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An American pro-gun activist has clashed with an Australian on the streets of New York over his support for basic gun control laws.
Kaitlin Bennett, 27, was interviewing people for her right-wing site Liberty Hangout in the clip shared to TikTok this week that has reached more than a million views.
Bennett made headlines in 2018 when she turned up at Kent State University in Ohio a day after her graduation with an Armalite AR-10 semi-automatic rifle strapped to her back.
The then 22-year-old posed for photos holding a graduation cap emblazoned with the words ‘come and take it’ which she said was in protest of the university’s policy that prohibited students and staff carrying ‘lethal weapons’ on campus.
In the clip, which was filmed in 2019 but has gone viral again, Bennett asks the Australian man, who appeared to be with a group about to attend a show in Times Square, whether ‘You guys have the right to bear arms there?’.
Kaitlin Bennett was interviewing people for her right-wing site Liberty Hangout when she spoke to the Australian in a clip that has gone viral again this week
Bennett made headlines in 2018 when she protested Kent State University’s gun policies by turning up with a rifle strapped to her back
The 27-year-old is a vocal supporter of conservative politicians such as Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis
The man replies: ‘Yes… but under license so they don’t fall into the hands of nut cases and you have all those high school massacres ‘.
‘So you have gun control? That’s terrible, I don’t want to live there,’ Bennett tells the man.
Bennett regularly appears on social media brandishing various guns and declaring her support for hard-right politicians such as Donald Trump and Florida governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis.
Bennett asks the man if he considered gun control a good thing.
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‘Absolutely!’ the man replies.
Bennett argued: ‘Why does my right to self defence need to be controlled? Why do I need a license to protect myself from a nutcase?’
The man replies: ‘Because it stops guns falling into the wrong hands. There is a strict screening process.’
Bennett then argued that she has a right to self defence and to protect her property and asked if the government should ‘have their hands in my self-defence’.
‘Are you happy for innocent people to be killed because the evidence shows that’s what happens? The proof is in the pudding,’ the man replied.
Australia’s gun laws changed in 1996, spearheaded by former Prime Minister John Howard following the Port Arthur massacre, and since then the country, in stark contrast to the United States, has seen almost no mass shootings.
Kaitlin Bennett regularly posts pictures of herself posing with various firearms
The man then tells Bennett he has a concert to go to and walks away with his group.
‘Don’t ever become citizens, guys,’ Bennett yells.
Commenters on the clip seemed to take the Australian man’s side in the debate.
‘Guns laws stop the need for so much self defence… is she that naïve?’ one person said.
‘He wiped the floor with her and she still thinks she’s right.’ another said.
‘Typical, assuming everyone wants to be American.’ added a third.
Source: | This article originally belongs to Dailymail.co.uk
