Violet Crown Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Tomorrow I need to get Great Girl to campus for a final exam, about which she's already pretty anxious. This will be made more challenging by the group of lunatics who have decided to stage a Mock Mass Shooting next to the college campus--in fact, along the very road I need to be driving on. Finals Week was deliberately chosen, and in fact this tasteful display was originally planned to be performed right on the campus, in the midst of already-stressed students (until the University said they'd be arrested for criminal trespass). Both the pro- and anti- sides of our current local concealed carry debate think this is an awful idea and have appealed to them not to stage this. They are undeterred. I lack words for any of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 No. Just no. That is insane. And during finals?!?!? I'm sorry. I hope she doesn't see this, and that her exam goes well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 I'm going to have to take a roundabout route, and hopefully avoid directly experiencing the excitement, but I'm informed that it will involve sound amplification of the gunshots. So everyone will get to listen to gunplay while scribbling in their blue books. What could possibly be the down side? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 What type of group would do this? I'm surprised there isn't a law against this. Anyone who doesn't know it is staged would be terrified. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quark Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 What a great idea. Why don't they detonate some explosives too while they are at it? :glare: :glare: :glare: I'm sure all the students could do with more stress. :cursing: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/12/gun-rights-groups-plan-to-stage-mock-mass-shooting-at-ut-austin.html/ http://news.utexas.edu/2015/12/09/ut-austin-statement-about-event-by-outside-group http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2015-12-10/news-roundup-special-edition-campus-carry/ Here is what I could find about the group that is planning it and the university's response 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 What type of group would do this? I'm surprised there isn't a law against this. Anyone who doesn't know it is staged would be terrified. "Come and Take It Texas" and "Don't Comply." There is a parade of rifles simultaneously scheduled for downtown. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnib Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Oh good grief! These gun folks don't realize that making everyone upset with them hurts their cause. Tunnel vision. Best of luck to Great Girl! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoobie Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Disturbing freaks. :( 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SproutMamaK Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 "There hasn't been a mass shooting for a while, we should probably make one up, it always seems to help people realize the important of making sure everyone can own guns."erm... ok... good luck with that logic. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 No. Just no. /gun owner and CC-er. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 No. Just no. /gun owner and CC-er. The gun rights groups that are actually from here have denounced this idiocy and asked them not to do it. Like zoobie said, these are Disturbing Freaks. To whom the well-being of lots of children, many of them living away from home for the first time and taking their first college finals, is beneath concern. Oooooh I'm angry. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnib Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Just checking in for updates. I hope everything went well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 Just checking in for updates. I hope everything went well. Dh just drove her in; said there wasn't any sign of trouble. Either the drizzle drove them off or the PD explained to them the charges that would follow should they step a toe across the legal line. Very relieved. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerileanne99 Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Dh just drove her in; said there wasn't any sign of trouble. Either the drizzle drove them off or the PD explained to them the charges that would follow should they step a toe across the legal line. Very relieved. So glad. Hubby had to go in to give 2 finals today (at another Texas uni) and we can't even imagine that scenario:( Maybe the nuts were driven off by the offer of tha LARPers offering to meet them with Nerf swords, pool noodles, and confetti bombs.... What is wrong with people?! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnib Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Dh just drove her in; said there wasn't any sign of trouble. Either the drizzle drove them off or the PD explained to them the charges that would follow should they step a toe across the legal line. Very relieved. Oh good! I'm relieved to hear students weren't having to run a gauntlet or hears "shots" fired during an exam. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I'm glad it went well. That was so disturbing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 (edited) Last update. When Great Girl finished her exam she wandered over to the planned location (!!!!! foolish teenagers...) to see what was up. She reports lots of police ostentatiously present on the scene and nothing else: no demonstrators or counter-demonstrators. Nothing to see here, folks. Thank you friends, who have been supportive as the world goes mad around us all. ETA: Here's what we apparently missed: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local-education/gun-rights-marchers-protest-near-ut-mock-shooting-/nphwD/ Edited December 12, 2015 by Violet Crown 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brehon Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 (edited) I wondered if they were actually going through with their demonstration. You know what would have made it worse is that these lunatics originally were planning for their demonstration to occur on West Mall - just where Whitman shot several people coming out of the six pack almost 50 years ago. Very glad Great Girl's final went well. Edited December 12, 2015 by brehon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SproutMamaK Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 So it pretty much sounds like it turned in to a celebration of dildos and fart guns. Now THAT's the college experience right there. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 So it pretty much sounds like it turned in to a celebration of dildos and fart guns. Now THAT's the college experience right there. If that's all I really missed I'm not too bummed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted December 13, 2015 Author Share Posted December 13, 2015 So it pretty much sounds like it turned in to a celebration of dildos and fart guns. Now THAT's the college experience right there. Very well said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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