Mock mass shooting in Texas met by counter demonstrators waving sex toys

[GMDino]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-mock-mass-shooting-texas-20151212-story.html

Quote:Guns on one side of the street, counter-protesters making bathroom noises on the other.

About a dozen gun rights activists staged an open carry march and mock mass shooting Saturday near the University of Texas, only to be outnumbered by counter-demonstrators who waved sex toys and tried to drown them out with chants.

The groups Come and Take It Texas and Don'tcomply.com initially wanted to hold their event on campus, but were told by school officials they would be charged with criminal trespassing. The group instead held their march, with several members openly carrying real assault-style rifles, in an area of shops and restaurants next to campus known as "The Drag."

The groups then slipped away from most media and onlookers and regrouped across the street from a campus chapel to "shoot" six people with cardboard guns. Victims were outlined with chalk to show where they fell.

After publicizing their event for nearly a week, organizers said they purposely avoided the crowds and media gathered to cover the event to prove that a shooter can strike anywhere and anytime.

Mock mass shooting
Counter protesters stand on a chalk outline drawing of a body at the University of Texas where a gun rights activist group staged a mock mass shooting, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015, in Austin, Texas. (Eric Gay / AP)
"This is what happens. In real (shooting) events like this, you don't know when they're going to happen, you don't know where they're going to happen ... we purposely did it that way," said Jason Orsek, vice president of both gun groups.

The march and mock shooting event were met with mocking from Texas students and staff.

"Mock shootings mock victims," one group chanted while others waived sex toys and sounded off with the noise makers.

The Austin campus is home to one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history: sniper Charles Whitman killed 16 people in 1966, shooting dozens of victims from a perch atop the central clock tower. The event Saturday also occurred two days before the three-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Connecticut that killed 26 people, many of whom were children.

"It's tasteless," said Robert Oxford, a Texas graduate student, instructor and member of the group Gun-Free UT said of the mock event.

The Texas legislature this year voted to allow concealed handguns on college campuses although public universities can carve out gun-free zones. Plans under consideration for the Austin campus would prohibit firearms in dorms but allow them in classrooms.

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(12-14-2015, 12:53 AM)GMDino Wrote: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-mock-mass-shooting-texas-20151212-story.html

I expected to see dildos, dammit !

:angry:

[StLucieBengal]

How vulgar . Why wave sex toys.

[GMDino]

Because when the ammoporn crowds show up people offset that with sex stuff.

You'd think grown people could accept both in public.

[StLucieBengal]

(12-14-2015, 08:10 AM)GMDino Wrote: Because when the ammoporn crowds show up people offset that with sex stuff.  

You'd think grown people could accept both in public.  

You mean for a scheduled event to raise awareness?

The Sex toy group should schedule their own event and explain how waiving them in public helps anyone.

[GMDino]

(12-14-2015, 12:17 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: You mean for a scheduled event to raise awareness?  

The Sex toy group should schedule their own event and explain how waiving them in public helps anyone.

It helps raise awareness about sex toys.

Sex toys probably kill less people than guns do.  

Edit: I'm always amused at the prudes who think such thinks are "vulgar" and "shocking" in this day and age. I was raised strict Catholic, attended religious schools from 1st grade through college and even abstained from sex until I was married and *I* don't get all upset about someone waving a dildo at a guy proudly displaying his 2nd amendment right.

America is so backward.

I thought we would have out grown that by now.