AUSTIN – As students at the University of Texas at Austin cram for final exams this Saturday, two groups advocating an end to all gun-free zones are planning to stage a “mock shooting” on the school’s campus.
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“We want to educate the public on the dangers of gun-free zones”, he told TheBlaze in an interview Wednesday. These target rich environments are letting our children be murdered by evil people.
This law still allows for universities to draft up their own rules for specified gun-free zones, which is what Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com are hoping to change this weekend, by trying to terrify everyone around them into packing heat of their own. The groups, which have not asked UT for a permit, also plan on blasting gun noises through speakers and carrying cardboard weapons.
“When seconds count, the cops are minutes away”, he added.
The university, the site of the nation’s documented mass shooting on a college campus in 1966, did not immediately return request for comment.
As for how the demonstration may be perceived in light of the recent mass shootings in San Bernardino, California, and at a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado, Short says he isn’t anxious. “Now is the time to stand up, take a walk, and put pressure on politicians to ban Gun Free Zones”. “An armed society is a polite society”. However, they will soon be allowed to carry their weapons in public university buildings, like dorm rooms and classrooms when the campus carry law goes into effect in August 2016.
The other event is called the Life And Liberty Event to End Gun Free Zones.
Before Saturday’s fake shooting, armed demonstrators will march through Austin with rifles and pistols.
More than 1,800 students, parents and faculty members belong to the Gun Free UT group, according to the group’s Facebook page, which has been made private.
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The Open Carry Walk and Crisis Performance Event will feature actors armed with cardboard weapons.
