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packman

(16,296 posts)
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 03:05 PM Dec 2015

OH GOD, What possibly can go wrong with this

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"Gun loving groups in Austin, Texas, have hit on a fabulous idea to promote their cause (said cause being the idea that everyone should be heavily armed at all times): they’re going to stage a fake mass shooting at the University of Texas.

They’ll be using actors with cardboard weapons, because that’s the only way to simulate a mass shooting that doesn’t end up with a lot of people dead. This way, nobody dies except the bad guy, and the good guys with guns save the day! Total fantasy-land"


http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/45347_Texas_Gun_Lovers_to_Stage_Mock_Mass_Shooting_at_UT
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AuntPatsy

(9,904 posts)
6. The fantasy thing for live humans did not work out to well thanks to Orson Wells
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 03:11 PM
Dec 2015

ability to prove humans often mistake the two to our ever lasting horror and shame...

Big sigh

0rganism

(23,970 posts)
7. what happens if someone doesn't get that it's staged?
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 03:11 PM
Dec 2015

what if a "good guy with a gun" sees this uh... reenactment?... doesn't know it's fake, and decides to take action?

what could possibly go wrong here?

i'm hoping they're all such crappy actors that no one would believe it anyway.

patsimp

(915 posts)
9. can you imagine walking everywhere with increasingly heavy and powerful weaponry?
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 03:13 PM
Dec 2015

what a crazy world the Nra is hoisting on us.

spanone

(135,880 posts)
10. in a real situation these punks would be the first to shit their britches
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 03:13 PM
Dec 2015

life's pretty easy when it's a simulation

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