David Hogg Dodges on Whether Background Checks Would Have Stopped Parkland, Says Trump Should Call Guns a ‘National Emergency’

‘Bullets don’t discriminate and neither should our legislators’

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HOGG: “I think there's many instances and instances of gun violence that could have stopped further acts of gun violence. There's 40 acts of gun violence every year, a very small minority of them end up in school shootings. When we're talking about hardening our schools and different things, what we're not talking about is how to make our communities safer. We're talking about school safety we're talking about coming to and from school, outside their house. Our congressman and elected officials say they don't care about them before violence because of the zip codes they live in or bank account. If we talk about national emergency like the president likes to talk about, 40,000 people killed from gun violence is a pretty good one to start out with. It is bipartisan, I hope, because both Democrats and Republicans die from gun violence, bullets don't discriminate and neither should our legislators and shouldn't look at these laws and say I can't vote on that because I've taken contributions from the NRA. That's what they're thinking. American people need to wake up and see for example the shooter at our high school could have been prevented from security at our high school but didn't because of the NRA that actively try to stop these things from happening in the first place which they benefit from, after every single mass shooting, gun sales go up significantly and the NRA benefits from that.”

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