Photo: Kaitlin Marie/ Twitter CBS NEWS — A recent college graduate from Kent State University in Ohio is gaining attention online for graduation photos she posted on Twitter. Kaitlin Bennett shared photos of herself wearing an AR-10 rifle strapped to her back and her graduation cap in hand. A picture of a gun and the words "come and take it" decorated the graduation cap. "Now that I graduated from Kent State, I can finally arm myself on campus," Bennett wrote in the post. "I should have been able to do so as a student – especially since 4 unarmed students were shot and killed by the government on this campus." Bennett is referring to the killing of four people on Kent State’s campus in 1970. After days of unrest over America’s invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, student protesters clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen. The guardsmen opened fire, killing four students and wounding nine others. Bennett tweeted several images from a photo shoot that she took to mark graduation. In the photos, she poses around Kent State University’s campus wearing a white dress and and a gun holster around her body. She explained in one tweet that the gun is an AR-10 and it "fires at the same rate as any modern pistol," not an assault rifle. It is a tradition at many colleges for students to decorate their graduation caps with clever sayings and personal messages. The message Bennett chose: "Come and take it," referring to her […]

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A Kent State graduate wore a gun holster around her body and a picture of a gun on her graduation cap in viral photos A recent college graduate from Kent State University in Ohio is gaining attention online for graduation photos she posted on Twitter. Kaitlin Bennett shared photos of herself wearing an AR-10 rifle strapped to her back and her graduation cap in hand. A picture of a gun and the words "come and take it" decorated the graduation cap. "Now that I graduated from Kent State, I can finally arm myself on campus," Bennett wrote in the post. "I should have been able to do so as a student – especially since 4 unarmed students were shot and killed by the government on this campus." Bennett is referring to the killing of four people on Kent State’s campus in 1970. After days of unrest over America’s invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, student protesters clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen. The guardsmen opened fire, killing four students and wounding nine others. Bennett tweeted several images from a photo shoot that she took to mark graduation. In the photos, she poses around Kent State University’s campus wearing a white dress and and a gun holster around her body. She explained in one tweet that the gun is an AR-10 and it "fires at the same rate as any modern pistol," not an assault rifle. It is a tradition at many colleges for students to decorate their graduation caps […]

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