In yet another ridiculously idiotic stunt to prove that more guns on college campuses will promote safety, guns rights groups will be hosting a mock mass shooting this weekend at the University of Texas’ main campus.
According to the Austin American-Stateman, demonstrators will play out scenarios where they are shot by attackers wielding cardboard weapons. Sounds of gunshots will play via bullhorns.
Just a friendly reminder that when the Founding Fathers wrote the 2nd Amendment, the most technologically-advanced weapon was a musket – not a fully automatic rifle.
Matthew Short, a spokesman for the guns right groups Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com, stated that the event will be “a fake mass shooting and we’ll use fake blood.” The fake mass shooting is being called the “Open Carry Walk and Crisis Performance Event.”
Can we talk about how the guns rights groups won’t even mention the word “gun” in their event name? It’s rather misleading, don’t you think?
Short, in support of the event, said, “Criminals that want to do evil things and commit murder go places where people are not going to be able to stop them. When seconds count, the cops are minutes away.”
Joan Neuberger, a professor at the University of Texas, spoke out against the demonstration. She said:
“Staging a mass shooting during an anxious time for students — finals week — not only breaks rules but shows real disrespect for the feelings of students, faculty and staff who don’t want to have guns around them in the first place, but will be forced to put up with guns in public places in 2016.”
I agree wholeheartedly with Neuberger. In a time of endless papers, late-night study sessions and high-stress levels, a fake mass shooting is the last thing a college campus needs. Let me reiterate that the guns rights groups won’t even call it “a fake mass shooting,” but are rather circumventing it by calling it a “Crisis Performance Event.” If you’re not going to call it what it is, what’s the point?
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