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defrogITEM: Open-carry groups Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com plan to stage an open-carry demonstration next to the University of Texas at Austin. The protest will feature a mock mass shooting using fake guns, stage blood and the sounds of gunshots blasted through a bullhorn.
Organizer Murdoch Pizgatti describes it as a "public theatrical performance against gun-free zones":
Which is just dumb. Even if you believe Open Carry is a good idea, it’s ridiculous to try and prove yr point by acting out a staged situation with an outcome you have full control over – which is pretty much the opposite of what an actual mass shooting situation is like, as people are actually trained for such situations will tell you.
So Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com may think they’re making some grand point to anti-gun people about how gun-free zones just invite a mass shooting and you’ll wish the Good Guys With Guns were there to save you when the shit goes down.
What they’re actually doing is acting out the Die Hard gun-fu fantasies playing in their head that have nothing to do with reality, and passing it off as an argument in favor of Open Carry. Which is about as effective as bringing AR-15s to political rallies and Chipotles.
Even some other pro-gun groups say so:
Honestly, the only way they can realistically demonstrate the effectiveness of Good Guys With Guns in mass shooting scenarios is to be caught up in a real mass shooting. And frankly the track record of Good Guys With Guns in such scenarios is not that great.
BACKGROUND: Texas passed a law in June making it legal to carry concealed weapons on college campuses, but the law takes effect next August, and it comes with a number of restrictions, which means you can’t take yr concealed weapon just anywhere.
Mocking the mock shooters,
This is dF
Organizer Murdoch Pizgatti describes it as a "public theatrical performance against gun-free zones":
"It's basically going to be a hostage situation where people are shot and then the one person with a concealed handgun will come in and save the situation and reduce the body count," said Pizgatti. "It's pretty much going to be portraying the incidents in gun free zones and why they happen. The bad guys don't obey gun free zone signs and good people do."
Which is just dumb. Even if you believe Open Carry is a good idea, it’s ridiculous to try and prove yr point by acting out a staged situation with an outcome you have full control over – which is pretty much the opposite of what an actual mass shooting situation is like, as people are actually trained for such situations will tell you.
So Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com may think they’re making some grand point to anti-gun people about how gun-free zones just invite a mass shooting and you’ll wish the Good Guys With Guns were there to save you when the shit goes down.
What they’re actually doing is acting out the Die Hard gun-fu fantasies playing in their head that have nothing to do with reality, and passing it off as an argument in favor of Open Carry. Which is about as effective as bringing AR-15s to political rallies and Chipotles.
Even some other pro-gun groups say so:
"I'm astounded that eighteen months after most of the state's open carry groups figured out that carrying rifles and shotguns into restaurants and grocery stores isn't a solid public-relations strategy, one such group apparently thinks that introducing openly carried long guns, fake blood, and the sound of gunshots into a university community that is highly uncertain about the new campus carry law and understandably concerned about recent high-profile mass shootings is a smart idea," said Antonia Okafor, Southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry.
Honestly, the only way they can realistically demonstrate the effectiveness of Good Guys With Guns in mass shooting scenarios is to be caught up in a real mass shooting. And frankly the track record of Good Guys With Guns in such scenarios is not that great.
BACKGROUND: Texas passed a law in June making it legal to carry concealed weapons on college campuses, but the law takes effect next August, and it comes with a number of restrictions, which means you can’t take yr concealed weapon just anywhere.
Mocking the mock shooters,
This is dF
