Following a school shooting at Freeman High School in Rockford, Washington in 2017, Knezovich held a press conference in which he blamed the media and elected officials for "a counterculture of violence, a culture that is enamored with school shooting." He also criticized violent video games and gang culture, while asserting that guns were not to blame. Knezovich had previously blamed the media and activists for violence following the 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers.