Posted on 04/23/2018 4:33:59 PM PDT by Simon Green
Kyle Kashuv is a Parkland student who, just like Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg, was at Douglas High School the day Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 of his classmates. Unlike Gonzalez and Hogg and many other Douglas survivors, Kashuv has been a lone, persistent student voice in favor of gun rights and the Second Amendment.
Despite his support for the right to keep and bear arms, Kashuv didn’t own a firearm and had never fired one. That changed over the weekend when he went to a range with his father. He tweeted stills and video of the range session.
As night follows day, he was attacked on line for daring to fire an AR in a safe and controlled manner. Kashuv no doubt expected the reaction and shrugged it off.
But today, as the Daily Wire reports, when he returned to class, he was informed by Douglas High’s principal that his range tweets had traumatized some of his fellow students. And the reaction didn’t end there.
Kashuv was later pulled out of class and interrogated by two school resource officers, Broward County deputies.
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.
Kashuv has criticized the Broward County Sheriff and his band of incompetent men on Face the Nation for their lack of action regarding Cruz leading up to the Parkland shooting and the school resource officer’s cowardly behavior during the shooting. Observers seeing the Broward deputies’ interrogation of Kashuv today might conclude that sweating him was simply retaliation for his nationally broadcast statements, but we couldn’t possibly comment.
If only any of Sheriff Scott Israel’s disinterested deputies had spent half as much time investigating Nikolas Cruz’s extra-curricular activities, a student with a long and demonstrated history of violence and criminal behavior on the Douglas High campus. Who knows how many lives might have been saved?
Agreed it would be hard for a kid to come up with that plan of action on his own. But I think conservative parents with conservative kids need to start teaching their kids what to do in response to overweening administrators and law enforcement in schools when those resources act in an unlawful manner. Namely, to tell them to shove it and sue their asses up one wall and down the other if they don’t back off.
Never say never. Events my boy, events. Sooner or later, a critical mass of people will reach some kind of self awareness. Everybody will catch on sooner or later, everyone gets to play by the new rules. What are the new rules? We use Leftist rules against Leftists. What are Leftist rules? There no rules!
Now, they aren’t going to like that very much. It’s been 100 years give or take too, so there will be some adjustments. There is no other way. Not arguing that I like this, but, it is predictable as the sun rising in the morning. The real question is what leads people to think they can do these things with impunity forever?
And that’s the crux of the matter. They don’t believe any rules apply to them, because they approach everything from a sociopathic viewpoint. And given the almost complete lack of pushback, it’s sort of easy to see why they have become enamored with the idea of anything goes. It’s worked really really well for them.
Thanks Simon Green. IOW, it's clear and obvious from which side of the political divide comes the bullying that led to the Parkland shootings.
Good idea!
Yes, it was intimidation. Plain and simple.
I, for one, would not want to try to sue my way up through the Florida courts from Broward. I wonder, though, if any common Soviet people tried to sue the KGB.
...or tried to sue the Kremlin for the behavior of KGB agents, for that matter.
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