{"id":123255,"date":"2020-01-29T21:09:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T02:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=123255"},"modified":"2020-01-29T21:09:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T23:29:57","slug":"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That &#8216;Indigenous LGBTQ Women&#8217; Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hogg-bawn.gif\" alt=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\" class=\"wp-image-111201\" \/><figcaption><em>Hogg hasn&#8217;t even bothered to defend his bizarre tweet. (Photo: BAWN Youtube)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that didn\u2019t take long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After only one\nsemester at Harvard University, anti-gun activist David Hogg has already\nstarted making bizarre claims about race, history, and gun control. It\u2019s not\nthe 19-year-old\u2019s first off-the-wall comment (far from it), but this revisionist\nhistory sounds like something that can only originate in our centers of higher\nlearning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tweet\nposted earlier this week, Hogg appeared to claim that the \u201cgun violence\nprevention movement\u201d was started \u201ccenturies ago\u201d by \u201calmost entirely black,\nbrown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is a tweet for for the founders of the gun violence prevention movement started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people that never got on the news or in most history books. <br \/><br \/>We may not know all your names but thank you.<\/p>\u2014 David Hogg (@davidhogg111) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidhogg111\/status\/1221645982187823110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\">January 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<p>As noted by the\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/david-hogg-minorities-and-non-binary-people-founded-the-gun-control-movement-centuries-ago\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\">Washington\nExaminer<\/a>, Hogg has a history of making strange connections between the gun\nrights debate and racial issues. Last year he said in an interview with MSNBC\nthat pro-gun culture has roots in genocide and white supremacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think\nit comes down to reckoning with our history and our history of white supremacy\nin the United States and the fact that we live in a post-genocidal society\noftentimes that was orchestrated by the United States government,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/david-hogg-gun-czar-government-youth-organization-gun-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\">David Hogg Calls for a Gun Czar, Buy Back, Government Youth Organization to Combat Gun Violence<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hogg did not clarify his claim in subsequent tweets, and he hasn\u2019t responded to the thousands of (hilarious) replies. Check out a few of our favorites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s a national embarrassment that ABC News or the New York Times never even interviewed those Native American lesbians when they were fighting for musket control in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Criminal, even.<\/p>\u2014 Shane Styles (@shaner5000) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shaner5000\/status\/1221851749255909377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\">January 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Crazy that I\u2019m an American History major, and never knew about these herds of non binary LGBT indigenous women roaming the plains, that hated guns and \u201cnever got on the news\u201d all these \u201ccenturies ago.\u201d \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\u2014 Mindy Robinson \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@iheartmindy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iheartmindy\/status\/1221852323216969728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\">January 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So would Ida B. Wells <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zQVuS3qo5Y\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\">pic.twitter.com\/zQVuS3qo5Y<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Jennifer Oliver O&#8217;Connell (@asthegirlturns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asthegirlturns\/status\/1221924443594739713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\">January 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<p>If it isn\u2019t already obvious, gun control didn\u2019t originate in \u201cnon-binary\u201d communities in the 1800\u2019s. In fact, gun control has a long history of racial discrimination, as we\u2019ve covered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/gun-controls-racist-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/eric-holder-racist-anti-gun-rant-victimizes-minorities-editorial\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/problem-black-people-inner-city-gun-violence-obama-bloomberg-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After slavery was outlawed, many gun-control laws were written with the sole intent of restricting gun ownership for African Americans. That mindset has continued in more recent years with the prohibition of cheap firearms (e.g., \u201cSaturday Nigh Specials\u201d), and may-issue concealed carry permit laws that allow law enforcement to deny the right to bear arms to certain groups of people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/hogg-new-zealand-gun-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\">David Hogg Praises New Zealand Gun Ban, Chides U.S. Government \u2018Owned\u2019 By Gun Makers<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth is, the right to keep and bear arms was a critical component of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, and both <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/14\/reminder-guns-helped-secure-the-freedom\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., obtained gun licenses<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s unclear who or what Hogg is referencing in his tweet, but it\u2019s a historical fact that most \u201cindigenous women\u201d in our country\u2019s history would have appreciated less gun control, not more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll leave you with one last reply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This guy would have loved an AR <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S4jHkYRngs\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\">pic.twitter.com\/S4jHkYRngs<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Dave las (@Aetnerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aetnerd\/status\/1221927798631256074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"david-hogg-tweets-bizarre-claim\" title=\"David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That 'Indigenous LGBTQ Women' Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800's\">January 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_SHOT2020\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica! 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