{"id":182359,"date":"2015-10-11T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/11\/keeping-austin-weird\/"},"modified":"2015-10-11T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T21:52:00","slug":"keeping-austin-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/11\/keeping-austin-weird\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Austin Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Texas Legislature, in its infinite wisdom, had decided to make restrictions on carrying firearms on college campuses illegal.<\/div>\n

In response, UT-Austin students are staging a Cocks not Glocks<\/span><\/b> protest<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Hundreds of students at the University of Texas at Austin will protest a new law that will allow more guns on campus not with signs or sit-ins, but by “strapping gigantic swinging dildos to our backpacks.” <\/p>\n

Their mantra? #CocksNotGlocks <\/p>\n

Jessica Jin, who set up the “Campus (DILDO) Carry” event <\/a>on Facebook, invokes the argument that allowing more guns on campus will make students safe is a fallacy. She’s urging students to send campus leaders that message by strapping on the plastic phalluses.<\/p>\n

‘You’re carrying a gun to class? Yeah well I’m carrying a HUGE DILDO,'” Jin says in the group’s description. “Just about as effective at protecting us from sociopathic shooters, but much safer for recreational play.” <\/p>\n

More than 330 people had signed up to participate by Saturday morning. The “strap in” will occur on Aug. 24, 2016, the first day of next year’s fall semester. <\/p>\n

The event was created the same day one student was killed and another wounded in a shooting <\/a>at Texas Southern University, and just days after other deadly shootings on campuses in Oregon and Arizona. <\/p>\n

Pro-campus carry advocates have said allowing concealed handguns on campus will enable people to defend themselves in the event of a live shooter, while those against it say it makes little difference and could even add to the chaos.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 It’s nice that some things never change in Austin, but this protest is not going to make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Texas Legislature, in its infinite wisdom, had decided to make restrictions on carrying firearms on college campuses illegal. In response, UT-Austin students are staging a Cocks not Glocks protest: Hundreds of students at the University of Texas at Austin will protest a new law that will allow more guns on campus not with signs …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,1055,1049,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-gun-laws","category-protests","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}