Heartened to see children affected by tragedy using their voices to try and create change. Wonderful to meet and speak with Stoneman Douglas High School student @KyleKashuv today at the @WhiteHouse. His message of unity inspires us all! #MSDStrong pic.twitter.com/N5ZqdGruwT
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) March 8, 2018
Here’s a kid actually trying to do something constructive, reaching out to all sides and putting David Hogg to shame by actually doing something constructive that might help.
Via Fox News:
While Parkland school shooting survivor and gun control advocate David Hogg bragged on national television about hanging up on the White House, fellow survivor and classmate Kyle Kashuv says he’d prefer to bridge the political divide.
Kashuv said Hogg’s boast on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” left him feeling dispirited.
“I was disappointed and angry,” Kashuv told Fox News on Friday. “Even if you don’t agree with the president, you should still support the president. What they did was wrong.”
Kashuv, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School junior, is a strong Second Amendment supporter who has been calling for bipartisan support and so far practicing what he preaches, meeting with legislative leaders from both sides of the aisle – a path that eventually led to the White House. And he’s even created an app to help prevent future school shootings.
Kashuv said the Parkland massacre could’ve been prevented at many different levels — including the failure of local law enforcement to identify shooter Nikolas Cruz as a threat despite a plethora of calls to authorities; the FBI’s failure to intervene despite two tips that Cruz may be a future school shooter; and the alleged failure of some responding officers to enter the school immediately.