Will Witt Talks with Kyle Kashuv | Interviews

A lot has happened to you in that in that short amount of time since the shooting happened How how was everything going for you? Uh, I mean, there's no really way to properly recover, but time will heal. That's the only proper Medication for it in my opinion yeah, you know I'm just still trying to like deal with reality here But the only proper solution to this is just fighting for a change and making sure you get legislation passed I'm not gonna lose sight of that. Yeah, honestly. I feel like with all the you know hysteria That's happened after this you know horrible tragedy and what's happened with a lot of your classmates You know a lot of what has actually happened during that time kind of got lost could you run us through You know part of what happened that day, and you know if you feel comfortable with it. Just kind of what happened sure, so I was in my fourth period class and the fire alarm bell rang and Previously in the day we had a fire alarm drill so I didn't think it was big deal I thought it was just someone just accidentally pulled the alarm, so I was walking out slowly. I din't think it was big deal I was like could I ask my teacher if I could stay inside He said no he had leave so the second So I walk out so I was walking outside to the door about to reach the door And then the announcements vice-principal goes and he says everyone must evacuate immediately so we rush outside And outside of here to Pop's now I didn't realize what was going on at that time, so I started slowly walking back to my classroom apparently What happened was, Exactly when I was outside in the hallway there was an announcement in the speakers and it told every was an active shooter on campus now the thing is that when it found in the hallway I wasn't able to hear because there's no speaker's setup and even more so after all this occurred They still don't add speaker systems to the hallway outside, which which really angered me because look when I'm looking at it We have an issue at our school system that could easily be solved and it's not being solved So then I ran back inside to my classroom Girls were everyone was to stare and then he closed the door on me I talked to him after the end of the reason was he was just following procedure I mean I understood what he did and then girls were crying in the cursing for him to open the door He wouldn't, so we quickly ran into another room A teacher close by we hid there And then we had no idea what was going on so I just decided the best thing was to sit in the closet So we piled in we stuffed everyone to the closet as many people as possible And we just sat there and we got updates for about two hours until SWAT took us at about 4:40 We then walked outside we had to put our hands on each other's backs and then walk in a single-file line I had to leave all my stuff at school I was only able to take my phone, and then I just walked over to the nearby park and uh My dad came to pick me up Geez man again, I can't even begin to imagine how they must have found so sorry that all that had to happen You know it's not that it's just that what angers me more Is that was an issue of the school system where I wasn't able to understand what was going on so it easily could have... What even more so what I was talking to a close friend of mine Patrick Petty He told me when the shooter came on campus. He came from like the front gates On the right of the front gate so that it honestly could have been one of those Shot and injured or killed had the shooter decided to take a left versus a right Do you know what even more is when there was a shooter on campus in the announcement was made? It was a failure of the system Because there was no speakers outside and even more so no one is solving the issue now even there's all this media attention the small things that can actually save A life and that are actually doable by the school system, which don't need any legislation aren't being done Well you were at the school So you know what happened during the shooting what else could have been done to stop the shooting you think Well, I mean first of all even before Someone comes on campus is preparing to make an attack there are warning signs and every single shooting the shooter always gives himself away before It occurs and this one. He was on he was on YouTube it was an Instagram and Even more so the police and the school and the FBI and the Child Protective Services Knew about this and they did absolutely nothing for one very specific reason because they're getting money from the federal government for how clean their Record looks like that's what it comes down to the less people they arrest the cleaner the record is the more money They get federally and that's what the issue is the police aren't doing their job because they're incentivized Not to and even more so when someone arrived on campus we had the proper security, okay And seemingly the proper security to stop them, but they didn't do anything. They didnt do absolutely anything and and I talked to Andrew Pollock, and I cried after he told me this he told me that his daughter would have been safe if If if the armed guard went to the third floor because what happened was The only reason the shooting stopped was because Nick's gun jammed that was the only reason and That had the police actually gone upstairs and stopped the shooter his daughter would have been safe because she was locked outside of a classroom So had the police done their job after the first seconds of the confusion his daughter would have been alive and so would five others Now will we have oh, go ahead all right? Well now what I was gonna say is now that we have you know we have this March for our lives and everything I actually Did a video of that shoot? Interviewing the students and all the other people who are there and you know a lot of these things they are not including you on They don't invite you to speak they don't put you on the time cover Why do you think that is well look that's irrelevant forget about me. What about Patrick Petty who lost his sister That's that's truly the heartbreaking thing here. They they forcibly ignored, okay? I'm gonna say forcibly ignored Patrick Petty's request to speak on the basis that he has some pro-second amendment stances which is absolutely disgusting Forget about me. I understand that they they didn't was reach out to me and asked me that's ok That's understandable in some respect but to not allow The brother of a victim to speak is absolutely disgusting and then and then the reasoning was that from Hunter Pollock Who's older than 18 whose sister was shot was killed, Meadow Pollock, the reasoning was that he was over than 18, which is ok? That's true. That's your guidelines. How come Patrick petty was unable to talk and look at the end of the day I Understand why I'm being excluded But the people who truly have who should be given all the spotlight aren't being And that's what's yeah. Well. We know the agenda you know that they're pushing the left-wing agenda with that. I'm uh I'm still waiting for your debate with David Hogg, when is that gonna happen? Whenever he wants to man and everyone wants to debate me You know is we know it was actually pretty interesting, so we're certainly today We went to the auditorium to sign up AP forums, and the person was supposed to be sitting next to me was kasky But he wasn't there that day have been really fun. Yeah, well. This is what I was saying I was talking with some other people before this you know I thought it'd be interesting to ask you if you were to you know do you see David Hogg and some of these other people on campus when you're now I mean I've seen some of the the less prominent members on campus definitely a bit I've spoken to Alphonso I Tried to talk to him and explain to him Why an assault rifle ban is this moronic, and it simply won't work um I see them I haven't seen I don't think I've seen Hogg Kasky or Emma on campus, yeah But what I do get is a lot of stare down which is fun. Yeah, I can only imagine yeah So I know that these other students. They're planning you know a lot of other things Trying to get students. You know to protest guns get more gun control Things like that and we were talking about this before on Friday you're gonna be doing something on Facebook right oh, yeah It's gonna be huge. Yeah, what is that about? so basically here's what it is and For kids who don't want to walk out Here's the reason why not to walk out the walk out will accomplish absolutely nothing So here's what we did to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting Here's what we did we made a live stream some of the most prominent members to discuss ways to save lives Without infringing on the Second Amendment and discuss the importance of mental health It truly comes down to what can we solve definitively today? And how do we educate the public on that I can tell you I got Sebastian Gorka to speak Charlie Kirk to speak and Easter Moochie to speak so many prominent figures The end goal here is not to push a partisan solution is to push solutions that actually work whether they're Democrat or Republican I mean And to make sure we don't infringe in the Second Amendment because at the end of the day the Second Amendment is what protects Every other amendment, and it starts by taking away the rights of individual gun owners, and I think informing the public is Extremely important to where a walk at will accomplish absolutely nothing, but gain clicks for CNN and MSNBC Yeah, I mean you have hashtag you had hashtag the repeal second trending on Twitter I mean, that's just insane to me that these people are actually pushing for that that people want to desecrate the Constitution I mean so I think you know doing that The Constitution is one of the mostost beautiful literary it's one of the beautiful most beautiful legislative pieces. They don't understand it They've lost that they've lost that the left has completely lost that Sometimes come with like not having respect for your elders and viewing elders as ignorant I mean the founding fathers has such a grasp perspective on the future of America that they were able to predict What would possibly occur mm-hmm? Yeah well people nowadays have lost traditional values at the March for our lives. I mean you saw that there So yeah, it's crazy. What's going on? I'm just hoping that we can you know help people stop being so misinformed because in my opinion I think it's really just misinformation that these people are getting it's not even their fault. It's just you know the main media and Their professors at schools and high school as well Wanna hear something about that? yeah, tell me. That tired the entire youth Ideology is from like the left stems from from ignorance It's truly that because I truly think that if you look into the facts and statistics And all points for the conservative point of view I was speaking with all Was a young and rising teen very prominent? And I mean I explained to him the stance of abortion and and in the beginning I mean It's stemmed from ignorance, but after a while if there's anything to the fact. He like yo Kyle wow I didn't I didn't actually Wow, you're right this Some there's some issues with abortion. I mean some sometimes at some stages shouldn't be legal I I mean what I did was I basically shifted his perspective by showing him reality in facts and I think that's one of the greatest things in even more so today in history class we were talking about I believe elections and someone brought up How DC right now the they lowered the age to vote to 16 and to me It was somewhat concerning when this occurred was because a lot of the youth they're very intelligent But they're ignorant and they don't apply themselves you know I mean I sure I have faith I have faith in the youth. I think that I really do, but I at the end of the day, It's just a lot of it a lot of liberal perspectives comes from peer pressure And I truly believe that if you look at the facts they all point for the conservative point of view specifically I mean 100 percent in the gun control debate all the facts are entirely On the second amendment side. Oh, yeah. They are I mean conservatives are just playing catch-up at this point You know where we have to basically bring people back from being misinformed for so long. It's not these people's faults You know I talked to a lot of people it's not that they Disagree with conservative ideas they've just they've literally never even heard one. They didn't even know that there were other stances that you could take And I think that you're doing great work You know helping to inform people you know really being strong with all the other students on your campus being so against the Second Amendment So we want to thank you Kyle for joining us today and talking to us about this Yeah, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. This is Will Witt with Prager U. Thank you everybody for watching