Who would have thought there would be a day where guns and sex toys would be added to back-to-school shopping lists?

In 2015, Texas Governor Greg Abbot signed a bill which overturned a 140-year-old ban on guns in the state. Citizens became legally able to openly carry guns almost everywhere.

Currently, the Texas gun law states "A person may carry, either open or concealed, in a non-threatening or alarming manner, a shotgun or rifle." Numerous students at University of Texas at Austin, a public research university, have begun carrying guns to class and around campus. While they uphold their right, other students and professors are put off by the new, uncomfortable atmosphere which has taken over the learning environment.

While a few professors have resigned from their positions in effort to avoid the situation as a whole, some passionate students have decided to fight fire with fire.

Activist students have taken to printing banners, creating posters, and chanting "Gun-free U.T.!" as evident in a viral video, uploaded by the New York Times.

Hoping to draw attention to the absurdity of the situation, protestors are not only chanting around campus, but they are also carrying around sex toys. Bright and large dildos are being carried openly and proudly to class, in place of guns.

T-shirts with "Cocks Not Glocks" written boldly across the front are also being sold, with all proceeds going toward an U.T. organization called University Democrats, Students Against Campus Carry.

A Facebook page titled "Cocks Not Glocks: Campus (DILDO) Carry" has also been created to further spread the message and increase participation. The web page criticizes the University of Texas for allowing deadly concealed weapons in classrooms, but permitting sex toys. Jessica Jin, creator of the Facebook page and leader of the protest stated, "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."

An angry responder, talking about her gun, commented on the Facebook page, "I can pull her out and beat an attacker with it" and "protect me and mine."

Reports show "there have been at least 191 school shootings since 2013 in America - an average of nearly one a week." These shocking statistics, coupled with notorious traumatizing events such as the Columbine High School Massacre and the Virginia Tech shooting, give individuals of the U.T. community fair reasons to be skeptical and afraid.

While it is clear that there are several conflicting views on this issue, the University of Texas faculty must ultimately decide how to combat all the commotion.