Open carry gun advocates planning a 'mock shooting' at the University of Texas during finals week

[ashling]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/09/1458602/-Open-carry-gun-advocates-planning-a-mock-shooting-at-the-University-of-Texas-during-finals-week?detail=facebook




The Open Carry Walk and Crisis Performance Event will involve actors “shot” by perpetrators armed with cardboard weapons, said Matthew Short, a spokesman for the gun rights groups Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.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.

[Turbineguy]

1. During finals week

that's brilliant. Maybe some people will flunk out. After all, one can never be too ignorant.

[Hoyt]

2. I hope some students who don't like gun yahoos invading their institution of higher learning, chase

these ignorant asses off campus kicking them in the butt down the street. Hope news media is on sight to film these ignorant yahoos.

Of course this is Texas, so it might be hard to find some students who care.

[El Supremo]

6. You just insulted a whole state.

Way to go.

[Hoyt]

8. Hey, it's the same in the red state where I live. Doesn't bother me if folks tell the truth about

where I live. While there might be some exceptions, the majority -- like 60% or more -- are yahoos. I feel confident it is the same or worse in the state that seems to want to secede. In any event, we'll see if any counter-protesters appear.

[TexasTowelie]

10. The students won't be chasing them down the street or kicking their asses.

It's not because the students don't care, but because they recognize the right to free speech even if it is unpopular.

[Hoyt]

11. Guns are not speech, anymore than bombs are.

I suppose if there are no real guns, you have a point. But, most of those yahoos are too scared/irrational to go anywhere with a gun tucked somewhere.

[Politicalboi]

3. Our Terrorist don't look much different

Than their terrorist. Kooks.

[randys1]

5. But we have way more than ISIS ever thought of having.

[ashling]

15. Saw a post on FB (?) putting down ISIS for trying to terrorize us with a mass shooting

Hey, that's our national pastime

[El Supremo]

4. FUCK THIS!

The home of the Charles Whitman massacre?

[FuzzyRabbit]

7. Who is Charles Whitman?

the Open Carry proponents ask. "Why is everyone so upset with us? They seem to think we are pouring salt in an open wound of some sort."

[TexasTowelie]

12. See post #9.

I know you're interested as an alum.

[SusanCalvin]

14. That was my first thought.

What a bunch of jerks.

[ashling]

16. I brought up Whitman on FB as campus carry goes into effect on the anniversary

I was immediately informed that it was people with guns
that stopped him.

[TexasTowelie]

9. An update to the story:

UT: Mock mass shooting would be considered trespassing
http://www.democraticunderground.com/107830081

[El Supremo]

13. I am so pissed that they have distorted the meaning of this...

The Gonzales cannon during the Texas Revolution


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