Kyle Kashuv, a Parkland survivor and Turning Point USA director, recounts hiding during the shooting while media sensationalized the tragedy to push gun control. He critiques the "March for Our Lives" movement, argues armed teachers reduce crime, and cites statistics showing gun-free zones invite shooters due to slow police response times. Discussing the midterms, Kashuv predicts a Republican Senate gain driven by conservative enthusiasm, warns that disarming civilians invites tyranny like in Nazi Germany, and highlights his support for the Stop School Violence Act's $2B funding for hardening schools without firearm training. Ultimately, he asserts that existing laws need better enforcement rather than new restrictions. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, actually, in a weird way, I guess you've been sort of thrust into being wise beyond your years.
You were obviously a survivor of the Parkland shooting.
As you know, I had your classmate, Cameron Caskey, on a couple weeks ago, and he kind of laid out what happened to him that day, and subsequently everything that's happened.
So let's just start there, because that's kind of what put you on the map.
We have to put our hands on the person in front of us walking outside.
And all throughout this, the most disgusting thing was every single corner of the entire
block surrounding us was just filled with media cars.
It was just jam-packed.
And what I saw there was that whenever there was someone crying or a moment of pain, the
media would just surround them and encapsulate them.
And I got home, and I was really hoping that this wouldn't be a politicized spectacle with
mass media jumping the gun to everything.
And sadly that was the case.
So when I was like sitting there in shock, seeing the numbers rise on the screens for the death count, it was like so insane to internalize like what had just occurred.
Because like everyone's always, you know, this will never happen to my school.
How could this happen to my school?
And the sad reality is it can happen to any school.
Like, I mean, Stoneman Douglas was in the most affluent, low-crime, you know, city, I think, in like southern Florida.
Yeah, so what kind of time did you guys have to grieve?
Because that, you're already alluding to this, but it was like, it was as if the event happened, the shooting happened, and then it seemingly, there was no grieving, and then you guys were all over the television, you were all over Twitter, you had all political people using you guys in all sorts of different ways.
Just tell me a little bit about just kind of the grieving and trying to be able to be, how old are you now?
17.
You're 17, trying to be 15, 16, 17 year old kids trying to just survive something unimaginably horrible.
Yeah, I don't know how freshmen and sophomores have managed to go through this.
I was a junior at the time, so I knew the school a little bit better and somewhat of my self-esteem was built up more and a little bit more mature.
But there was absolutely no time to grieve whatsoever.
A few days after the shooting, they already bussed us up to Tallahassee to tug on the emotional heartstrings of Republicans to pass legislation that they otherwise wouldn't have passed.
Yeah, and what were your parents saying, or the friends' parents?
It just seemed like the parents were almost gone.
Now there are some of the parents that are a little more high profile that I see, but it was as if you guys were just taken.
That's what it felt like.
Suddenly we're seeing you on CNN and town halls, and I wanna talk a little bit about that, but just like, That you were just used all over the place with not even having a moment to just digest what happened.
I think that the kids saw what happened, they were shocked as they should be, and they decided to act.
We said this can't happen to anyone else ever again.
Let's do something.
What really occurred is that the mainstream media jumped on this immediately and just put it to a national scale and really used it to push a gun control agenda.
And that's why I started speaking out, because I wanted to represent the other side of Stoneman Douglas who doesn't believe in gun control.
Because I know you sort of as a political beast now and like a wickedly incisive Twitterer and like, you know, you've put on events that I've been part of and you're incredibly organized and connecting with great people and all that stuff.
They came here, and if nothing, worked their way up.
And then when I was at home, they taught me Hebrew and English.
So we only spoke Hebrew at home, so I'm fluent in Hebrew.
And they put me through school, and I was always the shortest kid in the grade.
So I was always, like, even shorter than the shortest girl in my grade.
I was, like, super short.
In like what was it?
In like 8th grade I was 4 foot 8.
I was like legally a midget in 8th grade.
So I got bullied a lot.
Like I try not to have a victimhood mentality because I don't think it's successful and I think you agree with me on that.
So I was always bullied and I was always smart so that kind of went back on me a little bit.
But I was always bullied a lot and it built up my self-esteem.
In addition, I was always taking the hardest classes.
My parents would always push me to take the hardest classes possible.
So at Douglas, before all this, I had a good social life.
So I would basically go to school, do my AP classes, go home, play video games till like 10 p.m., start homework, and then finish it at 2 a.m., and then have five hours of sleep.
So that was my cycle.
It was terrible.
But I was super addicted to video games.
And then the shooting happens, and it just turned my entire life upside down.
So, it completely changed me.
So at that moment, you know, I had to become much more mature.
Did you have any particular political beliefs before all this?
Because you're definitely, in terms of at least the kids or the young people that are public about all of this now that have come out of Stoneman Douglas, I mean, you definitely are the one that seems, at least that I know of, is the furthest right that has sort of embraced conservatism and all that.
After the election, I kind of didn't care as much.
But I was always somewhat of a Second Amendment supporter.
Yeah, but when I started speaking out, so what's really interesting, when I started speaking out, It was like a tidal wave of opposition.
You know, I had my schools against me.
Some would seem like that.
You know, all my peers were against me.
And I try not to do a victim of the Taliban, I just want to paint the picture of how it actually was.
And it seemed like the community, the mainstream media, my friends, you know, it seemed like I was going against every single opposition.
You know, I was scared, like this could ruin my life.
But, you know, I believed in what I was doing, and I just powered through it.
I just stuck to my beliefs and didn't let anyone tell me otherwise.
When I was in Tallahassee, when they were pushing Republican legislators to enact gun control legislation, I said, look, gun control isn't going to solve the problem.
I want to solve the problem.
I want to make sure that school shootings never happen.
What can I do to actually make that happen?
And what can I do while protecting the Second Amendment?
Because I actually believe it's one of the most fundamental rights of Americans.
So while I was there, I started speaking out, and nobody cared.
I would go to reporters, and nobody cared.
So I had to forcefully talk to reporters, say, hey, look, I'm a conservative.
Can I reach out?
And then I managed to get Leland Vittert's, a contact with Leland Vittert at Fox.
And I went on Fox, and I did an interview.
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And then Ben Shapiro saw it and it blew up, but all the while... That's the first time I remember seeing it.
Well, I just want to know, what do you... Because I know you kind of mock the media the way I do now on Twitter and just sort of what mainstream media has become and that they're really activists and not journalists and that whole thing.
But were you shocked when you were going up to them and going...
You know, I'm a conservative, or I want to defend the Second Amendment, but I'm a student from this school.
And they're just blatantly ignoring you.
Or even, I know this is minor, but like, I remember when a bunch of you guys were all verified on Twitter at once.
Yeah, and I'm not saying that that, it doesn't really mean anything in and of itself, but it is a symptom of sort of the broader situation going on here with tech companies and media and all that.
Like, were they flat out ignoring you?
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Like, you saw them interviewing people and then... So, here's what occurred.
The main organizers of that, that you see like with a solid group of like the March for Alive kids, at this point they had solidified a clique and they wouldn't let anyone new or with a different opposing view into it.
So I said, I have to take matters into my own hand.
In addition, when we were in Tallahassee, I realized that the mainstream media is just doing this for cliques.
Because, can we think about it?
When mass shooting occurs, The mainstream media loves it.
They get great coverage.
They get a great amount of views.
They do.
I'll switch.
I'll talk to notoriety in addition after this, but I saw that when someone, there was a girl crying in Tallahassee.
And the second she cried, she got sworn by reporters.
And I saw that they were just looking for clicks and for headlines.
And I realized that they're not in it for the right reasons.
They're not going to listen to a rational, young kid like me, okay?
So, in addition, I also realized that there was an extreme amount of just, people were just benefiting off of this so much.
So, after the shooting, we realized that a lot of this occurred because the shooter, I try not to say his name, ever, because I think that gives into notoriety.
They would post... So here's what Time did.
So the video of the shooter where he basically says, you know, I'm gonna be the next cool shooter of 2018.
I want 20 people.
And he basically says, you're all going to see me on the news.
And then Time Magazine puts this video up on YouTube and it gets 3.6 million views.
The same thing with all the other videos.
CNN talked about this exact clip and basically just still showed it on air.
So the entire thing with the mainstream media is doing is that they're basically just benefiting off the situation.
And what they don't realize is they're perpetuating the issue and making it worse.
That's why I think Daily Wire, Ben is doing a great decision with not showing their names and faces, because it's an ethical decision.
Now, I don't think government should impose on the mainstream media to not allow them to show their faces, but I think it's an ethical and moral decision that people should be taking on.
Yeah, so just to be totally clear, so after this shooting, that was when Ben announced, he's the editor of Daily Wire, they are no longer gonna show their names or pictures.
Okay, so you started to see this issue with the media, that they're ignoring people like you and they're sort of making other people stars and they're going for the clicks and all of that.
What about, you know, I don't wanna make this about people per se, but so that little clique of kids that then was all over the media and was getting retweeted by every celebrity and all of that, were you trying to reach out to them at all and just have that discussion, or was it just very clear that that was not gonna happen?
Oh no, yeah, absolutely, and I still try to have that discussion.
You know, when they first started speaking out, I said, oh my God, that's great, someone's speaking out.
And originally, when the movement started, you remember Cameron Kasky was on the car shouting, the movement, Wasn't an anti-gun movement.
It was an anti-school shooting movement.
And I said, hey guys, this is quickly, I just, I was like, I gave him a warning, guys, it looks like you're moving to the direction of an anti-gun movement, and I don't think that's beneficial.
At all.
So here's my point of view.
I tried communicating, and I tried speaking, and they really didn't care in allowing me.
So I said, OK, I have to go solo.
And that's what I've been doing.
But I've always been open to discussion and open debate.
I think that's one of the great things of our country, where you can have open discussion and just free expression of ideas.
That's why I think the Kanye thing is somewhat great, because regardless of what you think of the person or celebrity, I'm not in favor of propping up celebrities and their political opinions simply because they're famous, but you don't need a lot of political expertise to say that I believe in free expression, free thought.
So a lot of the kids that you saw there were actually flown in on a private jet from Tallahassee.
So already at the time of the Town Hall, there was a solidified group click of the kids that you see now, and they won't let anything in.
So they actually flew these kids on a private jet from Tallahassee to the Town Hall.
And right there, it was just simply They were just, it was an anti-gun debate, and they were just villainizing Rubio and Dana Lash for things that had nothing into their control whatsoever.
It wasn't their fault.
Marco Rubio was villainized to such an extreme extent, and he's one of the best senators.
So here's the thing, I'm all for having security guards.
This entire issue is how do we best manage our funds and secure our schools?
The thing with law enforcement officers is that they cost a lot of money.
And impoverished schools already need that funding for materials.
And in addition, it does not take--
A lot of training and a lot of money to have a teacher to be armed, and this has already been proven to work.
And in addition, when you have teachers who are armed, the shooter doesn't know who it is.
If it's a law enforcement officer, you can clearly see who it is.
So if you've one school resource officer who's armed, the shooter comes and takes out the school resource officer, and then they're free to do whatever.
So here's the thing.
Simply giving teachers to have the opportunity has a massive effect, because it's up to their own will.
To do so, they have to go through training, and they have to, it's a concealed carry.
When you've engaged some of your friends and other students about these ideas, I mean, everyone watching this at this point knows that so much of what's coming out of the modern left is about feelings and all these things.
Do you have a sense that they understand that young people, at least the ones you're talking to, understand what rights are, why we should care about these things, why free speech matters, why the Second Amendment matters, and things of that nature?
Or does it all just sound good to them, and there's an intoxicating-?
The thing is, we have all the laws that we need already on the books.
The thing is, the enforcement doesn't work.
So I'll just make a tangent and I'll get back to here.
I think it is utterly hypocritical that the left hates Trump and that he's in power, but then they're saying we have to trust the government more.
So if you think the government, if you think Trump is literally Hitler, why are you giving away your right to wear brown arms to this tyrannical government?
You know, just the enforcement, the enforcement of what needs to occur.
Like the Lautenberg Amendment means, it says that domestic abusers cannot have a firearm.
That's already on the books, it just needs to be enforced.
There's the issue with, you know, the NICS background check program, where they say we need more time to To evaluate and give you back your background check in order to buy a weapon.
The issue is the government doesn't need more time, it just needs more of the records.
So the reason why the Texas solo shooting occurred was because I think it was some military branch where there was someone who were, he committed a violation and by law they should have transferred that over to the database and therefore he wouldn't have been able to buy a weapon.
But the records weren't transferred, he was able to buy a weapon and he shot up the church.
So the government just needs to get all the records and do their job.
Same thing with red flag laws.
And people like to talk about this.
This is a little bit more the trickier areas of this, but red flag laws basically say that someone can flag you, and then you get reviewed, and then you can get your gun taken away.
And a lot of people also like, so the issue with red flag gun laws is that it's all about government enforcement, and that's the issue.
And there's also the big issue where people like to talk about mental health.
and they say you mentally ill people shouldn't be able to acquire a weapon so I have talked to countless individuals about this and I should ask Peterson but I forgot to the question is how do you determine when someone is mentally ill enough and hits the threshold so they cannot have a weapon and nobody knows and in addition the thing with the shooter at my school looking Retroactively, we can say this kid was mentally insane, but I don't know if a court would adjudicate that he would actually be mentally insane by law, therefore kicking his gun away.
Yeah, so is the inherent problem here, do you think, that you cannot manage all of these things?
You can do the best you can to have some sensible laws around them.
And defend our right to bear arms and all of that, and make sure schools are taken care of, but that generally speaking, yes, there's a sort of sliding scale psychologically, but also that the people that want to do bad will find ways to do bad.
They're not the ones that are walking out and looking at a building and it says, oh, no guns here.
And schools are safer now than they were 20 years ago.
Like school shooting rates are declining.
And gun homicide rates are declining.
And homicide rates are declining.
So we are becoming a more peaceful nation.
And a lot of that has to do with having more gun owners and to having more concealed carry permit owners because those people When there's a shooting, those people are the first responders.
I think it's wrong to say that, oh, we'll just let the police arrive after the crime has been committed.
No, you need people there immediately to stop the shooter.
That's why I'm all for having teachers and armed school officers at schools to immediately take down the shooter.
Yeah, to just be part of this oddly unique time where it feels like the adults have lost the plot and it's got to be very hard for you to find people that kind of make sense.
I think you've been able to find a couple of them.
But just to be 17 in this very odd political, cultural time.
But yeah, it's awesome that now I can reach out for their expertise.
The thing with me is that I always like to start with, look, I don't know anything, and I'm always looking to get more information to know more.
Like today, I had a call with a gun expert on the way here, and it's like, what more can I learn in order to be fully fluent and knowledgeable about the subject that I'm talking about?
And there are a bunch of stuff that I don't know about and I'm constantly trying to learn.
So when you see a guy, and again I don't like making this about people rather than ideas, but when you see a guy like David Hogg out there, and he clearly is taking just the progressive line on this, and he seems more to me to be sort of a progressive activist than sort of a...
a fair arbiter of what's going on here.
That's gotta be frustrating for you, that he's so public about this, I suppose.
Well, that you obviously probably disagree with him on 100% of the policy parts of this.
Yeah, I don't wanna make it about the personal parts, but that he's thought of as sort of a media hero, and you're kind of the black sheep of this group.
I mean, maybe not to the Shapiros and me and whoever else.
So what I say is, when I'm pushing policy and I say something stupid, please tell me that I'm saying something stupid and push me back on that.
The thing is with me that, look, when I'm on TV, I'm not talking as a child, I'm pushing policy.
Right?
And I expect there to be pushback.
I don't think you can say whatever you want.
And in addition, I think that having debate is great.
I love going on Piers Morgan and having a debate with him.
That was great.
I hate this thing where one second you're spouting policy, but then you rush back to the shield of, oh, I'm a child, but we have to take my opinion seriously because the second I say it, I'm an adult.
This isn't fair.
I think one of the reasons why I grew to such publicity was because I was saying the things that adults weren't able to say.
Like, I was able to say things that Ben Shapiro or you or Charlie Kirk or the right wasn't able to say because I'm a kid.
And I don't think that's fair because I think that when you're sprouting policy, you are no longer a child, you are an adult.
What do you make of what's going on with the right, generally?
Because you ran the Turning Point, was that the high school event that I did?
Yes, High School Leadership Summit.
Okay, so you did the High School Leadership Summit in D.C., and I spoke there, this was a couple months ago, and you had a great lineup of speakers, and Peter Thiel was there, and you had big-time politicians, and first off, I mean, that was the first time we met, and I was like, holy...
We're going to talk a little bit about where you want to go to college and all that, but you ran an incredible event with major primetime people, and it was jam-packed, and it was diverse in terms of ideas.
So we get into a private debate about abortion, but you brought me there.
So I think the right is finally realizing that youth, like energizing the youth, And instilling the next, like, future of conservative leaders is extremely important.
And we saw that with the High School Leadership Summit.
We had some of the biggest names.
We had, like, Nikki Haley.
We had Betsy DeVos.
We had, like, Attorney Jeff Sessions.
We had so many people.
And we had Mark Meadows.
We had Steve Scalise.
We had Prager.
We had you.
And it was just, it was fantastic to see the right just understand that these are the leaders of tomorrow.
Let's inform them.
But in addition, Turning Point is such a great organization.
It's free speech, free markets, and capitalism.
Those are the three LECs.
And what we saw with Turning Point, it's such a great organization because we brought people who I have disagreements with to speak there.
Mark Cuban spoke, got us a couple standing ovations, had a debate with Charlie, and people loved it.
So we're all open.
Having free discussion and debate.
Like, we're working on Sasser Student Action Summit, December 19th, 22nd, shameless plug.
The left is so dead-set on political correctness and saying everything to not offend anyone with the slightest micro-micro-micro-aggression that it's just... You can't live in that world and call it...
Logical liberals, like yourself, are moving to the right because of that.
No, but really, I mean, what I've seen is intellectual flexibility there, and it's even when I've had Ben in here, and we've done this conversation repeatedly now about gay marriage, I just firmly believe that as time goes on, I can shift him.
There's something that's sort of insulting about it to me when people say that to me, because I'm confident, I'm confident enough in my thoughts.
No, I think Ben's interpretation of homosexuality, while I don't have a strong opinion on it, because I haven't thought about it enough, by his religious standpoint, it makes sense, but from the government's standpoint, it also makes total sense.
So when I'm on tour with Peterson, the question that I think both of us get asked more than anything else is, what are the best techniques to wake people up out of this sort of postmodern identity politics, progressive groupthink?
As a young person in the midst of this, what would you say are some techniques you've been able to use?
Because it can't just be about drubbing them with facts, right?
What we saw right now with Kanye in addition, it's just, he was simply saying, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, I support the president, our president has to be the freshest, the flyest, the hottest.
That was the greatest line.
Just pushing people to diversity of thought and freedom of expression to think whatever you want.
You shouldn't be held down by your skin color.
Or your race, or your sexuality.
None of this matters.
You should be able to think what you want and be able to say it without being tied down by your identity.
How do you make sure that you don't get burned out?
Because I think I remember the first communication we ever had, I think when either you followed me or I followed you on Twitter, I just sent you a quick one-line note and I was just like, just don't get burned out.
Because I saw you just You were in the fight every day.
You were owning the libs and all that, which, by the way, you mentioned that Nikki Haley was at your summit.
She went to, in effect, what is a lot of Trump people at this event you put on.
She goes there and she says, don't make this about just owning the libs.
And she got applause for it.
And I hit that same point, I think, the next day.
Because I think if you guys do exactly what you just laid out, just kinda stand there
and be cool and be decent, you will welcome a lot of people.
If they do, you have to treat it with decency and respect and not call them an idiot or something.
You have to treat them like a good human being should.
And then just have a rational conversation with them and see where they're coming from.
And a lot of times, I can immediately know what they're going to respond to me.
Like, just straight up the bat, I know what they're going to respond to me and I hit them with an initial, here's what you're going to say, here's the reason, and they're just shocked.
Yeah, I mean, when I first started speaking out, kids would come up to me in school and two things they would say, be like, Kyle, I'm a conservative.
So the thing about school was really interesting.
I would get stare downs and like people would like, like try to beat me up.
So people would like send me like, hey, Kyle, watch out so-and-so is trying to beat you up.
I was like, all right, man, go for it.
And people would give me stare downs and it was such, A villainization of being conservative, being a Second Amendment supporter.
When I spoke up, I kind of opened the crack for people to say, oh, I agree with him.
People would walk up to me and hush up, like, Kyle, thank you so much for doing.
I'm just scared to speak out.
And in addition, people would say, Kyle, I thought I was pro-gun control, and you spoke, and I listened to you, and then I did some more research, and I agree with you.
So that was great to see, and that's all I'm here for.
To have people It's gotta be pretty weird that you guys are still in high school, right?
I mean, at the end of the day, we have to remember that we're kids.
And I will explain it so you guys don't think I'm hypocritical.
When you're on TV and you're spouting politics, you're an adult.
But in your private life, you're a kid, and we cannot forget that.
So let's say, you know, when someone, some kid on the left does something stupid, it's, at the end of the day, they're a kid, and we have to address it as such.
but but it's it's been a crazy whirlwind and i think thank god i found a solid group of people who want the best for me that i can reach out you know just not for policy but also like personal advice like i i uh...
I asked Ben, hey, how do you think I should approach college absence?
I'm a conservative, you know, and he helped me out.
And it's just, it's so great to be able to reach out to people and have them, you know, give you advice from like, look, 20 years older than me, and give me that advice that they had to go through.
It's sort of weird, and I guess this shows a little bit about the way the college experience is going, but in a bizarre way, just knowing you from the little bit that I know you, it's like, in a way, it's almost like you don't have to go to college.
Well, I'm not saying you shouldn't, and I think there's all sorts of social reasons that somebody should go, and you learn in all sorts of other ways that aren't necessarily academic.
But it's like, clearly you've got the academic thing down and can keep learning that way.
So it's bizarre that people spend twenty grand a year to go to college.
The sad thing is... You're surrounded by a lot of great minds, is what I'm saying.
So what do you make of how this seems to be a through line through education, and I mean high school education, college education clearly, the media, like all of...
This sort of brainwashing stuff that you're talking about.
It's not real life, but the weird thing about that is it's starting to leak into real life.
I did a direct message like a year and a half ago or so about how online culture is becoming mainstream culture, and I think that that really is what's happening here.
Twitter's not real life, but it's starting to like leak out into everyone's conversations.
Fox News and CNN and MSNBC are basically Trump's Twitter.
Have you seen shows where they basically read random replies to messages?
It's like John Smith 3.74 riffs and plons to this like that.
And it's just so stupid.
But the biggest thing that we're seeing right now is a cultural shift with the youth.
Like, memes have so much power.
Memes matter.
Memes helped so much for Trump's 2016 campaign.
It really did.
And social media has a huge influence.
On our beliefs and our actions and that's why it is so scary to see censorship of conservatives online because that is basically like Twitter is basically the new version of you just like yelling into a crowd.
And that's basically like the main form of everyone's communication and shutting that down is like heavily restricting you know I haven't developed my full opinion on this but it seems as such restricting this restricts your like really restricts your First Amendment right.
Yeah, the big issue is, I don't know if I'm saying this right, but I think one of the things is if they're a certain, or if they're a publisher, then they have a lot of legal liability.
If they're a platform, then everyone should say whatever they want, but that's not the case, so it's like, pick one.
And they're just completely censoring conservatives.
Like, I know PragerU gets, like, their videos demonetized so much.
Yeah, well, now it's gotten a little bit better, but our videos just don't go out to feeds anymore.
I went on that crazy... Yeah, they don't have algorithms.
Yeah, that crazy rampage I went on where I just started retweeting real people.
I only did it with real people with real names saying they've been unsubscribed and they're getting hundreds and sometimes thousands of retweets and I'm tagging YouTube and they just ignore me.
How worried are, well, it's so interesting to me because you never, you didn't grow up in a time when there was some sort of trustworthy, seemingly trustworthy level of the media.
Like CNN was not always this.
The reason, I don't even know if you know this, but the reason I think that so many people like me that are older than you attack CNN the most is because CNN used to be decent.
So one of the things I've been saying lately is that I'm actually in a bizarre way less interested in politics now than I've ever been, but I'm interested in what you referenced a little while ago, this culture.
No, I mean, there are pros and cons to that, but we have to play by the rules that are set by society, and these are the rules.
These are the rules that culture has a massive impact on society, and whether I like it or not, that Kanye is speaking out.
First of all, I think it's great that he's speaking out.
It's his First Amendment right.
I don't think we should be propping up Opinions by celebrities simply because they're famous.
You have to show that you are informed on the subject.
And that's that.
But it doesn't take a political genius to say that I believe in our Second Amendment and our First Amendment.
That doesn't take, but Taylor Swift doing like a 7,000 page essay, you know, that makes absolutely no sense and contradicts itself, written by like a liberal I was disappointed in that just because I have no particular feelings about her one way or another.
And blacks, especially young blacks, are saying, look...
They look up to Kanye West.
Millions look up to him.
And they say, this individual, why does this individual think this way?
And even more so, he didn't bow down to the mob, which is fantastic.
And we're seeing like a real shift.
I don't know, the 38% number, or 38% African American approval of Trump, I don't know if that's necessarily true.
All I know is that there was a 3% jump.
In August, the black approval rating of Trump was 3%.
One of the latest polls that I know, A month or so ago, it was 10%.
So there's a big jump.
We're seeing that so many young African-Americans are so energized.
I know Turning Point is doing a Black Leadership Summit, like a week, in the White House.
We're going to get just 400 African-American young individuals to be able to speak there, to be able to listen and to see that the left is losing their stranglehold on culture.
And it is scary for them, because that is the one thing that they have left.
I think this mob mentality and watching these videos of Antifa in Portland and Hillary saying we can't be civil and Eric Holder saying if we go low, we kick them.
When they go low, we kick them.
And it's like, man, if you stand for due process and civil society and all of those things, That thing needs to burn.
The left thinks, the left just completely disregards the constitution.
The constitution was written and like the amendment, the Bill of Rights was forced by anti-federalists to make sure that the government could not become tyrannical and abuse its power.
This is so important.
It's protecting the rights of the individuals and these rights Why do we not all agree on them?
Why is it wrong to believe nude process?
Why is it wrong to say, I believe that individuals should have the right to defend themselves and also defend against the tyranny of a possible government?
The second amendment was basically written because the founders had just fought against Great Britain and they had seen how a tyrannical government quickly becomes.
So one more thing I didn't note.
The first thing tyrannical governments do is they take away the weapons.
of the civilians.
We saw this in Nazi Germany.
We saw this in China.
We saw this in Cambodia.
That's the first thing they do.
And the individual right to bear arms is every individual.
It's not related to the militia clause.
So it's basically saying every individual has the right to protect themselves, and even more so, it's necessary for the protection of a free state.
I used to play World of Tanks, and then moved to Rocket League.
Okay, it's terrible game.
It's boring.
Then I played Overwatch, I played Paladins, I played PUBG, and then I played Fortnite.
And Fortnite, this was when all the shooting occurred, and I just stopped dead in my tracks.
Because it was just, it's a waste of time, and I see my younger brothers who are addicted to the game, and it's just sad to see that this is the state of our youth, that they're just completely addicted to technology.
Like, I'm certain, if I have kids, okay, they're not seeing a phone until they're 12.
So, yeah, I have some of the remaining friends that I have, which are really solid friends.
You know, on weekends we hang out.
We go watch movies and stuff like that.
In addition, I just think it's great.
One of the greatest things for me for having fun is just simply talking to like-minded kids, like young individuals, at these Turning Point events that we run, and it's great.
And, like, meeting with And pushing policy and stuff like that is just fantastic.
Like, one of the greatest feelings ever was like passing the Stop School Violence Act and Fix NICS.
Like, the Stop School Violence Act appropriated funds, two billion dollars in funds, for the protection of schools, like hardening schools, metal detectors, making better communication between law enforcement, training law enforcement, teachers and students.
And in addition, there was a clause that said, none of this money will be used for firearm or firearm trainings.
So this was, like, the greatest win for the left?
And they still hated the bill?
And, like, the March for Our Lives kids hated it?
But no, I mean, I'm really dead set on making sure that school shootings just are a thing of the past.
And just learning about the Second Amendment and just being more knowledgeable and having these debates and discussions are just like, they really make my day.