Cocks Not Glocks: University Of Texas Students Plan Provocative Protest Of New Campus Carry Law

[kpete]

I think this should go national:


https://www.facebook.com/events/1686524198249678/


Students at the University Of Texas at Austin are planning to protest a new law that permits the concealed carry of handguns on campus — with dildos.

The “campus carry” law passed by the Texas legislature and signed by the Governor in June, requires UT Austin and the other campuses in the UT system to allow students to carry guns on campus. It gives the schools some discretion on how to implement the law.

The protest is designed to draw attention to the fact that carrying a dildo to class could be “prohibited expression” under university rules. The rules prohibit “any writing or visual image, or engage in any public performance, that is obscene.”

“You’re carrying a gun to class? Yeah well I’m carrying a HUGE DILDO. Just about as effective at protecting us from sociopathic shooters, but much safer for recreational play,” the organizer, Jessica Jin, wrote.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/10/11/3711527/cocks-not-glocks-university-of-texas-students-plan-provocative-protest-of-new-campus-carry-law/

[AuntPatsy]

1. Ugh just No

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Why not? The entire gun discussion has...

gotten so ridiculous that adding nonsense like this to it might raise it a bit.

[RKP5637]

3. Quite true. In a sick gun country like the US, what's another display of a cock. n/t

[Seeking Serenity]

4. Ew.

Just ew.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. I find people carrying AR-15s into starbucks more offensive than seeing anything regarding sex

But YMMV

[Seeking Serenity]

11. I've never seen anyone carrying an AR-15 into a Starbucks. Not 'round here anyway.

But then, I live in God's Country (Arkansas), not some crazy place.

YMMV

[Warren DeMontague]

12. I guess we all have different definitions of crazy.

But what do I know, I live in "Cthulhu's country", and as such am probably morally deficient.

Probably explains why i dont melt down at the sight of a jelly dildo.

[madinmaryland]

18. Hmmm. Escapees from an insane asylum...

or gungeoneers.

[valerief]

5. This is adorable and perfect for college students to do.

[joeybee12]

6. I love it...knr

[hack89]

7. We can have both, you know. No need to choose between the two. Nt

[ileus]

8. Make mine CZ or M&P

[Warren DeMontague]

9. It's pretty insane that in some states you can get arrested for having a vibrator in your house

But assault weapons can be paraded around in public.

[Snobblevitch]

13. When and where was the last time anyone was arrested for having a vibrator in their house?

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Im sure it was more recent than the last time anyone had their "huntin' rifle" confiscated by a

'Gun grabber'

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=128066

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_obscenity_statute

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/02/11/obscenity.trial.reut/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-m-appel/alabamas-bad-vibrations_b_300491.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/30/the-town-where-your-sex-toy-could-land-you-in-jail.html

[Snobblevitch]

19. I'm not following you.

What's the connection?

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Here, I'll help you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-m-appel/alabamas-bad-vibrations_b_300491.html

Alabamans who sell sex toys -- even inside so-called "adult oriented" businesses -- face up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine. Repeat offenders risk a ten year prison sentence.

Yet in Alabama you can buy a gun in wal-mart, can't you? But you go to prison for selling a sex toy.

You don't think there's even the tiniest thing fucked up with that?

Maybe if they designed the vibrators to fire 9 mm ammo, then no one would be thrown in prison over them.

Okay, I know where you're going. Here, lemme help you; "butbutbut you said people were getting arrested for having vibrators in their houses!"


It's called hyperbole. You know, like "Obama wants to take all my guns!" Do "Second Amendment Enthusiasts" really fucking believe the black helicopters are going to come into their paneled basements and take all the precious? Really? Guess what, gang. Find a new anxiety- that one isn't happening. Feel better?

So, yes, a smidge of the ol' hyperbole. Guilty as charged.

And yes, you're right, like this particular woman was busted with more than one vibrator, possession with intent to sell, apparently. So.... totally fucking reasonable that she was facing a year in prison over it. I mean, the laws are very generous in that they probably won't come into your house and arrest you for your own vibrator, they may even let you keep it. You are correct.

Meanwhile, though, carry around all the assault weapons in public that you want. Yay freedom!

[Snobblevitch]

34. You're right,

that Alabama law banning the sale of sex toys is ridiculous. It does nit appear to be widely enforced but it probably is stopping businesses from engaging in commerce.

[MineralMan]

36. Well, since every mail order catalog, including ones targeting

people one step away from the assisted living facility, has a couple of pages of sex toys in it, such a ban is worthless. It's an unenforceable, useless sop for the terminally annoyed to toy with. People will simply order their dildos, vibrators and other such paraphernalia from a catalog or online and have it shipped to their door.

Nobody will be arrested for ordering or owning such devices. Any law like that is a look-see piece of legislation designed to pump up the egos (or something) of whatever legislators sponsored the law.

If the students at that college want to open carry dildos or any other sex toys as a protest, they should do it. Will it have shock value? Maybe not on campus, but certainly in the neighborhood of the campus. It won't be effective against the proliferation of firearms, but it will at least make a point.

Sounds like a great idea that will provoke thought and lots of laughter at the same time. Guys should open carry them, too, since there are laws against exposing the real thing in public.

Open Dildo Carry Rules!

[madinmaryland]

42. Your last sentence sums up what I love about DU...

Open Dildo Carry Rules!

[MineralMan]

43. Cool!

Once in a while, I hit one away.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. And, as well, there's a town in Georgia where it's apparently illegal to buy them, even online.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/30/the-town-where-your-sex-toy-could-land-you-in-jail.html

[Snobblevitch]

38. I wonder how they enforce the ban on on-line sales?

[Warren DeMontague]

39. Short answer, they probably dont.

Still, ridiculous law nonetheless.

"Sandy springs" sure sounds uncomfortable in a sexual context, too.

[prayin4rain]

24. Wow, how bizarro is that?? Selling toys that cause pleasure is illegal, but selling toys that cause

death is legal. Most people who own either do so for nothing more than their own personal enjoyment.
(I consider daydreaming about being prepared when that home invasion that will never happen occurs, personal enjoyment.)

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Im going to defend myself with a sybian, a fleshlight, and "big mike"

But yeah, what you said.

[prayin4rain]

44. Haha, good plan n/t

[TipTok]

15. Carry what you please and leave everyone else alone...

[aikoaiko]

16. I approve of both!

[Paladin]

17. UT 's concealed carry starts on 8/1/2016: the 50th anniversary of the campus shootings.

The Texas politicians who arranged the effective date---and those who support it---might as well be pissing on the graves of Charles Whitman's victims. Just further evidence of how sick and degenerate this country's gun culture has become.

[Le Taz Hot]

20. LOVE THIS!

[closeupready]

21. It's a free country.

But

[Warren DeMontague]

23. I roll my eyes at the guys who need to tote their ar-15s to the coffee store.

The moral panic and doily-clutching outrage of people who flip out over sex toys but don't care about weapons designed to maim and kill, that's what makes me

[BuddhaGirl]

40. +1000

Death by dildo??

[Warren DeMontague]

41. Sex is dirty, nasty, evil, and harmy-harms.

Shootin' shit, OTOH, is good clean 'murikan fun.

[Initech]

26. More guns on campus - yay great idea!

[GGJohn]

27. Can you point out where it's been a problem at the other state colleges

that allow for CC?

[Initech]

28. Can you point out where open carry laws have actually made us safer?

[GGJohn]

29. This isn't about open carry,

it's about concealed carry on campuses.

[Initech]

30. So? You really think more guns are going to stop mass shootings?

[GGJohn]

31. That's not what I asked you.

Can you point out where other state campuses that allow for concealed carry has been a problem?

[ananda]

32. Can you point out why it's good or needed?

Go ahead and try.

[GGJohn]

33. Answer a question with a question?

Perhaps you can answer the question?

It's not good nor bad, nor is it needed or not needed, it's the choice of the state to allow for it and the choice of the students/faculty to exercise it.

Now, can you point out where it's been a problem at the other state university's that allow for CC?

[JCMach1]

35. Gun fetishists left and right will never answer the question...

Guns have absolutely no place in an educational setting.