Conservative Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Kyle Kashuv got in a fiery exchange with Daily Mail editor Piers Morgan Monday.
Kashuv jumped in after Morgan, a vocal gun control proponent, criticized London Mayor Sadiq Khan for the rash of knife attacks plaguing his city.
Very disturbing.
This is happening on YOUR watch, Mr Mayor @SadiqKhan – what are you going to do about it? https://t.co/yUT3YaAYzN— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 1, 2018
Which begged a question Kashuv was only too willing to answer:
But Piers, gun control totally worked and made everyone safer! (It didn’t because criminals bought knives) https://t.co/w0Olon6AW7
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 1, 2018
Piers, I have the answer… #BanAssaultKnives they’re weapons of war
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 1, 2018
Seemingly unable to address Kashuv’s original points, Morgan shifted to America’s original automatic weapon ban.
Kyle, why did America ban automatic weapons if it’s only about the people not the guns? https://t.co/TORHpQWcyl
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 1, 2018
But Kashuv was ready for that one. Check out exchange below:
Machine guns are banned because we are allowed to balance the risks of members of the general public having access to rare weapons with extreme capacity to do damage. But the AR-15 doesn’t fall into that category because it is owned by tens of… https://t.co/zsHaL3b4CM
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 1, 2018
So just to clarify, you don’t think the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle that was used to shoot 34 of your fellow Parkland students & staffers – killing 17 – in just 6 minutes, had ‘extreme capacity to do damage’? https://t.co/Fi4pJ2Jg7s
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 2, 2018
First, it’s God awful for you to paint me like that. Don’t pin me with an awful notion that’s infers that me supporting my constitutional rights makes me okay with that type of murder.
Second, you’re again reading the Heller decision wrong. What made it legal to partially ban.. https://t.co/IVoSBbeYPc
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 2, 2018
Was that it is uncommon and can do unusual damage.
Your argument is flawed in various ofher ways: 1) it isn’t a full ban. 2) Handguns, per the DOJ, are the weapons of choice for mass murders and the AR-15 didn’t do any damage at Virginia tech, pistols did…
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 2, 2018
Unless you’re now going for a blanket gun ban, which many on the left especially my classmates say they don’t want, your argument is moot.
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 2, 2018
The two picked things up again with a discussion on the meaning of “well regulated militia.”
2A was about arming people as part of a well regulated militia – not as a bunch of unregulated Rambos. https://t.co/tyhVghImBp
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 2, 2018
So you don’t bother to read federalist papers? Not your thing? https://t.co/SOO7nKgRsh
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 2, 2018
Have you studied the history of 2A? Try reading up on it. It was never intended to mean an individual’s right to bear arms – outside of a ‘well regulated militia’. https://t.co/Xb6w9gGAbd
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 2, 2018
That’s completely and totally not true. You should try and read Federalist 46. Also, see SCOTUS ruling in Caetano and Heller. https://t.co/82APV1zcWI
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) April 2, 2018