Unlike his classmates, Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv has tirelessly defended Americans’ Second Amendment rights, and on Friday, he went to the gun range with his father to learn how to properly handle a firearm for the first time.
“It was great learning about our inalienable right of #2A and how to properly use a gun,” Kashuv wrote on Twitter. “This was my first time ever touching a gun and it made me appreciate the #Constitution even more.”
It was great learning about our inalienable right of #2A and how to properly use a gun. This was my first time ever touching a gun and it made me appreciate the #Constitution even more. My instructor was very informative; I learnt a lot. #2A is important and we need 2 preserve 2A pic.twitter.com/4rcOZbpl88
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
Kashuv also shared video of him firing and learning about an AR-15. “Facts matter. I wish the facts of guns were more known,” he wrote.
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
Facts matter. I wish the facts of guns were more known. We need to educate the public and show them why they NEED the 2A. pic.twitter.com/HzjEx9LH2r
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 21, 2018
Unfortunately, because gun-grabbing liberals are triggered even by the safe, proper usage of guns, Kashuv’s classmates at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took umbrage with him posting about his visit to the gun range. And when Kashuv arrived at school on Monday, he found himself in the crosshairs of not one, not two, but three officers from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.
Kashuv issued a statement on what transpired to The Daily Wire, and you have to read the whole thing to believe it (emphasis mine):
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 later tweeted about the incident, saying, “I can now check off being wrongfully questioned by law enforcement off [my] bucket list.”
I can now check off being wrongfully questioned by law enforcement off by bucket list.
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 23, 2018
The actions of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office here are nothing short of Orwellian. Officers assumed Kashuv posed a potential threat to the school based on absolutely nothing except that he supports the Second Amendment and posted on social media about going to a gun range with his father. Are his First and Second Amendment rights somehow negated just because he’s a school shooting survivor who happens to think for himself?
Broward County Public Schools and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office have not responded to requests for comment about their actions.
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An unbelievable violation of this student’s rights. These three “cops” should be suspended and the school administrators who allowed it should be handed their final paycheck. There’s no excuse for this outrage.
From the Web > DUH!!! THE SAME 3 ADVERTISEMENTS ONLY WITH DIFFERENT PICTURES ABOVE. DUH!!! B O R I N G!!!!!
Nikola’s BELOW SAYS: Cops are jerks. WANDA SAYS: AND THE OPPOSITE IS ALSO TRUE!!!
Like I Tweeted Kyle, the BCSO isn’t a law enforcement organization as long as they are run by Sheriff Israel, they are a political pawn or worse. It is important that he remember that if the BCSO had done their job, the shooting at his high school would never have happened.
Wonder if those 3 were the ones hiding when the shooting went down?
And yet they were unable to connect the dots with Nikolas Cruz?
They had better things to do than help Cruz with his problems. They collected their money and they moved on!
This student should have stopped answering any questions until, his father was present, he had a lawyer present[ not one of the murdering school representatives], or every question and the hole gestapo questioning was recorded and on record that this is against his wishes. How can these socialist idiot cops who was involved in the murder of the students even think of questioning a minor for attending a class on safety with his father. LOCK THESE COPS UP FOR MANSLAUGHTER!!!!
If I Was This Awesome Pro 2nd Amendment Kid I Would have Got Up and Walked Out but Since He Didn’t I Hope He Let His Parents Know What Happened and His Parents Take Legal Steps To Remedy This Gross Abuse Of Power That These Officials Did Basically by Terrorising This Child
This American Kid needs to get a good Lawyer with the support of his parents and sue the hell out of that gestapo.
A minor, by law, cannot be questioned without a parent being present. These officers violated the law. They should be removed from active duty and a full investigation instituted.
AND his parents need to file a lawsuit against the school and the Sheriff’s department.
You are exactly right. If he had been a Black Kid, you would have had the whole sharpton, jackson gang down there.
This is what Tyranny looks like folks. This is one reason why we have the 2nd Amendment ! These actions by law enforcement are wrong, did not follow the law, an inexcusable. They are a disgrace to the law enforcement officers who do follow the law. These officers should be fired and their certifications pulled.
Long live the 2nd Amendment. This is exactly why our ForeFathers wrote the 2nd.
Greenleaf and those other two bastards need to be fired post haste. For the Sheriff’s department to get involved with harassing this kid is unconscionable.
This kids has the best of them now, the police can not question a minor without a parent being present.
He went to the range with his father. The police then can not have an issue with him being at the gun range.
Personally I would have gotten up and went back to class.
Stand your ground kid…The authorities are in the wrong big time. Should you have another similar issue after you ask the Officers, have I done anything wrong and receive a ‘no’ answer. Tell ’em you want one of your parents or an attorney present or you will simply leave and go back to class. They will threaten to arrest but cannot since they have already stated you have done nothing wrong.
Don’t let them off the hook! Broward County cops seem to have a Nazi mindset. As has been mentioned, he should not have said a word or answered any questions without a parent present and probably a lawyer. I have the greatest respect for law enforcement, but I would have stone-walled them without representation. I hope Kyle learned a lesson or two. I smell grounds for a big law suite! Get a lawyer and make therm pay!
Coward (Broward) Country Sheriffs Department screws up & ignores all the reports they received about Nicholas Cruz but they want to harrass a kid without his parents present because he posted about going to the shooting range. Idiots!
BROWARD POLICE WERE INVOLVED WITH SCHOOL SYSTEM AND COUNTY TO TAKE FED. DOLLARS TO NOT DO A THING ABOUT STOPPING THE SCHOOL SHOOTER Nikolas Cruz . Even though he had punched his mother’s teeth out, had been expelled from three schools, had violent records they were all covered up so the money could keep flowing to broward county. The police in Broward feel like we do not have a Constitution and that they are the gestapo. Praying for my nation.
After the first two questions he should have requested that his father be present at the interrogation (that’s what it sounds like). His father could then have decided on what course of action to take. Too many officers are bullies and take advantage of their position. If the officers had been polite and courteous during the interview there would have been no issue. There are a lot of very good policing officers that do a very good job; these don’t appear to be from that mould.
How old is Kyle, where were his parents during this INTERROGATION??? Broward County and their Sheriff’s Office just can’t do anything right!!!
Since when can a Sheriff’s officer conduct an interrogation of a minor without the parent present? Most states that is not legal.
He certainly has a right to go to the range with his father, and has done nothing wrong. However, it was a bit naive to post about it on the internet. Should have known it would stir up a firestorm!
Edith. you may very well be correct concerning this young minor’s ( boy ) naiveté concerning the posting about his firing range experience. However this questioning, WITHOUT his parents present is UNLAWFUL, to say the very least, in my opinion. Those involved should be made to answer for such actions.
Cops are jerks.
@ Nikola’s Cops are jerks. AND THE OPPOSITE IS ALSO TRUE!!!
Of course the future libtard Democrap’s took issue with Kashuv going to the gun range. It doesn’t fit they’re carefully orchestrated anti-gun agenda.