Gun Rights Groups to Hold Fake Mass Shooting at UT This Weekend

[majormadmax]

WTF? I hope this is bullshit, but I wouldn't be surprised if Grisham and OCT would pull a stupid stunt like this...

Gun Rights Groups to Hold Fake Mass Shooting at UT This Weekend

Multiple gun rights groups will be joining together this weekend for a mock mass shooting on the University of Texas campus, an event complete with cardboard guns, crisis actors, and fake blood. Now, what could this possibly accomplish?, a reasonable person might be wondering. But as one of the protestors told Statesman.com: “We love freedom, and we’re trying to make more freedom.”

The “crisis performance event” itself will involve actors being “shot” with mock guns, just over a week after the San Bernardino mass shooting took 14 individual lives. From Statesman.com:

“It’s a fake mass shooting, and we’ll use fake blood,” he said. He said gun noises will be blared from bullhorns. Other people will then play the role of rescuers, also armed with cardboard weapons.

... Asked if he was worried the demonstration, which will be preceded by a walk through Austin with loaded weapons might appear in bad taste following the mass shootings in San Bernardino and Paris, Short said: “Not at all. People were able to be murdered people because no one was armed.”

Fortunately, weapons are currently banned from UT’s campus, or else someone probably would get shot this weekend. That might not be the case for long, however. On August 1, Texas’ new “campus carry” law goes into effect, which will allow concealed handguns in classrooms, dorms, and “other buildings” at both public and private colleges.

This law still allows for universities to draft up their own rules for specified gun-free zones, which is what Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com are hoping to change this weekend, by trying to terrify everyone around them into packing heat of their own.

The much more likely outcome? A bunch of assholes run around UT making light of tragedy and reminding everyone why we need gun-free zones in the first place: to protect us from all those “good guys with guns.”

EDIT: Looks like it's other idiots, "Come and Take It Texas" and "DontComply.com" Fucking morons!

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/gun-rights-groups-to-stage-mock-mass-shooting-at-u/npf38/

 

[Charlie]

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[zincwarrior]

Thread already on topic, but we are in agreement. This is stupid.

 

[Vaquero]

That's asinine.

 

[Charlie]

........we are in agreement. ..........

Who'd a thunk it!

 

[zincwarrior]

its scary isn't it.

Why don't they act calmly and bring signs and literature describing the low crime rates of CHLers and big signs with CHL requirements, with other signs refusing counterarguments one by one? Others could have signs with events where CHlers saved themselves or others from crime. DOn't get drawn into the mass shooting nonsense, and instead talk about fragile coeds walking in the dark to their cars or between buildings. That will get positive attention and notice.

Crime is rising at UT. CHLs are an antidote. publicize it.

 

[RCK1999]

At least there are no dildos being used in this fiasco. The other side has already cornered the dildo market!

 

[TheDan]

At least there are no dildos being used in this fiasco. The other side has already cornered the dildo market!

The dildos are the ones putting this on.

I do look forward to the video

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

Ruhtards

 

[Mreed911]

People walking in halfway through won't understand what's happening... they'll just see people running around campus with cardboard guns.

 

[Big Dipper]

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

 

[majormadmax]

Thread already on topic, but we are in agreement. This is stupid.

What thread? Didn't see anything in the Austin forum...

 

[Major Kong]

What thread? Didn't see anything in the Austin forum...

It was it the News Articles I believe.

Sent from a B-52 flying over Russia.

 

[Chirpy]

Maybe they should put someone on the observation deck of the tower with a cardboard deer rifle!

 

[ATX117]

Who'd a thunk it!

Is that banana Justin Timberlake?

 

[majormadmax]

It was it the News Articles I believe.

Sent from a B-52 flying over Russia.

Actually, it was in the Gun Legislation section. Who ever looks there?

 

[Major Kong]

Actually, it was in the Gun Legislation section. Who ever looks there?

Once in a Blue Moon. Or if it pops up on my Tapatalk feed.

Sent from a B-52 flying over Russia.

 

[Mreed911]

That's why the Unread Posts or Today's Posts deeds are good.

 

[Ranger60]

Stupid is as Stupid does! We need someone like TSRA to publicly disown these clowns!

 

[zincwarrior]

Evidently they've announced they are moving after then university told them to F' off.