By now most people are aware of the new campus carry law in Texas. According to Senate Bill 11, all handgun license holders can now carry their concealed weapon on college campuses. The bill was passed mid-2015 giving people time to prepare for the new implementation. What people weren’t prepared for, however, was an anti-gun protest fueled by angry college students and dildos. Yes, you read that right.
The Facebook group “Campus (DILDO) Carry”, a protest group spear-headed by Jessica Jin, had little idea that their protest would organize as well as it did. The Facebook group invite was originally sent out to a small amount of University of Texas Students, inviting them to carry or strap on dildos on the first day of fall semester instead of guns.
Word of mouth, or in this case media, spread and the Facebook group had grown to thousands of members and had reached attention from news outlets. They also managed to gain the support of several sex shops who were willing to donate to the cause.
I know what you’re thinking. They’re using dildos to fight guns? No, they’re using dildos as a way to reference the fact that they think campus carry is as ludicrous and useless to their education as carrying a dildo around campus would be.
As a person who is indifferent to campus carry, I am not saying I am a strong promoter of doing away with Senate Bill 11, but I do like their style.
Not only did they think outside the box, they brought up some good points. As mentioned by the protest group when asked why they chose to use dildos as their weapon of choice in the fight against guns, it is against UT’s code of conduct to promote or possess “a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.”
These students want to know why it is okay for someone to carry a gun into a classroom, but it is illegal to possess a dildo. And they’re in the right to ask this question.
Another point brought up is that if this obscenity rule is in their code of conduct, then obscenity must in some way hinder their education. Why then is campus carry not considered a hindrance to their education when several professors refuse to work for universities that allow campus carry? I honestly had not even thought of this until now.
According to a video that was recorded on UT’s campus, more than 5,000 dildos were handed out during the protest, making it one of the biggest anti-gun protests in the state of Texas. Their approach “Cocks Not Glocks” seems to have made an impact in their community. When protests are made to be peaceful, witty, laughable, and are backed by intelligence more people are down for the cause.
It is unknown how long the protest will last, but until then it doesn’t seem like they’re going to lie back and take it.
