Parkland Student Backs Out of Debate with Pro-Second Amendment Student

In the wake of the Parkland shooting, high school students across the country have been given a voice unlike ever before. Unfortunately, the only students who have been afforded this platform are those fighting for strict gun-control measures and those who hate the NRA and President Trump.

Meanwhile, pro-Second Amendment students – even those who were present at Stoneman Douglas High School when the shooting took place – have been silenced and marginalized by the mainstream media.

Students such as Kyle Kashuv – a Stoneman Douglas student who is going against the crowd and fighting against infringements on Second Amendment rights – have not been given exclusive interviews on ABC and CNN. Unlike David Hogg and countless others, Kyle Kashuv has not had a platform handed to him on a silver platter and has instead had to manufacture his own opportunities to spread his message.

One such attempt to get the facts out to more people came when Kyle Kashuv tried to arrange a debate with student gun control activist Cameron Kasky.

Initially, Cameron Kasky agreed to the debate. While it’s uncertain how much media attention the debate would have been given, it still presented an excellent opportunity for Kasky to be forced to defend the viewpoints he has thus far been allowed to broadcast without any form of challenge from the journalists and reporters who interview him. Now, however, Kasky has backed out of the debate, citing a “personal attack” by Kyle Kashuv as his reason for not holding up his agreement.

The “personal attack” in question was a tweet sent out by Kyle Kashuv in response to a tweet published by a family member of one of the Stoneman Douglas victims, Jesse Guttenberg. Guttenberg’s Tweet said, “Clear backpacks are not the answer. Anyone can sneak a knife into school by putting it into a folder or a gun by hiding it in their pants. Don’t violate our privacy and give us real security. That’s what will help.”

Kashuv responded to this Tweet by saying, “Instead, let’s violate our Constitution?”

This was the exchange that Cameron Kasky somehow qualified as being a personal attack. He later tweeted at Kyle Kashuv saying, “Kyle, I’ve enjoyed my discussion about gun laws with you so far, but after seeing this, I think I’m out. For personal reasons. I disagree on certain policies with some family members of some victims, but I never go after them, especially not like this. This is low.”

What’s ironic is that while Cameron Kasky is taking offense over what is a very civil and non-personal comment, his comrades in the fight for increased gun control have dished out one personal attack after another, calling Dana Loesch – the spokesperson for the NRA – as well as a number of Republican politicians “child killers” and “murderers” because they refuse to support eroding away the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. These comments don’t seem to bother Cameron Kasky, though, in spite of the fact that he apparently finds Kyle Kashuv’s comment atrocious enough to cause him to back out of a debate that he agreed to participate in.

In response to Kasky backing out, Ben Shapiro tweeted, “Your call, @cameron_kasky, but I’m rather confused as to why @kylekashuv responding to the argument of a victim’s family member in perfectly polite political fashion is some sort of egregious sin.”

What’s far more likely is that Cameron Kasky was looking for a way out of the debate and found one – however flimsy it might be – in Kyle Kashuv’s tweet. Kashuv is a well-informed, well-spoken student who would almost certainly be a challenge for any pro- gun-control student to debate.

While other students have been making emotional pleas on the likes of CNN and trying to build an acting career out of a tragedy, Kyle Kashuv has been meeting with politicians to discuss real solutions. When Kyle Kashuv has been given a platform to voice his opinion, he’s brought facts and statistics rather than relying on emotion and knee-jerk responses. All things considered, it’s no small wonder that Cameron Kasky didn’t want to debate him in front of a national audience.

Nevertheless, it’s a shame that this debate will not take place. Students such as Cameron Kasky have gone completely unchallenged thus far. Only when their opinions are met with real scrutiny and discussion will they realize how poorly-grounded in reality those opinions really are.

~ American Liberty Report


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