Student upset with topic discussed, gun to serve as protection
A University of Arizona student was arrested last Wednesday after admitting that he brought a gun to campus.
Officers confronted Brenton House, 29, a creative writing graduate student and poetry center employee, after an individual in the class told officers that House carried a 9-mm pistol into a poetry class.
House was upset with the topic discussed, a student-written piece made fun of presidential candidate George W. Bush and "rednecks," during the class two weeks earlier.
He then went to the class on Oct. 4 with a Confederate flag draped around his waist and carried a gun in protest, UAPD reports stated.
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