Blink and you might have missed mock shooting protest near UT
3:15 p.m. update: The controversial mock mass shooting staged by gun rights supporters happened as planned near the University of Texas campus, but most of the public’s attention at the scene had already turned toward the counter-protest featuring sex toys and flatulent noise makers.
No more than about 15 gun rights advocates had participated in an hourlong march called the “Life and Liberty Walk to End Gun-Free Zones” around noon along The Drag on Guadalupe Street before announcing they would take a lunch break before staging the mock shooting at 2:30 p.m.
But at 2:30, all that remained as evidence of the protest were crude chalk outlines on the sidewalks along Guadalupe, meant to represent dead bodies after a mass shooting. The group said it intended to stage the mock mass shooting during the announced break, while most bystanders were checking out the counter protests nearby, to show the unpredictability of a mass shooting.
Shortly after signs of the mock victims were discovered, several people began mopping the concrete and erasing the chalk from the sidewalks.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local-education/gun-rights-marchers-protest-near-ut-mock-shooting-/nphwD/
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