Mass shootings have become a grisly routine in America, with each new event settling into the now-familiar pattern of “active shooter” alerts, helicopter shots of students running out of classrooms, and the media scrum as reporters rush to interview the survivors and the neighbors of the shooter. Last week’s shooting in San Bernardino, the deadliest since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, has re-ignited a long-simmering debate over efforts to strengthen gun-control legislation nationwide.

That debate has triggered backlash from Second Amendment activists, who have stepped forward with their own solution to gun violence: more guns, everywhere. Two gun-rights groups will make their case this weekend by staging a mock mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin. The campus is grappling with a new state law that will allow people with permits to carry concealed handguns in classrooms, dorms, and other public campus buildings. The law has been vigorously opposed by critics, who are pushing the university to allow more gun-free zones on campus.

“It’s a fake mass shooting, and we’ll use fake blood,” Matthew Short, a spokesman for Come and Take It Texas and DontComply.com told the Austin American-Statesman. Actors carrying cardboard weapons will appear to shoot other participants as the sound of gunshots rings from megaphones, he said, while mock rescuers rush in with their own fake guns.

The event is called the Life And Liberty Event to End Gun Free Zones. It will begin with activists walking alongside the U.T. campus with real, loaded guns, and will be “an epic event,” according to the Facebook event page posted on DontComply.com. “Now is the time to stand up, take a walk, speak out against the lies and put an end to the gun free killing zones.”

Short told the Statesman that event organizers were not seeking a permit from the city of Austin or the university for the event. Nothing like heavily armed activists to make everyone feel safe.

Asked by the Statesman whether his open-carry demonstration and self-described “crisis performance” at U.T. Austin might be in bad taste following the killings in San Bernardino, Short responded: “Not at all. People were able to be murdered because no one was armed.” (That’s an argument currently being promoted on the campaign trail by Donald Trump and some other conservative candidates for president.)

“An armed society is a polite society,” he continued. “We love freedom and we’re trying to make more freedom.”