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David Hogg's Anti-Gun Campaign 'Fades Into Darkness' As Millennials Embrace Second Amendment

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/response-david-hogg-why-march-our-lives-doesnt-represent-majority

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David Hogg is a professional anti-gun activist and current college student at Harvard. He's one of the founding members of the March for Our Lives organization, a non-profit that aims to seem like an organic grassroots movement of young people against firearms ownership, which is almost entirely propped up by donations from the top 1% of the country and billionaires like Michael Bloomberg.

"..younger people are increasingly opposed to gun control, with the percentage of people under 30 that support stricter gun laws dropping from 65% to 45% since 2018."

"Nationwide more than 9 million people became first-time gun owners in 2020 and 2021, which continues to rise."

"March for Our Lives is not a grassroots organization. Major million-dollar donations almost entirely fund it. Only 0.5% of their entire revenue is from donations totaling less than $5,000. Some real journalists looked at the group's 990 tax form showing that out of the $18.6M that March For Our Lives collected in donations during 2018, $17.8M originated from about 74 people donating between $5000.00 and $3,504,717.00."

"(If you dive into the data, 36 donors made donations between $100,000 and $3.5M, so maybe it's just 36 people who support Mr. Hogg)"

"The idea that gun owners will simply "die out" is false. As millennials get older and start to bear more responsibility in their lives (read: "The Trend Has Flipped: Millennials Are Actually Buying Guns"), the right to own a firearm becomes more and more important. The recent gun-buying craze (read: here & here) sparked by the pandemic and social unrest has begun to truly express younger Americans, minorities, and women's Second Amendment rights like never before. These new gun owners are across the political spectrum, suggesting that Hogg's movement is falling into darkness. "