More rampant "political correctness"

ClayCalhoun.com reports:

LAS CRUCES - Pistol Pete, the gun-toting mascot for New Mexico State University, may have a battle on his hands to keep his job.

Talks are under way about whether the time has come to retire the mascot, who has donned his huge cowboy hat at Aggie games and other events for 40 years.

NMSU President Michael Martin said no one has decided that Pete needs to go, but it's at least time for a makeover.

The current Pete costume is decades-old and scares children, Martin said.

Because the mere sight of a not-gun prop gun carried by a cartoonish mascot is too traumatic for the faint of heart, I daresay.