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jpak

(41,758 posts) Sun Sep 30, 2018, 10:38 AM Sep 2018

Four arrested at Kent State University open-carry gun walk after tense standoff between gun activist

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/09/kent_state_university_gun_walk.html

KENT, Ohio -- Gun-rights activists led by Kent State University graduate Kaitlin Bennett marched on the KSU campus Saturday afternoon, openly carrying a variety of weapons and creating a tense stand-off with angry counter-protestors.

Hundreds of police officers from all over the state were deployed to keep the peace, lining up in riot gear to physically keep the two groups apart.

No serious injuries were reported, according to the university, although one man seemed to be knocked unconscious and a protestor had an abrasion on his forehead.

There were four arrests. All were charged with disorderly conduct, with one additionally charged with assault on a police officer.

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Four arrested at Kent State University open-carry gun walk after tense standoff between gun activist (Original Post) jpak Sep 2018 OP

At Kent State, of all places. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2018 #1

Tomi Laraham wanna be trolling. irisblue Sep 2018 #2

Open-carry walk sparks turmoil struggle4progress Sep 2018 #3

Rally at Kent State Saturday struggle4progress Sep 2018 #4

Rally tense, but mostly peaceful struggle4progress Sep 2018 #5

Kudos to those protesters Downtown Hound Sep 2018 #6

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,774 posts)

1. At Kent State, of all places.

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Sun Sep 30, 2018, 10:40 AM

Sep 2018

irisblue

(33,001 posts)

2. Tomi Laraham wanna be trolling.

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Sun Sep 30, 2018, 10:46 AM

Sep 2018

from the article
snip..."Marchers were campaigning for conceal carry on Kent State's campus. Kent State currently does not allow students and faculty to carry weapons. It does allow visitors to open carry. Bennett originally planned to hold a rally with a lineup of speakers."

struggle4progress

(118,313 posts)

3. Open-carry walk sparks turmoil

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Sun Sep 30, 2018, 10:50 AM

Sep 2018

By Emily Bamforth and David Petkiewicz
Posted September 29, 2018 at 08:35 PM
Updated September 29, 2018 at 08:36 PM

... Counter-protestors significantly outnumbered her group of gun-rights activists ...

The two sides screamed insults at each other as police stood as a wall between them, gradually prompting the gun-rights activists to return to a parking lot across the street.

The flood of counter-protestors led to the gun-rights group marching for less than 30 minutes, spending the rest of the time surrounded by police ...

https://www.cleveland.com/expo/news/erry-2018/09/26687d568c6139/kent-state-university-opencarr.html

struggle4progress

(118,313 posts)

4. Rally at Kent State Saturday

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Sun Sep 30, 2018, 10:56 AM

Sep 2018

Amanda VanAllen
11:40 PM, Sep 29, 2018

... Bennett's pro-gun friends of about a hundred were met with triple or even quadruple that number of counter-protestors ...

Despite Bennet saying her principal mission for the march was to demand guns be allowed on campus, the University says she's never actually asked them.

"It's important to note that at no time, has Ms. Bennett while she was a student here or since or any student group, ever petitioned the University formally asking us to change our policy," said Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Shay Little.

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-portage/pro-gun-protestors-held-a-3-hour-rally-at-kent-state-saturday-anti-protestors-came-to-fight-back

struggle4progress

(118,313 posts)

5. Rally tense, but mostly peaceful

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Sun Sep 30, 2018, 10:59 AM

Sep 2018

By Amanda Garrett
Beacon Journal/Ohio.com
Posted Sep 29, 2018 at 2:39 PM
Updated at 9:47 AM

... Bennett last week told a Beacon Journal reporter that ... If students and protesters would have had firearms, the shootings would have never happened, she said.

Alan Canfora, one of the nine shot in 1970, said Bennett has it backward.

“The primary lesson of the 1970 Kent State tragedy is nonviolent conflict resolution should be maximized to prevent bloodshed,” he said.

“It’s outrageous for her to mention the Kent State massacre,” Canfora said, “while she now seems to advocate armed confrontations on campuses — especially at Kent State where tragedy resulted from gun violence now opposed by the vast majority of citizens” ...

https://www.ohio.com/news/20180929/kent-state-gun-rally-tense-but-mostly-peaceful

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)

6. Kudos to those protesters

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Sun Sep 30, 2018, 11:02 AM

Sep 2018

What they did took courage.

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