Kaitlin Bennett

Kaitlin Bennett ,Kent State graduate celebrates by strolling campus with her AR-10 by William Cummings (May 17, 2018) USA Today. also known as "Kent State Gun Girl", is a conservative, LINOLibertarian In Name Only,, nationalist, and supposedly pants-pooping "gun rights" nut-job, who gained notoriety in 2018 with several pro-gun tweets and the constant belittling of Parkland school shooting survivor and gun control activist , mainly on her Twitter account.Kaitlen Bennett on Twitter
Bennett was born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio, in a staunchly pro-Republican household.The story behind the viral photo of a Kent State graduate posing with her cap — and a rifle by Marwa Eltagouri (May 17, 2018) Washington Post. She majored in biology at Kent State, where she was in the year of 2018. In addition to her studies, Bennett was also a self-described conservative/right-libertarian activist on the campus.
In 2017, she was the president of the Kent State's chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA),Kent State students dress up as babies, claiming that 'safe spaces are for children' by Alex Kuang (October 25, 2017) The Daily Pennsylvanian. when the chapter protested against "safe spaces" in an unintentionally humorous and embarrassing manner: by wearing diapers. This event later became relentlessly mocked on social media, especially on Twitter and Reddit, as performatively "wearing diapers to own the libs." The ensuing drama resulted in the Kent State chapter of TPUSA getting disbanded, as well as Bennett's resignation from the organization. She posted a goodbye letter in an Internet blogpost, in which she denounced the organization as a "shithole", in a rather lame attempt at covering up her affiliation with the organization.I'm Turning Point USA's Top Activist in the Country, & I Quit this Shitty Organization by Kaitlin Bennett (February 12, 2018) Liberty Hangout. She now spends her days working with Liberty Hangout,Meet The Team Liberty Hangout. founded by her then-boyfriend Justin Moldow whom she married in March 2020,Yes, Kent State Gun Girl Kaitlin Bennett Is a Married Woman by Pippa Raga (April 7, 2020) Distractify. her YouTube channel that seeks to promote fiscally-conservative pseudo-economics,About Us Liberty Hangout. and parroting Infowars.Infowars search Liberty Hangout (archived from February 11, 2020).
==Viral story==
That being said, Bennett's real claim to prominence came in May 2018, when she picketed the graduation ceremony while holding a largely defensive weapon of AR-10 rifle on the campus of Kent State University- where four students were killed by the Ohio National Guard 48 years prior to that day.
Her own statement on the Kent State shootings:
Needless to say, this bold statement later earned her a guest appearance on Fox & Friends.Kent State graduate poses with rifle on campus May 17, 2018 Fox & Friends
She has a very libertarian view on gun rights:
However, between defending gun rights, she has also attacked David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland shooting:
Later, she challenged David Hogg to an arm-wrestling match:
When Hogg didn't respond, she referred to him as "twig arms".The Kent State Girl without her guns - Impaulsive ep. 41 at 35:36: "...he called me a racist... I would never just go after him for no reason and I don't think just because he was in a school shooting puts up a special shield to where we aren't allowed to criticize his ideas..."
When Hogg was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, she disapproved of it on Twitter:
In July 2018, she also visited New York City, but didn't seem to like it, not just for its gun control laws:
In January 2019, she voiced no sympathy for unpaid non-essential government workers during the government shutdown. She can apparently rail against taxation and also talk about "real" jobs in the same breath, as working and being taxed for work is usually a very obvious indicator it's a real job.
==Liberty Hangout==
Bennett is commonly associated with Liberty Hangout. It describes itself as a "libertarian media outlet" which promotes the messages of peace, prosperity, and property rights." Despite this assertion of self-description, Liberty Hangout has made many statements which are quite frankly contradictory. These statements are frequently criticized for their authoritarian and bigoted nature. Liberty Hangout has also frequently retweeted and pinned hatred from other people like Donald Trump and Jon Miller.
===Support for monarchism and feudalism===
 
So, the only way to prevent Democrats from having permanent control is to give Republicans permanent control?
 
===Opposing libertarians while calling herself libertarian===
 
===Racism and xenophobia===
Bennett once even liked a white supremacist Facebook post calling for the genocide of minority groups, as pointed out by journalist Caleb Ecarma.Twitter
===Holocaust denial===
===Homophobia===
===Internalized misogyny===
===Conspiratorial wingnuttery===
===Other weird stuff===
==External links==
*Bennett's Twitter account
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