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Is This Parkland Student, Not a Gun Control Activist, Under Threat?

- April 26, 2018

As you know, RedState has an editorial hold on “The Parkland Kids” stories, explained here. This article is consistent with that guideline.

Most RedState readers are familiar with a recent “boycott” of Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show and its sponsors. It involved students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, where a murderer went on a shooting rampage as police stood around outside waiting for him to finish before they acted like police.

Also, having read Caleb’s post about the group of students who became involved in gun activism following the incident, you are also no doubt familiar with the names and faces of the kids who have been at the forefront of media coverage. The ones about whom we are, in general terms, avoiding writing editorial content.

This is an article about a school. It’s about the officers involved. And it’s about a teacher who gets a pass.

Those students mentioned above have received most of the media’s attention to date. But there are other students, a lot of them, who were also victims and traumatized, with their own opinions about issues who are less famous. A small group of these “other” kids from the same school, with that same personal connection to the shooting are specifically supporting the Second Amendment in public.

One of those “other” students is Kyle Kashuv, who has achieved a small amount of notoriety and attention specifically on the right and in conservative media.

Kashuv has faced an equal amount of backlash and vilification for his genuine point of view, despite being a victim, from the left wing who have cried foul on every criticism of the “The Parkland Kids”, ie. the gun control activists. He has handled that negative “feedback” very well.

Unlike RedState, which has been refraining from the fights among and about students from the school, it seems even a teacher from the school itself has no such reservations about kids who were victims. In this case, it appears Kashuv, having been victimized a second time by Parkland police officers, was fair game for criticism.

Last week, Kashuv visited a commercial, indoor gun range with his father, and that’s where this latest problem began.

At first, it was just a kid sharing on Twitter his experience…

Naturally he added some commentary, as one does.

Seems fine, right?

But then things went, as they say, sideways. Via Daily Wire:

Kashuv was quickly called out for visiting a gun range and posting about it by a variety of other students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. But that wasn’t the end of the story. When Kyle went to school today, his principal informed him that other students had been upset by his posts, but that he hadn’t done anything wrong. But according to Kyle, in the middle of the morning, events took a different turn

The article then includes the following excerpt, sent to the Daily Wire from Kashuv:

Near the end of third period, my teacher got a call from the office saying I need to go down and see a Mr. Greenleaf. I didn’t know Mr. Greenleaf, but it turned out that he was an armed school resource officer. I went down and found him, and he escorted me to his office. Then a second security officer walked in and sat behind me. Both began questioning me intensely. First, they began berating my tweet, although neither of them had read it; then they began aggressively asking questions about who I went to the range with, whose gun we used, about my father, etc. They were incredibly condescending and rude.

Then a third officer from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office walked in, and began asking me the same questions again. At that point, I asked whether I could record the interview. They said no. I asked if I had done anything wrong. Again, they answered no. I asked why I was there. One said, “Don’t get snappy with me, do you not remember what happened here a few months ago?”

They continued to question me aggressively, though they could cite nothing I had done wrong. They kept calling me “the pro-Second Amendment kid.” I was shocked and honestly, scared. It definitely felt like they were attempting to intimidate me.

I was treated like a criminal for no reason other than having gone to the gun range and posted on social media about it.

As so often happens in the age of social media, this thing took a bizarre twist. Montel Williams got wind of the story:

Now there was real attention on the subject. And then a teacher from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School got involved:

Here is a screenshot of the teacher’s Twitter bio and reply to Montel.

So Kashuv responded to the teacher.

This is when the teacher replied to the kid from his school who was the victim, like all the other students, of a terrible ordeal:

“Stupid.” Imagine him saying that to some of the other, differently-minded students. Remember above when we reminisced about what happened to Laura Ingraham?

Here are two Twitter reactions that pretty much say it all:

This is a story about a teacher, a school, a double standard, and the officers from an irresponsible sheriff’s office that can’t seem to stop screwing up. You’ve just read it.

Now that we’ve covered these things, watch on Twitter as the same lefties who have failed to be outraged by that teacher will instead be outraged at me, claiming that RedState is attacking Parkland students. We aren’t, but that’s how bad the deflection is when it comes to guns. They will attack us for writing about the guy attacking one of the students, BECAUSE, not despite but BECAUSE we’ve had the decency to stand aside from the media frenzy over the Parkland kids.

And they will ignore this incident. They shouldn’t, because it’s not trivial. The same school system that relentlessly avoided intervening to prevent a shooting is now hazing a kid who visited a shooting range with his father.

This is intimidation, which is what they would call it (and did) if Laura Ingraham said something like this. And she’s just a TV host. This is an institutional attempt to silence a young man who has committed the heresy of daring to think critically and form his own opinions in the face of the orthodoxy.

This is how fascism begins.

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