Proponents of concealed-carry legislation will host a "fake mass shooting" at the University of Texas at Austin this weekend, the Austin American-Statesman reports. The event, which organizers are calling the Open Carry Walk and Crisis Performance Event, will use fake blood, cardboard weapons, and the sounds of gunfire played from loudspeakers.
The newspaper reports that the gun-rights groups organizing the event, Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com, were not seeking permission from the university.
The university is not wild about the idea. In a written statement in response to the plan, the university’s spokesman, J.B. Bird, said outside groups that seek to use the university’s grounds "and violate our rules regarding use of our grounds and facilities" are asked to leave. "If they do not," the statement says, "it becomes a criminal-trespass matter."
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/gun-rights-demonstrators-plan-fake-mass-shooting-at-u-of-texas/107265