Anti-gun activist David Hogg took a victory lap on Sunday after a group of bipartisan senators announced a framework for new gun control legislation.
“When senators reach a bi-partisan deal on guns for the first time in 30 years- time to celebrate with the breakfast of champions,” he tweeted with a milkshake:
When senators reach a bi-partisan deal on guns for the first time in 30 years- time to celebrate with the breakfast of champions. pic.twitter.com/i8dbkzgLKg
— David Hogg ☮️ (@davidhogg111) June 12, 2022
He’s selling the shirt, too, which includes a QR code that takes you to the March For Our Lives site where you can donate and register to vote:
My shirt can register you to vote via the QR code Buy it and support march for our lives. https://t.co/vnap7RjMbY
— David Hogg ☮️ (@davidhogg111) June 12, 2022
He did admit, however, that “this is progress even if small”:
Today a bipartisan group of 20 Senators (10 D and 10 R) is announcing a breakthrough agreement on gun violence – the first in 30 years.
Told you this time is different 🙂
— David Hogg ☮️ (@davidhogg111) June 12, 2022
And that “this is a first step”:
This is a first step and it’s actually a lot more than I thought it would be. This is progress even if small. Even if it stops one parkland it’s worth it.
Here’s more details link below— David Hogg ☮️ (@davidhogg111) June 12, 2022
According to Fox News’ Chad Pergram, Hogg and his group “held more than 70 bipartisan meetings on Capitol Hill to lobby” for this “lifesaving legislation to end gun violence”:
1) David Hogg: March For Our Lives youth activists and survivors held more than 70 bipartisan meetings on Capitol Hill to lobby for lifesaving legislation to end gun violence.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 12, 2022
2) Hogg: Our message was clear: we won’t continue to live like this. The U.S. Senate can show us that the message was heard by immediately passing this package into law.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 12, 2022
But The Federalist’s David Harsanyi isn’t buying it:
“It’s amazing to me how this ignorant kid who wants to overturn the second amendment is 1) treated like [a] statesman by frightened politicians, & 2) how the media repackages his rhetoric. It is *highly debatable* that anything he is advocating for is ‘lifesaving legislation.'”
It's amazing to me how this ignorant kid who wants to overturn the second amendment is 1) treated like statesman by frightened politicians, & 2) how the media repackages his rhetoric. It is *highly debatable* that anything he is advocating for is "lifesaving legislation." https://t.co/a4DnZX114R
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) June 12, 2022
Parkland parent Ryan Petty isn’t buying it as well and questioned why Hogg is supporting this framework as “this compromise has almost nothing to do with MOFL policy agenda”:
Anyone else surprised at how quickly de facto MFOL spokesperson David Hogg signaled support for this recently announced Senate compromise?
With the possible exception mental health, this compromise has almost nothing to do with MFOL policy agenda. https://t.co/tznTTb8lDb 1/ https://t.co/dblzaKzHZQ
— Ryan Petty (@rpetty) June 12, 2022
No, it does not:
It certainly doesn’t match the hyperbolic rhetoric from yesterday’s marches. 2/ https://t.co/sWNiZn9SgQ
— Ryan Petty (@rpetty) June 12, 2022
It doesn’t do anything Hogg and his crew wanted:
It doesn’t contain universal background checks, or an “assault weapons” ban that MFOL advocates. 3/ https://t.co/iEaGA6uaGM
— Ryan Petty (@rpetty) June 12, 2022
So, what’s he up to?
Makes you wonder… 4/
— Ryan Petty (@rpetty) June 12, 2022
Oh, and get your donations in, Hogg later tweeted:
Please support our work we’re team of young people and survivors who don’t have nearly as much funding as most national gun safety organizations
Please consider donating five or 10 bucks a month at https://t.co/xvWowr0Av7
— David Hogg ☮️ (@davidhogg111) June 12, 2022
It’s almost as if that’s *really* what the point of it all is, no? He knows they’ll never get passed what they want to get passed and the point of all of this is to just keep his group funded with recurring monthly donations.
Well, he’s learned the game, we’ll give him that.
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