Does Texas Tech’s ‘Guns Up’ Glorify the Use of Firearms?

By Beth Baumann

Every college has a saying that surrounds the school’s mascot and there’s usually a song or hand gesture that accompanies that saying as well.

At Texas Tech, the mascot is the Masked Rider, a live horse rider, and because it’s Texas, the saying is “Guns Up!” accompanied with a hand gesture with fully automatic finger gun. The proud saying has been used throughout academia and sporting events to instill pride and excitement, and has not claimed the lives, or academic career of, any students in all the years it’s been used.

“It’s something that we’re all really proud of and support of here on campus,” said current Texas Tech student James Bethke.

But leave it to the gun control liberals to ruin a good thing.

On Thursday, Texas Tech University released open records showing a previous dispute between a Tech alumnus and the school’s administration concerning the phrase ‘Guns up.’

Anti-gunners, including a Texas Tech alumni, Michael Grant, Ph.D., spoke out against the tradition, saying the phrase and symbol is “inappropriate” and claiming the university’s continual use of “Guns Up!”…. glorifies the use of firearms.

When Grant received a letter from the college in 2013 bearing the threatening phrase, he wrote a …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms