35 Facts About Kyle Kashuv

Kyle Kashuv was born on May 20,2001 and is an American conservative activist.

Kyle Kashuv survived the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and subsequently advocated for gun rights, notably in opposition to his fellow survivors' March for Our Lives movement.

On February 14,2018, Kashuv was present at the school where the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting occurred.

Kyle Kashuv was 16 years old, attending his junior year.

Kyle Kashuv later petitioned President Donald Trump to award Peter Wang, a student who had helped several others escape before he was killed, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Kyle Kashuv explained that he wanted to learn the "physical mechanics" of guns and how to defend himself, as well as to "show people it's people that are the issue, not guns".

Kyle Kashuv said other students told him that Pittman called him the "next Hitler" while discussing the photo.

Kyle Kashuv was initially guided by conservative commentators Ben Shapiro and Guy Benson.

Kyle Kashuv worked for Ron DeSantis's campaign in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election.

In July 2018, Kyle Kashuv gave a speech at the 2018 National Western Conservative Summit.

Kyle Kashuv gave a speech in April 2019 at the yearly meeting of the National Rifle Association of America.

The Miami Herald in July 2018 wrote that the conservative Second Amendment supporter Kyle Kashuv had "gained a national following as a counterweight to the March For Our Lives" movement.

Kyle Kashuv became director of high school outreach of the conservative group Turning Point USA and gave speeches about gun rights, including at Princeton University.

Kyle Kashuv invited Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk to address Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, but the school did not permit the activity.

Kyle Kashuv helped to plan the organization's 2018 High School Leadership Summit for over 800 students, and was lauded by Fox News in July 2018 as "a role model for young conservatives across the country".

Kyle Kashuv resigned from Turning Point in May 2019, hours after former classmates threatened to make public screenshots of racist remarks Kashuv had made.

Kyle Kashuv denied that his resignation was related to his racist remarks.

Kyle Kashuv endorses the idea that "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"; he has advocated for schools to eliminate gun-free zones, and for policies allowing teachers and school staff to be armed.

Kyle Kashuv said he agrees with fellow student activists David Hogg, Cameron Kasky and Emma Gonzalez that gun deaths and school shootings need to be stopped, "and that shouldn't be delegitimized, ever".

Kyle Kashuv's stated solutions to improve the situation differ from Hogg and Kasky's, but he has called for a debate with them to find "common middle ground".

Kyle Kashuv has described himself as speaking "calmly and logically" in contrast to "inflammatory language" used by other student activists.

Kyle Kashuv believed that the "initial movement, in its purest form" coming out of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting "was amazing".

Kyle Kashuv himself was criticized by the students in Never Again MSD for his views on gun rights.

In late March 2018, Kyle Kashuv was criticized online by Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald.

Kyle Kashuv's parents emigrated to the United States from Israel in the 1990s before he was born.

Kyle Kashuv did not have a tuxedo or airplane fare to get to Nebraska, so she set up a GoFundMe account, which raised the necessary money in two hours.

Kyle Kashuv accompanied her to her prom, and met with Nebraska governor Pete Ricketts.

Several of Kyle Kashuv's classmates complained on social media and to the press regarding Kyle Kashuv's alleged use of inflammatory and racist comments, including racial slurs against African-Americans.

Kyle Kashuv was accused by his classmates of hypocrisy when he criticized Bill Nye for using vulgarities in a skit regarding climate change on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, stating that Nye "looked like a joke".

On May 22,2019, Kyle Kashuv released a statement about the screenshots and the comments within, admitting to writing the comments when he was 16 years old before the mass shooting occurred.

On June 17,2019, Kyle Kashuv stated that the comments were made "months before the shooting", and said that Harvard University had rescinded its offer of admission as a result of the remarks.

Kyle Kashuv published a letter by Harvard, which stated that they had considered "the qualities of maturity and moral character" in their decision.

Kyle Kashuv has accused unidentified political opponents of having urged Harvard not to accept him.

Kyle Kashuv has said he would have to reapply to other colleges because it was too late to accept other offers.

Kyle Kashuv had originally intended to take a gap year before matriculating into Harvard.