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^ Shugerman, Emily (February 26, 2018).On April 6, 2022, she announced the birth of their first child on Twitter. She announced her conversion to Christianity on the site, and the couple later married in a March 2020 Catholic ceremony. Personal lifeīennett became engaged in 2019 to Justin Moldow, the founder of Liberty Hangout. The tweet and the anti-Semitic responses from followers had long been deleted. Ĭriticism continued in 2020 when it was revealed that the website associated with Bennet, Liberty Hangout, made comments in 2016 denying the Holocaust on Twitter. Later in October, Bennett was similarly ridiculed when visiting the University of Central Florida. Drinks and other objects, including toilet paper, were hurled at her. Chants of "where's your diaper?" and "shit your pants” were heard in reference to an unsubstantiated rumor that she defecated in her pants while attending a Kent State fraternity party while in school. In February 2020, Bennett went to Ohio University to ask trivia questions for President's Day, but was confronted by a large crowd of college students opposing her.
One student seen in the interviews used the online attention to raise money for charity. The clips quickly became popular on social media, with users entertained by the dichotomy between Bennett and the interviewees' reactions to the topic. Originally posted by Liberty Hangout with the title "College Students Have No Morals", the videos show Bennett questioning the students on the issue of resources for transgender people in bathrooms. In January 2020, clips surfaced online of her 2019 interviews with University of Kentucky students. She returned to the university in November of that year to host a discussion on gun rights. Due to her affiliation with the extremist site, she was excluded from a campaign event for Bernie Sanders. Following her initial protest of Kent State, Bennett became a correspondent for InfoWars, the far-right conspiracy and fake news internet site. The university released a statement that a cease and desist order had been issued against advertising the event, as Bennett had not attempted to register it with the university. Later in 2018, Bennett organized an open-carry rally at the college. As social media users mainly associated Bennett with her gun rights activism, many media publications referenced her "Gun Girl" nickname. She stated that as a student at Kent State, she should have been able to open-carry for self-defense, citing the 1970 Kent State shootings where Ohio National Guardsmen fired on unarmed students protesting the U.S. In 2018, Bennett posed for her graduation photo from the university holding an AR-10 long gun in front of the university sign. In May 2018, Bennett graduated with a degree in biology from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Initially described as a libertarian media outlet, the website later became more politically conservative.īennett was the president of the Kent State chapter of Turning Point USA however, after a protest against campus safe spaces backfired in October 2017, she resigned. She received media attention in 2018 for open-carrying an AR-10 rifle at Kent State University after graduating.īennett and her husband run Liberty Hangout. Kaitlin Marie Bennett (born October 15, 1995), also known as the Kent State Gun Girl, is an American gun rights activist and conservative social media personality.
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