the sight of ARs, and winning them over because they were "getting used to it", it generated complaints, drove many of those customers away, and changed Starbucks' corporate attitude.
This helped us how?
And, I'm outa this one.
Those that get it, get it.
Those that refuse to get it, won't.
Denis