Open-carry activists plan to stage a mock mass shooting Saturday at the University of Texas at Austin to protest gun-free zones on campus.

The Open Carry Walk and Crisis Performance Event will have actors “shot” by fake shooters with cardboard weapons and the sounds of gunshots via a bullhorn, according to the Austin American-Statesman. A walk down a street that borders the campus, in which participants are encouraged to bring their “rifles and legal pistols,” will precede the performance.

“It’s a fake mass shooting and we’ll use fake blood,” Matthew Short, spokesman for gun rights groups Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com, told the newspaper.

So let me get this straight.  Everyone brings their real guns, and then they conduct a massacre using cardboard guns.  All to show that there should be no gun-free zones.

Pretty messed up.  Seems to me like those who want guns NOT on campus would be staging a bloody protest ritual.