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Graduation Gun Girl Issues Challenge to David Hogg for the Fate of the 2nd Amendment

By Joe Saunders June 5, 2018 at 12:03pm

Now, this a battle for the right to bear arms – with bare arms.

When Kent State graduate Kaitlin Bennett first burst into the national eye in May, she was posing on the college campus, attired in a white dress accessorized with an AR-10 rifle slung over her back.

On her graduation cap was the outline of a rifle and the defiant challenge: “Come and take it.”

https://twitter.com/BarstoolKSU/status/995952168992731136

Now, Bennett is issuing a different challenge – to 18-year-old anti-gun celebrity David Hogg, the youngster who rode the February mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida into liberal media stardom.

“I have a challenge for you @davidhogg111,” Bennett wrote in a Twitter post on Sunday. “Let’s arm wrestle. If I win, we get to keep the 2nd amendment. If you win, we turn in our guns. Deal?”

I have a challenge for you @davidhogg111. Let's arm wrestle. If I win, we get to keep the 2nd amendment. If you win, we turn in our guns. Deal?

— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) June 3, 2018

She followed that up with another tweet that showed the notably unmuscular Hogg in short sleeves, and made a confident prediction of victory.

It's alright guys, the 2nd amendment is safe pic.twitter.com/w2cHHCtLQH

— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) June 3, 2018

Would you like to see this arm-wrestling match take place?

“It’s alright, guys, the 2^nd amendment is safe.”

As director of digital content for the libertarian website Liberty Hangout (“Promoting Peace, Prosperity and Property Rights Since 2015”), 22-year-old Bennett obviously has a pretty good sense of what’s going to attract attention on social media. (An attractive woman with a gun is usually a good start.)

And while her post hadn’t gotten any apparent response from Hogg as of Tuesday afternoon, it got plenty of reaction from the gun rights supporters Hogg has deliberately antagonized since his unlikely rise to celebrity began.

It’s safe to say most thought Bennett would win the contest – hands down.

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Not everyone was laughing, though. A few Second Amendment supporters thought even joking about the constitutional rights of American citizens was a bad idea — and there’s definitely a point to that.

But at a time when liberals are so smugly self-satisfied that they have no problem raising up a child to a position of leadership in one of their pet causes — and giving him the power to try to bully everyone from supermarket chains to conservative TV hosts — a jibe like Bennett’s comes across as an “emperor has no clothes” moment.

Is the liberal half of the country really following this kid?

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Culture, Guns, Liberal media, Mass shooting, Second Amendment

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Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro desk editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He's been with Liftable Media since 2015.

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Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He's been with Liftable Media since 2015. Largely a product of Catholic schools, who discovered Ayn Rand in college, Joe is a lifelong newspaperman who learned enough about the trade to be skeptical of every word ever written. He was also lucky enough to have a job that didn't need a printing press to do it.

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