David Hogg: Americans Increasingly Buying Guns Because of Other Americans’ Skin Color, Gender

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HOGG: “I think it’s about fear. I think it’s about the fact that as a country oftentimes we would rather, unfortunately, turn on each other and point to someone’s skin color or point to someone's immigration status or their gender or their sexual identity and claim that’s the threat, when in reality we should all be working together against the sources of evil that are creating this gun violence and the injustice that promotes this gun violence and gun purchases in the first place. Because the reality is, what’s going to help solve the situation is not somebody buying another AR-15 or another gun. It’s going to be all of us working together to change the political system and the corruption and system of loopholes that has brought us to this place where a corporate — a corporate lobby essentially like the NRA is able to put such a — a chokehold on our elected officials that they're letting thousands of Americans die every year simply because they are more afraid of what the NRA will do in their next election than whether or not there is going to be another school shooting in their community or an everyday act of gun violence. That has to change.”