David Hogg

David Miles Hogg (born April 12, 2000) is an American gun control activist.

He rose to prominence during the 2018 United States gun violence protests as a student survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, helping lead several high-profile protests, marches, and boycotts, including the boycott of The Ingraham Angle.

He has also been a target and scapegoat of several conspiracy theories.

With his sister Lauren Hogg, he wrote #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line, a book that made The New York Times Best Seller list.

They pledged to donate to charity all income from the book.

Hogg was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018. He is a co-founder of Good Pillow, a Pillow manufacturing company, and the founder of the Leaders We Deserve PAC.

Before attending Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Hogg lived in Los Angeles, California.

He is the son of Kevin Hogg, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

His mother is Rebecca Boldrick, born in San Diego County, California and a teacher for Broward County Public Schools in Broward County, Florida.

Hogg chose to attend Stoneman Douglas because it offered television production classes.

He was a Teenlink reporter for the Sun Sentinel.

He graduated on June 3, 2018.

Hogg has dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Hogg was accepted to several universities but decided to take a gap year before starting college to campaign for the 2018 midterm elections.

On February 14, 2018, Hogg was a senior at Stoneman Douglas and on campus when a 19-year-old former student of the school entered Building 12 and started shooting with a semi-automatic rifle.

Hogg, who was in his AP environmental science class, told the teacher that the repeated "pop" sounds the class heard sounded like gunshots.

When the fire alarm went off, Hogg and other students made an attempt to exit the building, but a janitor instructed the students to go back into the classroom.

Hogg credits the janitor for saving them, as the group of students were inadvertently heading towards the shooter.

A culinary arts teacher pulled Hogg and others inside her classroom and they hid in a closet.

Hogg checked social media and discovered that the shooting was occurring at his high school.

He used his cell phone to record the scene in real time, to interview the other students hiding in the closet, and to leave a record in the event that they did not survive the shooting.

Hogg's sister, Lauren Hogg, who was a freshman student at the time, corresponded with her brother via text message while the shooting was taking place.

After about an hour, SWAT team police officers came into the classroom and escorted them out.

Hogg reunited with his sister and father later that day.

After the school shooting, Hogg emerged as a leader in the 2018 United States gun violence protests.

Along with Alfonso Calderon, Sarah Chadwick, X González, Cameron Kasky and other students, he turned to the media to talk about their role as survivors in the shooting and voice his opinion on gun control and gun violence.

He called on elected officials to pass gun control measures and has been a vocal critic of officials who take donations from the NRA, and he has been urging them to compromise on legislation to save lives.

Hogg joined the social media movement and student-led gun control advocacy group Never Again MSD shortly after its formation.

Hogg flew to Los Angeles on February 21, 2018, to be on The Dr. Phil Show, along with his sister, to discuss the shooting.

There, they met with survivors of the Columbine High School massacre.

Hogg, along with González, blamed the National Rifle Association of America and the politicians to which they donate as being complicit in school shootings.

He declined to go to the White House on February 21 to meet with President Donald Trump, saying that he had to be in Tallahassee, and that Trump could come to Parkland if he wanted to talk.

When Republican candidate Leslie Gibson, who was running unopposed for the Maine House of Representatives, described González as a "skinhead lesbian", and also insulted Hogg as a "bald-faced liar", Hogg called for somebody to challenge the Republican; Eryn Gilchrist, who was "horrified and embarrassed" by Gibson's comment, decided to run as a Democrat to challenge Gibson for the position, as did Republican former State Senator Thomas Martin, Jr., who said Gibson's remarks did not represent the Maine Republican Party and that he planned to contact the survivors to commend their courage.

Gibson dropped out of the race in response to public reaction critical of his comments.

Following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, David Hogg tweeted, "They can put up all the fencing around the capitol the real threats of @mtgreenee and @laurenboebert will still be inside until @GOPLeader takes a stand."

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) retorted, "Give your keyboard a rest, child."

Hogg was featured on the cover of an April 2018 edition of Time, along with fellow activists Alex Wind, Jaclyn Corin, González, and Kasky.

He began studying at Harvard University in the fall of 2019 and graduated in May 2023.

After Hogg's sister Lauren Hogg graduated from Stoneman Douglas in 2021, he and his family relocated to Washington, D.C.

A video of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) harassing Hogg in 2019 went viral in January 2021.