Texas Students To Carry Dildos Around Campus In Bizarre Protest Against New Gun Law

Bogey Wells10 years ago

TEDDY’S BACK BITCHES!!! It takes a lot to bring me out of my slumber, but I felt this was an issue that warranted my mustachioed opinion. The general gist of this article and the issue it ultimately points to is the place of weapons/concealed weapons on college campuses, in large part to allow students to protect themselves from the large number of school shootings that have plagued our nations for the last several years.
Now, this is both a good idea and a bad one. Let’s get the good reasons out of the way first. It all boils down to a few simple facts: Gun free zones do not do jack shit, and no matter the police response, lone gunman cannnot be stopped for the first few minutes from killing as many people as they please since the police can only move so fast. So logically, allowing the students or teachers to arm themselves to be able to fight back is the only real option, and honestly I see no real alternative besides stationing a SWAT team at every corner of every building, which for obvious reasons is impossible. However, this arming of students/teachers with concealed or even open carry weapons is bad for the next few reasons.
A little preamble for my reasonings on this being a bad option: Ol’ Teddy goes to Mississippi State, and a little over a month ago we had a shooting scare that wound up being a major overestimation: the student in question had no weapon on him and was mentally ill, but an alert was sent out and campus was put on lockdown, which I believe was pretty reasonable. What followed for the next several hours after the alert fuels my negative views on arming students. And it all boils down to this simple fact: people are dumb panicky animals when faced with a threat.
I was in class in a building pretty far away from where the “shooter” was said to be. So while I was definitely nervous, maybe even scared, there wasn’t really much threat to me even if there had been a real gunman. So I spent the time on lockdown on our fraternity GroupMe, trying to account for everyone and making sure the guys who were actually in the buildings near the “shooter” were ok. As time drug on, there were numerous rumors and “reports” of multiple shooters, five at one point, and several dead, with one dumbass in our fraternity saying that it had to be ISIS, and that it was a coordinated attack because the “shooter” walked to the building next to the original one. So much planning required to walk next door. Anyway, the police responded very well and the “shooter” was arrested, and about an hour after the alert was issued, it was lifted and students were allowed to go home until classes resumed at 2pm. However, as I walked outside, there was a second scare as some person screamed “Gun!” on the drill field where hundreds of students were, and while the reason for the scream is unknown, the students literally stampeded off the field. I was just exiting my building and got a full view of this incident, and realized that people panicking at perceived threats is just as dangerous as there being a real one. But soon we all made it home.
Those threeish hours I spent at the fraternity house made it clear why concealed carry could be a bad idea. With the house being full of good ol’ southern boys, they would not stop talking for the next three hours about how if they had their pistols, they could have ended the threat right then and there, as at the time we did not know this was a false alert and we genuinely thought shots may have been fired.
But here is the thing: no one in this whole situation had any idea what the fuck was happening. So if one of our guys, let’s call him Austin, had seen a real gunman firing into students, and pulled his gun and fired back, that could have caused a multitude of dangerous and deadly problems, numbered below:
1. People were freaking the fuck out and running around, so if this guy had been shooting, and Austin shot back, first of all even if Austin was a good shot, he probably would have to deal with the body’s stress response to being terrified and likely would have missed and possibly hit a few of the dozens of students running around in panic, not to mention maybe being shot himself by the gunman, but since said gunman was already trying to kill people that’s really a moot point.
2. THIS IS LIKELY THE BIGGEST PROBLEM THAT COULD ARISE FROM CONCEALED CARRY ON A CAMPUS DURING A SHOOTING INCIDENT: Since as mentioned previously no one has any fucking clue what is happening, if Austin shot back, and another three students in the area also have weapons, they may not know that Austin isn’t the gunman. The buildings that were affected on campus had very tight corridors and numerous corners, so if some hero ran towards the gunshots, turned the corner, and sees Austin kill the shooter, how is the hero gonna know Austin is not the actual shooter? He just watched Austin gun someone down, and in the panic and stress of the moment, again accentuated by the fact that no one has any fucking clue what is happening or who the shooter is, the hero may shoot Austin. Then other students see the hero firing at Austin, who killed the shooter, leading them to think there are multiple shooters, with more students with concealed weapons maybe now firing on the hero, which means that since no one knows what the fuck is happening and who is the actual shooter but sees students gunning each other down, that adds to the confusion and panic and possibly more people dying. Not to mention giving the police a harder time for figuring out who is who, which leads to my next point.
3. This is similar to reason 2, but the police have no fucking clue who the shooter is either. They only possibly know where he is, and as confused as the whole campus was during our incident, they really could only boil that down to maybe three buildings, which take time to secure, which gives the gunman and any students fighting back more time to shoot at each other. So if a SWAT team storms the building, and they see Austin standing over the shooter’s body with a gun, or trading fire with the gunman, or trading fire with other confused and armed students for the reasons mentioned above, what do you think the SWAT team is going to do? They are going to return fire, probably much more effectively than anyone involved in the shooting. But since multiple students have concealed weapons and are shooting at each other, how are the cops supposed to know who the good guys are? They can’t. And thus they may kill more “innocent” people because they think there are multiple shooters.
So in summary, I don’t have an answer to protecting students from gunmen. Gun free zones aren’t going to stop a criminal or a psychopath, and the only real thing that works is locking the doors, barring them, and waiting for the cops. But that doesn’t help for the first few minutes, and God forbid the gunman is in a classroom. If multiple students are armed and fight back, that will only add to the confusion, as seen in students in my University panicking and stampeding on the drill field because someone thought they saw a gun and screamed, terrifying the fuck outta everyone. While allowing the students to arm themselves is the only real option I can see to try and let them protect themselves, it likely can cause just as many problems if not more to first responders and the campus as a whole for the above reason. Please feel free to prove me wrong, I really hope you do, but I cannot see letting every student arming themselves as helping. Maybe it will dissuade potential shooters, but that may do nothing to stop the mentally ill or glory hound sociopaths who want to kill as many people to get three days of coverage on CNN and FOX, as has been seen depressingly numerous times (seriously, our fucking media, both liberal and conservative, are pretty much only ensuring that shooters get time in the spotlight. The sheriff from that Washington shooting last week who refused to give the identity of the shooter to avoid turning him into a media sensation had the right idea, which the media fucked right on over by releasing his name moments later.)
So forgive me for the long rant, and while I belive fully in the 2nd Amendment, I don’t see all students being able to arm themselves as really able to help the situation based on my experience. Again, no one got hurt at my school, so it could be very well different for others, but I only see students shooting at each other in a gunman attack as getting more people hurt and adding to the panic.
Thank you for your time.
Teddy’s out, bitches!