A Parkland Right-Winger Crosses the Free-Speech Line

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/03/a-parkland-right-winger-crosses-the-free-speech-line

After the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, FL., the NRA and right- wing media were desperate to defend the gun, which was unfairly being demonized by the left and its allies in the so-called liberal media, because as every gun nut knows, guns don’t kill people, gun nuts with guns kill people.

In Kyle Kashuv, a pro-Trump, pro-gun, pro-second amendment, anti-gun control right winger, the NRA and their unhinged supporters found their pawn, their hero, to parrot their pro-gun agenda, to deflect as much attention from the complicity of the NRA and federal law makers, and place the blame solely at the feet of local law enforcement, while they shamelessly attacked a group of teenagers who survived a school shooting, who didn’t share their enthusiasm for guns, calling them crises actors, idiots who had no idea what they were doing, pawns of George Soros and other gun grabbing leftists, Nazis, communists, and Marxists. They gleefully paraded him before their cameras, wrote breathless, gushing articles about how he bravely and boldly took on the anti-gun bullies on the left who couldn’t wait to call for a total gun ban, and smear the NRA and the politicians they really don’t bribe to support their pro gun agenda.

Kashuv exposed himself as a gun nut from the beginning. And since he’s been associated with the questionable TPUSA, he’s now been exposed as a bigot. I can’t say I’m surprised. And it’s also not surprising that conservatives would defend him.