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Gun-Rights Groups Plan to Stage a Fake Mass Shooting in Austin
But it won’t show all the training that police will need to distinguish illegal combatants from legal ones after arriving at a fire fight.
Two gun-rights groups in Austin plan to stage a mock mass shooting in the heart of the city this weekend as a demonstration about open-carry laws.
The Austin American-Statesman reports that the groups—DontComply.com and the Texas chapter of Come and Take It America—mean to use actors (playing both victims and perpetrators), fake blood, cardboard weapons, and the sound of gunfire to recreate a crisis-shooting scenario.