"Warning: NSFW"

That notice was included in The Dallas Morning News' Facebook Live video of this week's campus carry protest at the University of Texas at Austin, which has nearly 3 million views and counting.

The "Not Safe For Work" warning wasn't about guns, which kill around 30,000 people each year. Which are designed with the intended purpose of killing. Which are literally Not Safe For Work.

Nope. The warning was about fake phalluses.

Let that sink in. Deadly weapons, which are now welcomed in classrooms, are fine and dandy. But phallic symbols? Too much.

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The reaction to the Cocks Not Glocks protest shows exactly why it's so necessary.

Of course, waving around sex toys is ridiculous, especially on a college campus. That's the point. "We're fighting absurdity with absurdity" is the motto of the protest.

But too many people just don't seem to get it.

For example, Rare, a newer conservative/libertarian-leaning website, published an article titled, "The absurdity of the young anti-gun crowd has officially reached its climax." The publication, which has an entire section of stories taking down "political correctness," prefaced its article with, "Warning: this post contains images you may consider offensive or NSFW."

Rare, a website that has described trigger warnings as a "cancer," warns that its readers might be offended, might have their feelings hurt, by plastic penises. They don't seem to get the irony, especially since the protest was against actual triggers.

While I'm not aware of it being enforced, UT's rules, supported by the Texas penal code, prohibit distributing or displaying "on the campus any writing or visual image, or engag[ing] in any public performance, that is obscene," which is a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $500 fine. As Cocks Not Glocks founder Jessica Jin told me back in October, "The state of Texas has decided that it is not at all obnoxious to allow deadly concealed weapons in classrooms; however, it DOES have strict rules about free sexual expression, to protect your innocence."

Ana Lopez of Students Against Campus Carry explained to The Dallas Morning News why she opposes campus carry: "College students are supposed to be worrying about homework and relationships and parties. They're not supposed to be worrying about whether their lab partner has a loaded gun in their backpack. I don't think that those who drafted the Bill of Rights thought that a 'well-regulated militia' started in my organic chemistry classroom."

Indeed, the Founding Fathers themselves — at least, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison — were explicitly opposed to guns on campus. (I'm not aware if they took a stance on sex toys, though.)

Admittedly, I don't think campus carry will make UT all that dangerous. But at the end of the day, fake phalluses shouldn't be more offensive than deadly weapons.