- Video surfaced again Wednesday on how Marjorie Taylor Greene harassed David Hogg in 2018.
- Greene is seen as the survivor of the Parkland shooting while walking to the Capitol.
- She also called him a ‘coward’ and said his silence was proof that he could not defend his stance on gun control.
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In a video that recently resurfaced, it is shown that rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene harassed Parkland School, who shot survivor David Hogg on Capitol Hill, shortly after the 2018 attack, calling him a “coward.”
Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was among the 17 people killed in the school shooting, said the video Wednesday on Twitter.
The video shows Greene Hogg tailing as he walked toward the Capitol in March 2018 to plead for gun control, a few weeks after surviving the February 14 shooting. Hogg was then 17 years old. Greene was elected to Congress in November 2020.
—Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) 27 January 2021
The footage shows Greene Hogg peppering with questions, asking why he uses children to advance his anti-gun agenda, and telling him that there would be no school shooting if more people carried guns.
Hogg ignores Greene’s questions and walks on in silence.
“Why use your children as a barrier? Do not you know how to defend your position? Look, I’m an American citizen, I’m a gun owner. I have a hidden carry-on permit, I carry a gun to protect myself, and you’re using your lobby and the money behind it and the kids to try to take away my Second Amendment rights, ‘Greene said in the video.
“You have nothing to say to yourself? Can’t you defend your attitude?” she continues.
“You know, if school zones are protected with security guards with guns, there will be no mass shooting in schools. You know that? The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun. “And yet you attack our second amendment. And you have nothing to say. No words.”
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Eventually, Greene stops following Hogg and turns to address the camera, complaining about how Hogg had meetings with lawmakers while she did not get one. She also accuses Hogg, without evidence, of being paid to lobby for gun control.
“Guess what, I’m a gun owner, I’m an American citizen, and I have nothing. But this guy with his George Soros funding and his biggest liberal funding got it all. I want you to think about it. It “He’s where we are. And he’s a coward. He can not say a word, because he can not defend his attitude,” said Greene.
Hogg responded on Wednesday to the video that went viral Twitter, saying it is an example of the kind of intimidation that fellow survivors experience under gun violence while trying to prevent other mass shootings.
—David Hogg (Hy / Hom) (@ davidhogg111) 28 January 2021
“As we fight for peace, we also face massive death threats and armed intimidation because we no longer want our friends to die,” Hogg said. “This is not the country we should be and this is not the country we should be.”
He added: “Part of the reason we were so calm [Greene] to harass us was because we had been through similar things so many times before. It was only on video this time – and they’re in Congress now. What you see in the video is about 0.1% of what we go through in a year. ‘
—David Hogg (Hy / Hom) (@ davidhogg111) 28 January 2021
Insider contacted Greene for comment.
Greene is one of the most controversial Republicans elected to Congress in 2020, thanks to her past support for the unfounded QAnon conspiracy theory.
Last week, school shooting survivors asked Greene to resign when a report found that she agreed with a message on social media claiming the Parkland shooting had been staged.
A CNN report published Tuesday found that Greene had previously shown support for the assassination of Democratic leaders such as former President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Earlier this week, the office of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he would speak to Greene about her “disturbing” comments on social media.