Category: Safety
Ground Rules
1. We are nonviolent; nonviolence applies to action, philosophy, words, ideas
2. We are inclusive, and welcome people of all shapes, COLORS, IDENTITIES
3. we are irreverent, but never mean. WHEN IN DOUBT, think: “belligerently nice”
4. We never body shame
5. we never minimize or dismiss real experiences
6. when possible, we pass the mic to representative communities
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Redefining Safety
Cocks Not Glocks is an organization dedicated to harnessing the compassionate and creative energy of young people across America to change the face of safety.
For too many generations, Americans have equated guns with safety. Everyone is scared, we get it. But we refuse to accept guns as the cure to society’s ills. We believe that humor is fear’s worst foe, and that fear and division are the greatest drivers of violence. Although we began as an anti-campus carry movement, we are not necessarily anti-gun. Our activism serves to fight fear, and to put an unavoidable spotlight on the absurd political and cultural barriers to progress.…