Come And Take It: Woman Graduates College With A Rifle Slung Around Her Shoulder
With scores of college graduations occurring this month, one woman decided to make her views known on the issue of gun control. She casually carried her AR-10 rifle on campus. Kaitlin Bennett graduated from Kent State University in Ohio. Students and faculty are barred from carrying deadly weapons, though guests are permitted to open carry if they wish. They just can’t enter any of the school’s buildings. She was taking a stand for her rights, for the Second Amendment, and to protest the university’s stance on carry rights. And yes, she took a lot of heat for the photo. Death threats and graphic language were hurled her way, but Bennett calmly noted that these clowns were only reinforcing her view about Second Amendment rights. Yes, it’s meant to protect us from a foreign invading force and more applicably from a usurpatory government, but its immediate use is most definitely centered on home and personal defense (via Kansas City Star):
Kaitlin Bennett didn't like the rules that kept her from carrying a gun on campus.
So the day after she received her bachelor's degree in biology from Kent State University on Saturday - no longer bound by those rules - she put on a summery white dress, flung an AR-10 rifle over her back and posed for photos around campus.
She accessorized with her mortar board, decorated with a picture of a rifle and the words, "Come and Take It."
She shared the photo with the world on Twitter, where it has fired up heated debate about guns on campus and been retweeted nearly 2,000 times.
"It's a bad ass photo," she told NBC4 in Columbus.
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Kent State prohibits the possession, storage or use of a "deadly weapon" - which includes firearms - by students, faculty and staff, according to its policy on the Kent State website. But visitors may openly carry a gun on campus since it's considered public state property.
Now, she has made some controversial remarks, specifically how the infamous 1970 Kent State shootings wouldn’t have occurred if the students had been armed when confronted by National Guard units; the students at the time were protesting the Vietnam War, as we had invaded Cambodia. Many saw this as an expansion of the conflict.
Whatever the case, Bennett’s views are well known on this matter.
“Come and take it” seems to be her motto at graduation--and she has no regrets of apologies for her gun rights advocacy. It’s just a friendly reminder that not everyone who graduates this year is a hard-core lefty. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/05/17/come-and-take-it-girl-graduates-college-with-a-rifle-slung-around-her-shoulder-n2481728
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I wonder if all conservative gun nuts are so utterly clueless about historical events or is she unique in that regard? Some of the soldiers said that they started shooting because they (erroneously) thought they were being shot at.
Children with guns facing unarmed children in a high stress situation. What's the worst that could happen?
Fake News. This is propaganda being peddled by the NRA.
Too bad she wasn't wandering around armed on that campus 48 years ago.
The little princess would have been hiding and handing the weapon to anyone dumb enough to hold it.
It sounds better than NRA sperm bank.
Why is it that people that are not students there can carry on campus? It seems to me that all weapons should be stopped from being there, not just by students. They are just inviting crap like this.
As far as her saying that she won't be robbed because people know there are guns in the house, I have to laugh. All one has to do is wait for them to leave and they know they can find guns there to steal. I know a guy right now that keeps his guns in a spare bedroom. Not one of them is under lock and key.
Easy pickings.
It is rather stupid to advertise you have guns in the house.
riiiiggghhhtttt......
they don't come to your house when you're there....duh.....
Pretty sad that in todays world she couldn't even feel safe enough to graduate without being armed. But then again, today there is yet another school shooting.
Was that person carrying a weapon? Did they have a cute little hat with something inflammatory on it? If the little princess was on that shooting site do you think she would have taken an offensive position? I don't.
Just remember, people like this are considered to be right wing conservative patriotic heros....right up to the point when they walk into a school and kill a dozen kids. THEN, at that moment they are suddenly transformed into mentally ill liberals. So weird how that works. /sarc
I just hope she doesn't break a nail when she cleans that rifle. She may want to be careful with that dress, too, she might get gun oil all over it.
She should just go enlist and put on a uniform and she won't have to worry about all that.
So just expressing her constitutional rights offends you?
It could be worse she could be one of them snowflake leftist that take a gun and shoot people with it because they didn't get a trophy.
It's called DEFENDING your Constitutional rights. Seems obvious.
Did I say it offended me?
I just don't want Lil' Petunia to break a nail, but if she insists on toting that gun around, she should make good use of her "skills".
She should head down to that Texas high school where the shooting took place. Maybe there is still time to be a good girl with a gun.
Curious as to why she is carrying an AR-10 in shoulder breaking .308 set up as a sniper rifle rather than a more conventionally set up (and lighter) AR-15 in the much less punishing .223? Do you suppose she's compensating for something? Wonder if she's even shot it. Wonder if it's even hers? Wonder how many paparazzi were hired by her handlers to follow her around for this stunt? Wonder why Kent has such stupid rules that allow a non-student/teacher to carry on campus?
I was only asking questions, not making assumptions. It's just that this article smells fishy.
I know few females who are trained to handle the kick of a .308 without flinching.
Do you suppose the TV interviews were set up before or after the stunt?
Can't carry at the NRA convention or near trump or a whole hell of a lot of other places where such behavior can be considered a reasonable threat,
If i was the NRA and my whole existence was to promote gun rights I would ONLY have my conventions at a place where all members could carry. I think the actual NRA is more talk than show and are actually afraid of allowing all its members to carry at their convention and simply use the venue rules as an excuse.
Would there be an open bar as well?
off topic [ph]
Of course not, I could not call my NRA a true patriotic club if I wasn't fleecing my members with $6 beers and $10 shots. I have to make a profit, right.
Or maybe she can take her gun and cut it in half because some deranged individual decided to shoot his classmates because he got his feelings hurt?
Hey maybe we can give him a pat on the shoulder and a hug and turn him loose so he can do it again?
One thing's for sure, that is a pretty nice upper and lower .....
Yep! First thing we've agreed on in a while. Do you suppose that the upper is "aftermarket"?
That young? Doubtful, but one never knows.
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I was talking about the gun this time.
I know
The only thing better than a little black dress is a little white dress.
Americans who support liberty support this wonderful patriot
there are things I agree with you on
I wonder if she will make a trip to that Texas high school and carry her rifle around?
She got beat to it another yaa hoo was at the active crime scene with his open carry and MAGA hat.
So, this idiot thought the right thing to do after all these school shootings is wander onto campus with an AR-10. Color me unsurprised that the worst type of people are supporting her in this.