David Hogg Reaches Out to Gun Owners, While Also Calling Them ‘Weak’ for Buying a Gun
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Gun control advocate David Hogg went on a Twitter tirade this week against gun owners, calling them “weak” for purchasing firearms and letting the industry take advantage of their “insecurities.”
Hogg, who survived the Parkland school shooting in 2018, oddly put out a tweet only hours later reaching out to gun owners.
“Buying a gun does not make you a man it makes you a consumer, a cog in the system, one of millions having their insecurities weaponized for profit,” Hogg tweeted on Wednesday night in a thread. “You are being manipulated by marketing agencies because you are weak. Masculinity can not be purchased, it can only be practiced.”
Buying a gun does not make you a man it makes you a consumer, a cog in the system, one of millions having their insecurities weaponized for profit. You are being manipulated by marketing agencies because you are weak.
Masculinity can not be purchased, it can only be practiced.
— David Hogg 🌻 (@davidhogg111) April 7, 2022
He then added a link highlighting a Bushmaster advertisement referencing a “man card” next to an AR-15 rifle.
In a Friday morning tweet that was part of another posting storm by the young activist — where he also asked for donations for March for Our Lives — he reached out to gun owners “who the NRA [National Rifle Association] does not speak for.”
“Retweet this if you are a gun owner who the NRA does not speak for because you support gun reform,” Hogg wrote, adding that his father would share the sentiment if he were on Twitter.
My dad would rt but he is not on twitter
— David Hogg 🌻 (@davidhogg111) April 7, 2022
In another tweet, Hogg worked in Florida’s HB1557, a “Parental Rights” law, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” by critics, into his discussion of gun control. The law forbids classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender in kindergarten through third grade public classrooms. Critics say the law and its vague language could lead to discrimination, a point Hogg echoed.
“Regulate guns, not gay kids,” the activist, who has criticized the law in the past, tweeted.
