David Hogg Urges Greene To Apologize To Families of Shooting Victims
Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg is calling on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to apologize to families of shooting victims after expressing doubt over whether the events happened. She previously questioned…
Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg is calling on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to apologize to families of shooting victims after expressing doubt over whether the events happened.
She previously questioned whether the Parkland shooting was planned and called Hogg a “paid actor.”
Greene expressed support for comments on Facebook in 2018 suggesting the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a “staged” event.
She also considered on Facebook whether the Las Vegas massacre in 2017 was part of a conspiracy to enforce gun control.
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Friday asked Hogg about his thoughts regarding Greene’s suggestion she could relate to what he went through.
“The thing I care most about in this situation isn’t so much myself, but it’s the real people that she offended, which are the families in Parkland and Las Vegas and Sandy Hook that have a permanently empty bedroom, that have a permanently empty place at the dinner table,” Hogg said.
He continued, “They’re the people that are the real victims here that deserve the apology, not me. And that’s really what upsets me is that she’s detracting from their suffering and their experience because she can’t know their pain.”
Watch his interview below:
He argued she cannot know the pain these families have experienced because “they had the worst possible thing in the world happen to them.”
Hogg continued, “They are the ones that deserve an apology.”
Late last month, Hogg called on House Minority Leader