The conservative student group was trying to make a point but the administration wasn’t buying it.

FOX News reports.

College conservatives’ ‘murder-free zone’ a no-go on Oregon campus

It was supposed to be a stunt to point out the silliness of banning unwanted activity by decree, but a college conservative group in Oregon was stunned at the reason school officials killed their proposed “murder free zone.”

Portland State University’s College Republicans chapter sought permission to set up a table on campus to generate support for the idea, but school officials said their effort could promote violence against them. Now the group and First Amendment advocates say it is school officials who need to study up – on the Constitution.

“In the murder-free zone we were looking to create, nobody will be killed with guns, knives, sticks, or anything of the sort,” said Christian Bripschgi, political director of Oregon’s College Republican Federation chapter.

Bripschgi, who wrote about his effort in a column for The College Fix, figured getting permission to set up the table would be “as easy as renting a library book.” The idea was to advance a “murder-free zone” as a logical extension of the “gun free zones” on campus and in buildings across the Portland area.

“Our advisor signed off on our proposal quickly at first but became skeptical after she saw the nature of the content,” Bripschgi said.

Upon further review, Bripschgi said, school officials determined the proposal could be “libelous,” “triggering” and cause people to attack them.

Portland State officials did not respond to numerous requests for comment.