BELLEVUE, WA – The Democratic National Committee has just destroyed whatever remaining shreds of credibility it may have had on the gun issue by electing David Hogg, the 24-year-old gun control extremist, as its vice chairman, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.
“David Hogg has become one of the nation’s most extremely outspoken—and attention seeking—gun control zealots in recent memory,” noted CCRKBA Managing Director Andrew Gottlieb. “Since becoming a media darling following the 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, he’s been traveling the country pushing heavily restrictive gun control, which, he must know as a Harvard graduate, collides with the federal and state constitutions.
“He has claimed the Second Amendment does not protect an individual right to keep and bear arms,” Gottlieb continued. “Apparently he slept through his history courses, else he would have known the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled three times since 2008 that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental, individual right to own firearms, whether he likes it or not.”
Hogg was elected to serve as one of three DNC vice chairs, and he is the youngest person on that list. He announced his intention to run for the position last year, contending that his presence will help bring back younger voters to the Democrat Party after huge numbers of young adults cast their votes for Donald Trump last November.
“David Hogg has admitted on social media that he is ‘one of the most politically toxic people in the country’ and that he is ‘too radical for American politics’,” Gottlieb noted, “yet here he is jumping into the spotlight as vice chair of a political party.
“By going ‘Whole Hogg,’” he observed, “the DNC has not simply aligned itself with this show-boater, it has cast off any pretense that the party cares one whit about the Second Amendment rights of millions of Americans, including the young voters it now wants to embrace. Democrats marginalized themselves in the last election cycle with their radical anti-gun-rights agenda, which voters rejected. If they’re content to continue down that road with David Hogg in a leadership position, well, bless their hearts.”