Ep. 113 - Leftist Jackals Prey On Parkland ft. MSD student Kyle Kashuv
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Summary
Two weeks after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a gunman opened fire in the halls of the school on February 14th. On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael sits down with one of the students, Kyle Kashuv, to talk about his experience with media outlets like CNN, Hollywood, celebrities, and political operatives descending on and preying on his community. Then we expose the real forces behind gun control efforts in the Parkland community, and why they re doing it. Finally, CNN analyst Mark Hurtling clarifies his comments on full automatic weapons.
Transcript
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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students returned to school today,
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not about guns, not about his thoughts on public policy,
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but rather about his experience of media outlets like CNN
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and Hollywood celebrities and political operatives
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Then we expose the real forces behind gun control efforts in Parkland
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Finally, CNN analyst Lieutenant General Mark Hurtling
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clarifies his comments on full semi-automatic weapons.
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We will clarify his clarification, which is really an obfuscation
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because CNN belongs to its father and when it lies, it speaks its native language.
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I'm very excited to talk to Kyle as a sort of meta-conversation,
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Kyle Kashov is a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
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who survived the shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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Unlike his classmates, Kyle has come out publicly in defense of the Second Amendment and the NRA
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and against that incompetent and cowardly Sheriff Scott Israel,
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but I don't want to talk about any of those things with, with Kyle because I think it's really awful.
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I think it's cheap and tawdry and awful of outlets like CNN to pimp these teenagers out
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who have survived a tragedy to push their anti-civil rights agenda.
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And I don't want to do that even to push my own pro-civil rights agenda.
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I will, we've talked to Professor Volokh about the Second Amendment.
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But what I would like to talk to Kyle about is the media,
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how the media and tech giants like Twitter have treated students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.
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So Kyle, first, thank you so much for coming on.
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And I'm sure it is not easy going back and settling in.
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The first thing I want to talk to you about is the media,
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because this is something that you all can speak to better than anybody.
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I cannot turn on CNN for the past two weeks without seeing Brian Stelter or one of his colleagues
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coaching your classmates who opposed the Second Amendment into saying something to advance that agenda.
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In fact, the only time CNN reported on you, Kyle, it wrote,
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Kyle, 16, a Stoneman Douglas student, identifies as a Republican and a conservative.
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He has, he said he has always been pro-guns, but looks at things differently since the shooting.
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And then it moves, and actually, to my knowledge, that isn't even true.
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But then surrounding the statement, it just talked about all of your other classmates pushing for gun bans.
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How come, Kyle, CNN has not been inviting you on the air around the clock?
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Well, first of all, I think that it's simply because I'm a Republican
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and that CNN is trying to push a very liberal agenda, and I just don't fit their criteria.
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It's very clear that most of the mainstream media is very liberal,
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and they choose to have people who will assist in their agenda.
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It isn't just, obviously, we know where CNN is coming from here.
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It is a little tawdry, I think, to use, I think it's a little tawdry to use the victims
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or survivors of a shooting like this to push a political agenda.
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But it's even more tawdry to only bring on the ones who agree with their political point of view
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Now, all of your classmates who oppose the Second Amendment have received blue Twitter checkmarks,
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You, conspicuously, have been granted neither of those things.
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Well, I think, first of all, I've been getting so much support in the media as of right now,
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I think as of right now I'm up to like 60,000 or something followers on Twitter,
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I think that maybe Twitter has like a liberal agenda somewhat
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and that they choose who to verify and who not to.
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And that's saddening, but because they're a private organization,
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they're allowed to do so as like granted in their own rights.
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But still, it's quite saddening to see that a lot of my peers who are also activists
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and I'm trying to make a change, although liberal, are being verified.
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Yeah, they are, because it used to be to be verified.
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It just was, you know, if people were pretending to be you
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or they wanted to make it clear that this was the real person.
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And then starting with that white nationalist guy, Richard Spencer,
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they started pulling the verification as though he's no longer who he is, you know,
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and then it became clearly much more of an endorsement.
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Somehow I still have my checkmark, but that probably won't go on for long.
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But I think it's somewhat of a, you know, I mean, like it's an ego boost, you know,
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especially for the kids who get it and for the people who get it.
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They think that they're better than everyone else simply because they have the checkmark.
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And it doesn't have that much semblance except saying that you've been recognized by a private company.
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And this is really the reason I brought you on is because I was very hesitant to talk to the people at your school
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just because you've had a tragedy that doesn't seem to me a good reason to say,
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okay, now promote my gun agenda or something on television.
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But what I want to ask you is CNN, Mike Bloomberg's anti-gun group Everytown, how many other organizations,
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the George Soros' MoveOn.org, the Women's March, even Planned Parenthood for some reason,
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Do you think all of these political operatives have helped your community?
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They start a conversation, as they always seem to say.
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Or would it have been better if the news cameras and the Twitter checkmarks and the on-TV activists
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and the political operatives never went anywhere near Parkland?
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I think the part one is that, first of all, it's a good story.
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And it brings in the views and sadly brings in the clicks.
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And that's what a lot of the mainstream media wants.
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And that's sadly what attracts the everyday viewer.
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The second aspect is that what I see, I see that a lot of the mainstream media, especially CNN,
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is doing a divide, is growing a divide between our country, between the left and the right,
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I really see that America wants to have this be a bipartisan issue, and they want to solve this collectively.
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And what CNN is doing is that they're splitting between there's no middle ground.
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It's either you're on the left and you're against it or you're part of the right.
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So people are going to cover it, and they should cover it.
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The gun grabbers want to grab the guns like they always do.
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And supporters of the constitutionally protected civil right to keep and bear arms point out
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that no gun control law would have prevented this awful shooting.
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But Americans should be able to come together and grieve at least.
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And clearly, CNN has precluded any chance of that on the national level.
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For your community itself, has Parkland itself come together?
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Or is Parkland as divided as the rest of the country?
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I think that right now, Parkland is especially, like, has come together.
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But I think that CNN has put in a wedge between our community simply by allowing fame chasers.
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I'm not—it allows people who simply want the views and the attention to acquire that very easily.
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I see people who, on every day, should not be getting a lot of the media attention,
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who are seeking it firsthand to generate their own agenda and to generate their own publicity.
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Are you talking about people from Parkland, or are you talking about commentators on CNN?
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I'm talking about their—it's clear to see that there's some students at my school who choose to—who further their own career.
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It's interesting you say that. I was kind of thinking, because I really don't blame the teenagers who are going on TV.
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Well, yeah, we're teenagers. You know, like, you can't blame a teenager.
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And that's, like, excluded from the fact that we're kids. You know, you shouldn't take us seriously.
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I'm actually very glad to hear you say that, because I sort of think, you know,
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if I were a teenager and someone asked me to go on TV, I'd go on TV, even if it were some god-awful network like CNN.
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I still would do it. And, you know, if I were a teenager, I'd probably go on and spout off about things that I didn't know very much about
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and about constitutional law and public policy.
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And I'd probably do all of that, because that's what teenagers do almost by definition.
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But there has been so much activism and so much attention paid to the gun control activists
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who are coming out of Parkland, gun control activist students.
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And all of the activism seems to be either funded by people in Hollywood or funded by people in D.C.
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And I really wonder how much of it is coming from Parkland itself
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and how much of it is just being fed by big news networks and Democrat activists.
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The community is very supportive in that they're pushing people to speak out and their voice, their opinions.
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But the second thing is, I really think that a lot of this is coordinated by mainstream media, by, you know, CNN or aspects like that.
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There's no way students, kids, 16-year-olds would have been able to accomplish all that they've done.
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Yeah, I do wonder, when you see about these national protests and all of these events,
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you think, I don't know, when I was 16 or 17, I wasn't forming national events.
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Well, then again, at this day and age, do we have Twitter?
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We're able to, like, massively and quickly organize workouts.
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That's true, and immediately attract celebrity support.
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Twitter is amazing that way, especially when you get hundreds of thousands of followers and a little blue checkmark.
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In terms of your classmates, maybe not the ones that we've seen on television constantly,
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but what do your classmates that you've talked to think about this media circus,
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this anti-Second Amendment activism, everything else?
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Are they on board with it, bring on the cameras,
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or do they think that it detracts from what took place,
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that it's taking what should be a sober grieving process and making it into something else?
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I think specifically those who have lost their best friends
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and those who are in the freshman building personally choose not to talk to media
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and they specifically go out of their way not to talk to media
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because speaking to media, they use, like, a lot of the media,
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they use, like, a false sense of emotional attachment and concern that truly isn't there,
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and then it dilutes from, like, the actual experiences that these children went through.
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There was a freshman building, and you're saying those people aren't really talking out that much?
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A lot of those who suffered the most traumatic stories,
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like the people who were actually in the rooms that were shot into,
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and the people that saw their best friends die in front of their eyes,
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I have not seen a single one put on, like, put on, like, a very big platform and speaking out.
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So you're saying that the people that we're looking at on television haven't,
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they weren't in the building where the shooting took place?
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I think that there are many people who are now speaking out who are valued as, like, heroes,
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did not specifically, were not in the freshman building.
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So when people call me a hero, I'm like, no, I'm not a hero.
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I'm simply a teenager who's forcing his own opinion.
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Who was on this campus but wasn't in the building, right?
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There's been so much reporting on this, and there's been so much demagoguery.
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It seemed like immediately the media moved from this awful event happened,
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now we have to talk about gun control, and the stories of the event itself,
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I think the gun control pretty much took over all of that.
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Do you have any other, I don't, I don't mean to come off and say,
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I don't want to hear your opinion about anything,
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and I just think that the media who have pounced and said,
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But is there anything else you'd like to say to the audience before we let you go?
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I really think that, like, the Never Again movement,
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a lot of, like, leaders currently understand that we have to issue this as a bipartisan issue.
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We have to work together as a bipartisan issue,
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and that we're using, now, like, the logics come into play for what's logically achievable.
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And now we understand that, look, there are certain aspects that cannot be repealed,
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it cannot be changed, such as, you know, banning all guns, simply not going to happen.
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So, you know, mental health restrictions, keep your background checks.
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We're focusing on what can be done and what's reasonable.
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And it's really gladdening to see the entire community,
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And it's really, it's becoming a bipartisan issue,
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and I really think that's important, that the moderate,
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even though the media reports that there's no middle ground,
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Of course, most people in this country, I think,
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but all you ever see on television are these screaming celebrities
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That, really, really interesting perspective, Kyle.
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Our heart's going out to you down there in Parkland
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We are going to move on now to the March for Our Lives.
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So this is another aspect of this entire event.
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March for Our Lives is created by, inspired by,
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who will no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else
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to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings
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that are organizing everything from behind the scenes.
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And the same thing is happening with March for Our Lives.
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Democrats always say this is not a political issue.
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We're just going to deprive you of your civil rights.
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There cannot be two sides to doing everything in our power
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when they should be learning, playing, and growing.
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is to demand that a comprehensive and effective bill
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To hear things like this isn't a political issue,
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This is language that says there is no debate here.
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TMZ reports that 22,000 March for Our Lives shirts
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And it's just like the pussy hats all over again.
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who's running the March for Our Lives fundraising campaign.
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is the future dystopian president Oprah Winfrey.
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We've donated money to help pay for their march.