Summary: UT Austin students strap dildos on their backpacks to protest a new law allowing people to carry guns on campus.
Yes, you read it correctly.
At the University of Texas at Austin, students are protesting a new law that will allow more guns on campus next year, BoingBoing.net reports.
In Texas, where people often toss around the phrase “go big or go home,” students are going beyond your typical sign-bearing protest. Instead, they’re protesting the new gun law with giant, floppy dildos. Many of the dildos are neon-colored.
Not surprisingly, “strapping giant swinging dildos to…backpacks” is a violation of the school’s obscenity policy.
Jessica Jin organized the Campus (DILDO) Carry protest on Facebook. Her position is that more guns on campus will not increase student safety.
Last year, Kid Rock was subpoenaed to return a glass dildo.
So why dildos, of all items that could be strapped to one’s backpack? Jin explains, “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.”
Governor Greg Abbot signed S.B. 11, also known as the “campus carry” law, on June 1, 2015. The new legislation allows concealed carry license holders to carry a concealed handgun throughout university campuses as of August 1, 2016.
The Facebook page for the Campus (DILDO) Carry event states:
“The State of Texas has decided that it is not at all obnoxious to allow deadly concealed weapons in classrooms, however it DOES have strict rules about free sexual expression, to protect your innocence. You would receive a citation for taking a DILDO to class before you would get in trouble for taking a gun to class. Heaven forbid the penis.”
The comments section on the Facebook page has blown up, with those who support and oppose gun control facing off.
Gregory Pulensky comments, “You are a very brave young woman; be careful, the people on the other side of the ‘discussion’ are more than a little unhinged.”
George Pickering-Seba says, “You liberals are whack jobs. You just keep sinking deeper and deeper into lower forms of depravity every year. Walking around with dildos on your backsides…hahaha your grandparents would be so proud.”
Three years ago, a woman was arrested for throwing a sex toy at a cop.
Andre Hill asks, “So then why do the police bother with guns? Seems like they should just carry dildos instead…”
Dominic Guevara counters, “What if in carrying my gun the only thing I have in mind is your safety? Is it wrong for me to care for the protection of a stranger?”
An employee is demoted for a comment about a sex toy purchase.
According to The Daily Dot, the students plan to start carrying the dildos on August 24, 2016, the first day of the next fall semester. This is also the first day that students will be allowed to carry guns on campus, as long as they have concealed carry permits.
As of the publishing of this article, the Facebook event page had 4,200 participants, and 19,000 had been invited to the event. The twitter hashtag #cocksnotglocks was spreading like wildfire.
Source: BoingBoing.net
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