Texas Students Stage 'Cocks Not Glocks' Protest (Video)

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Texas Students Stage 'Cocks Not Glocks' Protest
Students at the University of Texas at Austin made headlines waving dildos on campus, to highlight the absurdity that guns are allowed but sex toys are not. 
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          Aug 25, 2016
          
        
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Texas Students Stage 'Cocks Not Glocks' Protest

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Texas Students Stage 'Cocks Not Glocks' Protest

Students at the University of Texas at Austin made headlines waving dildos on campus, to highlight the absurdity that guns are allowed but sex toys are not.

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After the former DHS secretary’s husband, Bryon Noem, was accused of having a secret cross-dressing fetish, she no longer wants to be the center of attention, writes Josh Ackley.

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