Open Carry Activists to Hold Mock ‘Mass Shooting’ Near Texas University
SputnikNews.com
10.12.2015
Gun rights activists are planning to hold a fake mass shooting on Saturday outside the University of Texas, which many believe to be in bad taste especially with recent tragedies.
The groups, Come and Take it Texas and Don’t Comply, intend to hold an open carry march through Austin with loaded weapons, until they arrive at the campus where they will use cardboard guns, “crisis actors”, gunshot sounds blasting through megaphones and fake blood to prove that students need more weapons and that there should not be gun-free zones on campus.
Students attending University of Texas are already permitted to carry in some areas on campus, such as sidewalks and parking lots, and a new law that will go into effect in August will expand places that people with concealed weapons permits may carry their handguns to include dorms, classrooms and other public university buildings. The school will reserve the right to declare some areas “gun-free” however.
The demonstration is set to take place just over a week after the deadly mass shooting in San Bernardino that claimed the lives of 14 innocent people and injured 21 more.
Originally, the event was set to take place on the grounds at the University of Texas, but the school has threatened to have them removed for criminal trespass should they refuse to leave when asked as they are not students or faculty. Now, organizers have moved the location to an adjacent lot and will use the university as a backdrop for their performance.
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