Fake blood and bullhorns
Mother Jones reports on a brilliant plan for next weekend:
Gun rights activists in Texas are planning to stage a mock mass shooting at the University of Texas this weekend in protest of both gun-free zones and President Barack Obama’s continued calls for tougher gun control legislation.
According to the website Statesman, gun rights supporters will begin the day by marching through Austin with loaded weapons and conclude their walk with a “theatrical performance.”
A spokesman for the two participating gun rights groups, Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com, told the site the event will involve using fake blood and bullhorns to mimic gunshot noises.
By way of persuading the people of Austin and perhaps the Texas legislature that we desperately need more guns.
“In the wake of yet another gun free zone shooting, Obama is using it to aggressively push his gun confiscation agenda,” a Facebook page for the event read. “Now is the time to stand up, take a walk, speak out against the lies and put an end to the gun free killing zones.”
Because if only there were guns everywhere, there would be no more mass shootings.
Hmmm. Yeah. They’d better do that at a gun-free zone because what they are actually demonstrating is how easy it is for assholes to get themselves shot because someone thinks they are dangerous.
Because faking mass shootings is totally a way to prov that they shouldn’t have their guns taken away from them…
What a nice idea, a crowd of belligerent arseholes with loaded weapons; the only thing at risk is a bloodbath. I hope for their sake there are no backfiring cars or similar nearby.
They seem to be deliberately setting up a situation in which people could be shot for real and nobody would notice until after the “theatrical performance”. Presumably they’re all so very responsible that nothing like that could possibly happen.
Are these activists related to this group which conducted an experiment in which they attempted to see what might have happened if one armed civilian had been present in the Charlie Hebdo offices?
Spoilers alert:
1) The outcome would have probably not been very different.
2) The gun activists still insist that it would have been better if an armed person had been present.
Wouldn’t it be great if everybody had a gun?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCtD3OJ-_Es