FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 05/22/2016

CONTACT:
Antonia Okafor, Southwest Regional Director, Students for Concealed Carry (SCC):
antonia.okafor@concealedcampus.org
Michael Newbern, Assistant Director of Public Relations, SCC: michael.newbern@concealedcampus.org
The False Premise of #CocksNotGlocks
AUSTIN, TX - The website for the anti-campus carry #CocksNotGlocks protest claims that the point of the protest is to
illustrate the absurdity of laws under which UT-Austin students "would receive a citation for taking a dildo to class
before [they] would get in trouble for taking a gun to class"; however, the reality is that dildos are not banned at UTAustin and that, even under Texas Senate Bill 11, handguns will be much more heavily restricted on the university
campus than will sex toys.
This coming fall, University of Texas at Austin students opposed to the state's new campus carry law will protest the law
by hanging dildos from their backpacks. Although Students for Concealed Carry fully supports the right of students to
protest in this manner, SCC is compelled to point out that the #CocksNotGlocks protest is based on a false premise.
The basis for the claim that dildos are "illegal" on the UT-Austin campus is a Texas law stating, "A person commits an
offense if he intentionally or knowingly displays or distributes an obscene photograph, drawing, or similar visual
representation or other obscene material and is reckless about whether a person is present who will be offended or
alarmed by the display or distribution," and a university policy stating, "No person or organization will distribute or
display on the campus any writing or visual image, or engage in any public performance, that is obscene."
Although a phallic sex toy could conceivably be ruled "obscene," a ban on the display or distribution of an object is not
the same as a ban on the object itself. Every student at UT-Austin currently has and will retain the right (under school
policy and all applicable laws) to possess a dildo on the university campus. However, under the campus carry law,
anyone other than a law enforcement officer or licensed adult (age 21 or above) who possesses a handgun on campus
will be guilty of a third-degree felony punishable by ten years in prison, a $10,000 fine, a mandatory lifetime prohibition
against obtaining a license to carry, and a mandatory federal lifetime prohibition against owning a gun.
A student who displays obscene material on the UT-Austin campus is in violation of a petty crime punishable by a $500
fine. Under the campus carry law, a license holder who displays a handgun on the UT-Austin campus will be guilty of a
serious crime punishable by a year in jail, a $4,000 fine, and a mandatory five-year revocation of the offender's license to
carry.
Last but not least, university officials have clearly stated that the display of dildos in protest of campus carry is a
constitutionally protected expression of free speech and that neither campus law enforcement nor school officials will
take any action against students who participate in the protest. There is no such exception to the policies and laws
against the display of handguns on campus.
Students who oppose campus carry have every right to carry dildos in protest; however, they have no basis to claim that
those dildos are somehow more heavily regulated than are the concealed handguns carried by trained, licensed adults.
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ABOUT STUDENTS FOR CONCEALED CARRY Students for Concealed Carry (SCC) is a national, non-partisan, grassroots
organization comprising college students, faculty, staff, and concerned citizens who believe that holders of state-issued
concealed handgun licenses should be allowed the same measure of personal protection on college campuses that
current laws afford them virtually everywhere else. SCC is not affiliated with the NRA or any other organization. For

more information on SCC, visit ConcealedCampus.org or Facebook.com/ConcealedCampus. For more information on the
debate over campus carry in Texas, visit WhyCampusCarry.com.
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