The story behind the viral photo of a Kent State graduate posing with her cap — and a rifle

If Kaitlin Bennett had been allowed to carry a gun at Kent State University while a student, she wouldn’t have carried an AR-10 rifle. She would have carried her handgun instead. But the 22-year-old said she chose to pose with the rifle for her graduation photos Sunday because it made for a stronger symbol: That, as a non-student, she could at last arm herself on the northeast Ohio campus. To Bennett, the photo was the culmination of her years as a conservative student activist, during which she advocated

Source: Kent State graduate Kaitlin Bennett: Why she posed with her AR-10 for a photo – The Washington Post

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