Yep only in Texas is it illegal to brandish a Dildo but ok to hold tight onto their handgun – PB/TK
Bulletproof T-shirt makers encourage students to question gun carry laws – Tom Dart April 17 2017
For the loyal college student who wants to sport university colours while feeling protected from an active shooter, a campus group has a spoof apparel line for you. Among the items Student Body Armor offers are bulletproof T-shirts.
The campaign by Cocks not Glocks, named after dildo-themed protests against campus gun carry protests held last year, hopes to attract the attention of high school students who are mulling over which college to choose.
“Don’t get caught in the crossfire. Get student body armor,” says a video created by advertising agency FCB New York, which notes that nine states allow “virtually anyone with a license” to bring a gun on to school grounds.
With clothes dubbed “a proprietary blend of Type II body armor and school pride”, it is a ridiculous way of making a serious point – much like the Cocks Not Glocks demonstration last August at the University of Texas at Austin, when activists distributed thousands of dildos as a critique of Texas’s new law allowing licence-holders aged 21 and over to carry concealed handguns in most places at public higher education institutions.
The aim was to highlight the perceived absurdity of rules that make brandishing sex toys potentially illegal, while the state’s Republican-dominated legislature has given its blessing to young people attending classes or entering a dorm room with a holstered revolver.
It is about “absurd branding that makes people just slow down for a second and question what they value as acceptable in day-to-day life”, said Jessica Jin, a former University of Texas student who founded Cocks Not Glocks.
Continue to theguardian.com article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/18/bulletproof-t-shirt-gun-carry-laws-texas-universities-cocks-not-glocks
