David Hogg on Connection Between Gun Control, George Floyd: ‘Police Violence Is Gun Violence’

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HOGG: "Well, it's actually something — I’m glad that you asked that, because it's something that I think isn't touched on nearly enough, which is the connections between racial injustice and gun violence. I think March for Our Lives, and a lot of the gun violence prevention space as a whole too, but one of the things March for Our Lives specifically as a youth-focused — Gen Z-focused org, is that police violence, and specifically police gun violence is also gun violence and it still needs to be addressed in the first place. On top of that, we see ourselves hopefully as a supportive role, not one where we are part of what many young people call the nonprofit industrial complex, which is the system that just reinforces these power structures but doesn’t actually end up changing anything, at least in many young people's opinions.”