Kaitlin Bennett, a woman who recently graduated from Kent State University has boldly attacked her school’s anti-gun policies in a photo shoot where she carried an AR-10 and wore a cap that said, “Come and take it.”
The 22-year-old Bennett, from Zanesville, Ohio and founder of Liberty Hangout at Kent State, a student media outlet that promotes libertarian values, posed in front of the Kent Student Center for the tweet that has gone viral.
“Now that I graduated from @KentState, I can finally arm myself on campus. I should have been able to do so as a student especially since four unarmed students were shot and killed by the government on this campus. #CampusCarryNow,” she posted on Twitter.
“I wanted to draw attention to the gun policies on campus that allow guests to open carry, but not students,” she said.
“I find it insulting that the school values the lives of their guests more than those attending the university for four years.”
The university has a rule against students, faculty, and staff carrying “deadly weapons.”
But Kent State University spokesman Eric Mansfield told Fox News that because Bennett is no longer a student, she violated no policies.
“After graduation, she joined the ranks of our proud graduates,” Mansfield said. “So at the time of this photo, she and other graduates would be permitted to open carry on our campus.”
Bennett, on the other hand told Fox News she wanted to condemn the school’s “insulting” policies.
Mansfield noted that the university has a full-time, certified police force of more than 30 sworn officers who protect the campus and the university was recently ranked the safest big college campus in Ohio and the 25th safest in the country, according to National Council for Home Safety and Security.
Bennett said even though she’s received death threats because of her post, she has no regrets.
“I have no apologies for my graduation photos,” she tweeted Tuesday. “As a woman, I refuse to be a victim and the second amendment ensures that I don’t have to be.”
In another tweet, she made it clear that her gun is an AR-10 and not an “assault rifle” as many had claimed.
“Don’t talk about gun control,” Bennett wrote, “when you can’t even get your facts straight.”
