Current Events > Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg says he's survived assassination attempts.

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David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland, Fla., massacre who has become a highly visible gun control activist, claims he has been the target of an assassination attempt seven times the past year.

Hogg, 19, told The Washington Post in an article published on Tuesday that the attempts to end his life came from people who are "misguided and misinformed of what were actually here to talk about."

He said that if someone were to kill him because of his efforts to curb gun violence, it would most likely be "the stupidest thing they could do to try to end the movement. Because that would make it even more successful in the end. Because it would invigorate us and create f---ing change."

Hogg survived the mass shooting that unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018, leaving 17 people dead. In the aftermath, he founded "Never Again MSD," a student-led gun control advocacy group, along with other prominent student leaders.

The 19-year-old, who plans to attend Harvard this fall, recognized that Parkland students quickly started a larger conversation about school shootings and said it's "because were not vulnerable."

"What are you going to come after? We lost our friends in school that day. We lost our teachers in school that day. We dont have jobs. You cant come after our jobs that dont exist. And we arent afraid to call out the bulls--- and the real thing thats causing this," he told the Post.

Hogg said that in the last year alone, multiple people have threatened his life. He acknowledged it's "horrible that I have to live through this, and it is traumatizing."

"But you eventually become desensitized to it. Like, oh, your house got SWAT-ted. You got a call from the police saying someone said that everyone in your family had been killed and that you are being held hostage for $100,000. Right? That becomes part of daily life," he said. "Its just something that you have to get through. But I mean, what am I going to do? Stop?"

The former Stoneman Douglas student said he has no plans to end his mission.

"I want to go to school and, for lack of a better word, weaponize my knowledge and learn as much as possible to end violence."

Full Article: https://www.foxnews.com/us/david-hogg-parkland-shooting-survivor-assassination-attempts


I remember when the right turned him into a woman and then masturbated at him.

That confused the fuck out of me.

I have no surprise that some of those lunatics tried to kill him for the evil terrible of crime of surviving when someone tried to kill him.
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"If you keep saying bad things about guns, I will shoot you to death."
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Death threats aren't assassination attempts.
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Assassination attempts? Death threats is the better term in this situation. An attempt means he physically encountered someone trying to kill him.
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LightHawKnight posted...

Death threats aren't assassination attempts.

Thank you Captain obvious
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LightHawKnight posted...

Death threats aren't assassination attempts.

Agreed, although if his house was SWAT-ted then that rises above a mere threat-- that would be putting him in a volatile situation where there's a real chance of serious harm. The language in this article seems embellished to me, but the guy has still endured an unwarranted amount of harassment.
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Multiple people have died from swatting.
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Seven assassination attempts and it's just now news.

Riiight
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i believe this story!
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Oh look, it's this kid again
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It's not due to his gun control advocacy otherwise we'd hear about it a lot more, it's probably due to how he handles criticism (he is not a good person at all in a party where there are plenty of proponents of gun control that are decent people and need the exposure over him), you make enemies in some cases within your own political party when you don't protest in a sane manner.
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David Hogg almost makes people as angry as being the parents of murdered elementary schoolchildren.
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reported.
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So proud of this brave young man. Everyone should learn from him and adopt all of his political views.
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Why does he look like a 12 year old and a 75 year old fused together
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ThePrinceFish posted...

Seven assassination attempts and it's just now news.

Riiight

David Hogg has consistently been in the news since the shooting and half the time it's people being shitty to him

What are you on about?
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friendbuddypal posted...

So proud of this brave young man. Everyone should learn from him and adopt all of his political views.

Or just, not fly into a rage because a school shooting survivor has become an activist against the thing.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

ThePrinceFish posted...

Seven assassination attempts and it's just now news.

Riiight

David Hogg has consistently been in the news since the shooting and half the time it's people being shitty to him

What are you on about?

David Hogg has consistently been in the news claiming victimhood and displaying several symptoms of a martyr complex. Look no further than this very article where he explains how he imagines dying to achieve some nebulous anti gun goal.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

ThePrinceFish posted...

Seven assassination attempts and it's just now news.

Riiight

David Hogg has consistently been in the news since the shooting and half the time it's people being shitty to him

What are you on about?

He sure has. That's why as soon as the first one happened, he would have been all over the air. Him sitting on seven of them before talking to the Washington Post is the most out of character thing I've ever heard.
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This is nothing short of a miracle. He's survived more assassination attempts than JFK. How is he so strong?
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ThePrinceFish posted...

He sure has. That's why as soon as the first one happened, he would have been all over the air. Him sitting on seven of them before talking to the Washington Post is the most out of character thing I've ever heard.

friendbuddypal posted...

David Hogg has consistently been in the news claiming victimhood and displaying several symptoms of a martyr complex. Look no further than this very article where he explains how he imagines dying to achieve some nebulous anti gun goal.

Wow...

Just wow
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I'm getting really tired of these kids who used a school shooting to make themselves celebrities.
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Kolibri X posted...

This is nothing short of a miracle. He's survived more assassination attempts than JFK. How is he so strong?

Dawg....fucking what....
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Sativa_Rose posted...

I'm getting really tired of these kids who used a school shooting to make themselves celebrities.

How dare they not die and then state an opinion

Fucking entitled is what they are
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friendbuddypal posted...

David Hogg has consistently been in the news claiming victimhood and displaying several symptoms of a martyr complex. Look no further than this very article where he explains how he imagines dying to achieve some nebulous anti gun goal.

There is a subsect of people on the left who seem to fetishize victimhood and use it as a primary source for attention. Makes no sense to me, but neither does anything else this kid says. Or the fact that some adults take him seriously.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

"I want to go to school and, for lack of a better word, weaponize my knowledge and learn as much as possible to end violence."

Gen X's parenting has made Zoomers actually believe things like this are possible.
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What is it with the right wingers here and in real life that they have absolutely no empathy for anyone?

The first response they have for a kid who survived a school shooting is trying to make change happen is to attack and belittle him.
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Dude just trying to get that gun control groupie poontang
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LightningAce11 posted...

What is it with the right wingers here and in real life that they have absolutely no empathy for anyone?

The first response they have for a kid who survived a school shooting is trying to make change happen is to attack and belittle him.

Why would empathize with someone who exaggerated online death threats into "assassination attempts" for attention?
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deupd_u posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

"I want to go to school and, for lack of a better word, weaponize my knowledge and learn as much as possible to end violence."

Gen X's parenting has made Zoomers actually believe things like this are possible.

I think you're being hyper literal.

He's talking about gun violence and the sheer fact there's so much of it in the US yet so little of it in countries both with high and low gun ownership shows that it very much is possible to influence.

He's not claiming to pull a Star Trek Original Series alien race bullshit where he makes weapons and consoles so hot that all people are incapable of violence.
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LightningAce11 posted...

What is it with the right wingers here and in real life that they have absolutely no empathy for anyone?

The first response they have for a kid who survived a school shooting is trying to make change happen is to attack and belittle him.

They aren't attacking a shooting survivor, they're attacking an attention whore using the shooting and lying about attempted assassinations for personal fame. I can believe death threats, but seven attempts on his life? Bullshit.
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The Admiral posted...

Why would empathize with someone who exaggerated online death threats into "assassination attempts" for attention?

Because he was getting SO much empathy when he was simply the school shooting survivor who wants to talk gun control.
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I is smart posted...

They aren't attacking a shooting survivor

Yes they are

they're attacking an attention whore using the shooting and lying about attempted assassinations for personal fame. I can believe death threats, but seven attempts on his life? Bullshit.

wow... just wow
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*Person experiences a thing and becomes an activist in response*

"They're just a virtue signalling attention whore using it as a pretext for government takeover!"
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hockeybub89 posted...

*Person experiences a thing and becomes an activist in response*

"They're just a virtue signalling attention whore using it as a pretext for government takeover!"

Being a professional victim is only okay if you get banned on twitter or rejected from harvard for being a racist
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Right wingers have serious brain worms when it comes to this guy
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Sounds like he puts up with being swatted. Which technically could be called an assassination attempt as that has led to the death of at least one person. It certainly puts you in danger at any rate.
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"Listen to the kids, until they start criticizing our guns!"
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Solar_Crimson posted...

"Listen to the kids, until they start criticizing our guns!"

The folks who say "listen to the kids!" are the ones who usually hate guns already.

The folks who own guns are more the "kids should be seen and not heard" types.
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who ever thought "listen to kids" was a good start in the first place?
kids generally don't know shit
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Experiencing a traumatizing and horrible event doesn't magically make you an expert in something.

EDIT: Since I didn't realize what this topic was even about: Obviously nobody should be trying to execute an innocent person for practicing his right to be an activist.
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Swatting attempts can reasonably be argued assassination attempts.

It's a little dishonest, but more honest than the vast majority of right wing posters on this site.
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CapnMuffin posted...

Sounds like he puts up with being swatted. Which technically could be called an assassination attempt as that has led to the death of at least one person. It certainly puts you in danger at any rate.

I would agree swatting is no question technically an assassination attempt. That accident is a possible outcome when a person does something like that.
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Best part with these topics?
You see the true colors of some posters.
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The pro-life party hoping a school shooting survivor dies. Is there a single decent right winger?
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Tripping on the last step of a staircase is not an assassination attempt.
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Such a pity that he said this because the right wingers berating him for this would definitely support him wholeheartedly if he hadn't!
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Disrespector posted...

The pro-life party hoping a school shooting survivor dies. Is there a single decent right winger?

They only support life until the baby is born, then it doesnt matter how long it lives.
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If you SWAT someone, you're putting their life at risk whether you know it or not. We've all seen the vids of swat teams gunning people down despite following orders, or killing the family dog.
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