[Cabrera:] Some parents of students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are filing a federal civil rights lawsuit today which alleges several Brower County officials, quote, "failed to stop the shooter during that attack" almost 5 months ago. This as the same community, students and survivors has been working to turn their pain and experiences into a grass roots movement. They're calling it the "road to change" where they stop in cities across America to talk about gun safety, to help register people to vote. A few days ago, in Dallas students recorded an intense conversation with what they called counter protesters, called Open Carry Texas. They were challenged on things like mental health, arming teachers. And what happens next is remarkable.
[Unidentified Male:] Would it be accurate to characterize it what you are saying is guns are part of the problem, but it goes a whole lot deeper than guns. This is a nuanced issue. I think the easy access in some of these areas to firearms does escalate violence, especially in Chicago. Those 150 hours of training mean nothing. Because we don't rise to the occasion, you fall to your most basic level of training. Exactly. No amount of training can train you out of that instinct. That's my opposition to putting more guns in schools, which I'm sure you guys can understand, you know. I don't necessarily agree with it. I can see where you're coming from, I respect your opinion. That's fine. That's why I asked them from the get go what the agenda was as far as Democratic policies, they said they're not anti- gun. They're for common sense. That's why we have been debating. They're not trying to take guns away, that's what I hear anyways. You hear a lot of things from inside. This is what America is about. Come on.
[Cabrera:] Our revenge has ended. With me now, Matt Deitsch is a former student, one of those at the center of that conversation. Matt, you're in that video. We see it end with a handshake. Tell me what the man in red, the red hat, said to you.
[Matt Deitsch, Former Parkland Student:] The man in the red hat at the end of the conversation told me this was the most American thing he ever experienced, for us to come together, have a conversation about how to save lives. With counter protesters, there tend to be very few of them. They spout the same talking points as the NRA, same misguided truths. They attempt to sell us more guns. We tell them why that is not the way we actually ensure public safety.
[Cabrera:] Did you feel they were open to listening to you?
[Deitsch:] At first, they weren't because they spouted hateful things at our people coming to attend our events. We decided to try to engage them, talk about why they had so much hate. These groups are full of people who are racist, white supremacists, misogynistic. Come from a place of heavy ignorance. A lot of it is misinformation, misguided. Through education,
[Cabrera:] Did you have any eye-opening moments or as you've been traveling and talking to different groups, are you learning more about the other side of the gun debate and their point of view?
[Deitsch:] Here's the thing about the other side of the gun debate. A lot of the talking points are incredibly misguided, and we have to live in reality. We have to live in the country and what is happening right now. And what is happening right now is people are dying. 96 people die every day from gun violence. A lot of those are suicides and red flag laws, universal background checks can help save those lives, too. We tell you exactly how to come together and help save lives and so when we have the conversations, telling us arming teachers is the right way to solve the problem, that's giving up. That's saying there's no way to keep a bad person from coming into the schools and kill children. We say, no, this is not normal. We can stop this from happening if we talk about the policy that is will work.
[Cabrera:] Matt, thank you very much for your time.
[Deitsch:] Thank you so much for having me.
[Cabrera:] Coming up sorry, Matt. We didn't mean to cut you off. How a comedian duped Sarah Palin into an interview and how she is responding to it.