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jpak

(41,758 posts) Wed Dec 9, 2015, 05:53 PM Dec 2015

Gun rights groups plan mock mass shooting at University of Texas one week after 14 killed in San Be

Source: NY Daily News

In the wake of two terror attacks, two gun rights groups in Texas have decided now is a good time for a mock mass shooting.

Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com are planning the emphatic demonstration on the campus of University of Texas in Austin on Saturday.

The groups will "take to the streets armed with rifles and pistols on display followed by a crisis performance," according to a press release posted on Facebook.

Fake blood will be used, the groups' spokesperson Matthew Short told the Statesman.

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Gun rights groups plan mock mass shooting at University of Texas one week after 14 killed in San Be (Original Post) jpak Dec 2015 OP

how f***** up is this?..... mrmpa Dec 2015 #1

Whatever it takes... JustADumbFireman Dec 2015 #2

What could possibly go wrong? Nailzberg Dec 2015 #3

Freud would have such a field day with these Whack-a-Doodles! kecpdx Dec 2015 #4

You've GOT to be shitting me! Bigmack Dec 2015 #5

So if in the middle of this 'mock scene' a w0nderer Dec 2015 #6

'Gun-troll clubs' will Not be allowed to have such a protest on campus,they are not students/staff. Sunlei Dec 2015 #7

Let them use live ammo instead and then we can give them all Darwin Awards??? winstars Dec 2015 #8

Guess the yahoo gunners will show how they believe an armed bunch of George Zimmermans would handle Hoyt Dec 2015 #9

Possibile reprise of the musical, "I Just Fucking Shot Myself," Hoppy Dec 2015 #10

WTF? Why don't they fake-rape little kiddies while they're at it? valerief Dec 2015 #11

Does it strike anyone else that a "mock mass shooting" mocks mass shootings? baldguy Dec 2015 #12

they're cowards, and that is how cowards think Skittles Dec 2015 #13

Yes they are cowards, but passiveporcupine Dec 2015 #14

mrmpa

(4,033 posts)

1. how f***** up is this?.....

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 05:57 PM

Dec 2015

Wasn't it at the University of Texas where Charles Whitman holed himself up in the clock tower and shot and killed numerous individuals back in the late '60's or early '70's?

On edit it was 1966

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman

JustADumbFireman

(59 posts)

2. Whatever it takes...

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 06:03 PM

Dec 2015

... to convince the majority of Americans just how SICK, SICK, SICK these people are.

Nailzberg

(4,610 posts)

3. What could possibly go wrong?

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 06:05 PM

Dec 2015

kecpdx

(6 posts)

4. Freud would have such a field day with these Whack-a-Doodles!

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 06:12 PM

Dec 2015

I've always thought NRA "members" was just such a delicious oxymoron

Bigmack

(8,020 posts)

5. You've GOT to be shitting me!

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 06:17 PM

Dec 2015

Surely this is from the Onion! Oh, it isn't? Oh, it's from Texas. OK, THAT explains it. Ms Bigmack

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)

6. So if in the middle of this 'mock scene' a

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 06:34 PM

Dec 2015

"good guy shooter" (you know the theoretical one that always saves the day and rides into the sunset on whistling 'i'm a lonesome cowboy')...comes in and 'saves the day (ie..shoots the mock bad guys)

or if a cop comes in and shoots the bad guys....

yeah no way that demonstration could go wrong

on the fun side, how many people will sue this group for ptsd after :-p

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

7. 'Gun-troll clubs' will Not be allowed to have such a protest on campus,they are not students/staff.

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 06:35 PM

Dec 2015

4:10 p.m. update: A University of Texas spokesman says the planned mock mass shooting demonstration this weekend would be considered criminal trespass if participants do not leave when asked.

“Within the university community, the campus is a place for the vigorous exchange of diverse viewpoints, which is an essential part of the educational experience,” said spokesman J.B. Bird. “The property or buildings owned or controlled by UT Austin are not, however, open to outside groups for assembly, speech, or other activities, including theatrical performances, as are the public streets, sidewalks, and parks. Only the university itself, faculty, staff and student groups may engage in such activities on campus. This applies equally to an outside protest group, an outside theater troupe, or any outside group wishing to use the facilities or grounds of the university.”

winstars

(4,220 posts)

8. Let them use live ammo instead and then we can give them all Darwin Awards???

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 06:36 PM

Dec 2015

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

9. Guess the yahoo gunners will show how they believe an armed bunch of George Zimmermans would handle

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:09 PM

Dec 2015

a mass shooting. Damn cowboys would kill even more people, not to mention incite more mass shootings. They ought to round those yahoos up and corral them on Cliven Bundy's ranch so they can join a militia.

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)

10. Possibile reprise of the musical, "I Just Fucking Shot Myself,"

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:26 PM

Dec 2015

this time, with full chorus.

valerief

(53,235 posts)

11. WTF? Why don't they fake-rape little kiddies while they're at it?

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:38 PM

Dec 2015

This is the stupidest, most useless thing I've ever heard of.

baldguy

(36,649 posts)

12. Does it strike anyone else that a "mock mass shooting" mocks mass shootings?

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 10:58 PM

Dec 2015

Play-acting & pretend machismo trivializes the real pain, suffering & loss of real people and their families.

A parade to piss on the victim's graves wouldn't be any less offensive.

Skittles

(153,185 posts)

13. they're cowards, and that is how cowards think

Reply to baldguy (Reply #12)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 11:17 PM

Dec 2015

paranoid pieces of shit

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)

14. Yes they are cowards, but

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 01:59 AM

Dec 2015

I think they just proved they are brain-dead idiots. And do we really want people who are brain-dead idiots walking around with real guns and live ammunition?

This is one of the most insane stunts I've ever heard of. I'm glad the Uni is shutting them down. I wonder if they will try to pick a different venue.

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