Hogg to Trump: 40,000 Americans dying annually from gun violence 'a pretty damn good'...

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



Hogg to Trump: 40,000 Americans dying annually from gun violence 'a pretty damn good' national emergency to start with

BY ARIS FOLLEY - 01/08/19 09:36 AM EST

Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivor and outspoken gun control activist David Hogg slammed President Trump on Tuesday for saying he may "call a national emergency" to build his long-desired U.S.–Mexico border wall.

“If we really want to start talking about the national emergency like the president likes to talk about, 40,000 Americans dying annually from gun violence is a pretty damn good one to start off with,” Hogg said during an appearance on CNN on Tuesday.

Hogg's remarks came days after the president said he was mulling calling a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border.

“We can call a national emergency because of the security of our country, absolutely. We can do it. I haven’t done it, I may do it. I may do it, but we can call a national emergency and build it quickly, it’s another way of doing it,” he said at a press conference Friday.

Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/424285-hogg-to-trump-40000-americans-dying-annually-from-gun-violence

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[RAB910]

1. Yup, unlike Trump, Hogg uses the term crisis/emergency correctly

[Traildogbob]

3. Real threats

I have been steaming over this BS for weeks now. Why has not one media segment mentioned this in response to trump. Saw a headline last night from Hannity, " Time for a wall to save American lives". Just ask, How much are you willing to spend on saving 40,000 plus lives a year from gun deaths? White male gun toten, knuckle dragging, mouth breathers are the real threat to American lives, not border crossing brown people. 5 billion could sure help families bury children and pay medical bills from school shootings

[lagomorph777]

9. Horrifically well-put: "5 billion could sure help families bury children..."

And welcome to DU!

[Achilleaze]

2. Thank you, Mr. Hogg

[PatSeg]

4. Good for him!

With young people like that, the future doesn't look quite so foreboding.

[MurrayDelph]

5. But the gun crisis

is mostly perpetuated by allegedly-straight, white, allegedly Christian males, so there's nothing to hang his hate on, which means they'll do nothing.

[EX500rider]

10. How so?

The CDC confirms that, following an extended period of general decline, the overall homicide rate -- as well as the homicide rate within each racial group -- has increased from 2014 to 2015. In 2015, the homicide rates were (per 100,000 population):

20.9 for blacks (non-Hispanic)
4.9 for Hispanics
2.6 for whites (non-Hispanic)
5.7 for all races

Compared to the national average, the homicide rate was 54% lower for whites, 14% lower for Hispanics, and 267% higher for blacks. Put another way, the homicide rate among African-Americans is nearly quadruple that of the national average



https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/08/10/african-american-homicide-rate-nearly-quadruple-national-average-11680

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6. Every Pro-Life supporter should get behind Hogg on this one.

Yeah, that'll happen.

[mainstreetonce]

7. When a tragedy brings an unexpected blessing

Parkland gave us the young voices we desperately need.
Thank you,David Hogg.

[MFGsunny]

8. K & R ..... kudos for staying every day o fight in the fray, David Hogg

[Stuart G]

11. k and r.