David Hogg Calls Out GOP Rep For Reiterating Mass Shooter 'Talking Points' In Hearing

Gun safety activist David Hogg interrupted a House committee hearing on banning assault-style weapons Wednesday after a Republican member argued Americans need more firearms due to an invasion of migrants.

You are reiterating the point of a mass shooter, Sir, Hogg shouted to Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.).

Hoggs high school in Parkland, Florida, was attacked in 2018 by a mass shooter armed with an AR-15 style rifle, killing 17 people. The killer had expressed racist, homophobic and antisemitic views on social media.

The shooter at my high school: antisemitic, anti-Black and racist. The shooter in El Paso described it as an invasion, said Hogg, also referring to the white supremacist views of a mass killer at a Texas Walmart in 2019. Guess what? Those guns are coming from the United States of America. They arent coming from Mexico.

The guns in Parkland, Buffalo, El Paso, didn't come from Mexico. They came from the US, and the shooters were inspired by racist, anti-black, anti-immigrant manifestos that rhyme with GOP talking points. pic.twitter.com/0D4QbHvu1t

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The guns in Parkland, Buffalo, El Paso, didn't come from Mexico. They came from the US, and the shooters were inspired by racist, anti-black, anti-immigrant manifestos that rhyme with GOP talking points. pic.twitter.com/0D4QbHvu1t
David Hogg (@davidhogg111) July 20, 2022

Hogg was escorted from the hearing room as he continued to assail Biggs. He said in a video posted later on Twitter that he had a duty to interrupt white nationalists when they spew harmful rhetoric.

The shooter at my high school was a 19-year-old American citizen, white nationalist, that espoused hateful rhetoric about immigrants, about Black people, about Muslims and Jewish people, Hogg said. He was able to legally arm himself with an AR-15. Stop saying these talking points that these mass shooters are using. Stop reiterating them.

Biggs argued after Hogg was removed that banning assault-style weapons would do more harm than good.