Hogg to Trump: 40,000 Americans dying annually from gun violence '.. good' national emergency

Hogg to Trump: 40,000 Americans dying annually from gun violence 'a pretty damn good' national emergency to start with

BY ARIS FOLLEY at the Hill

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/424285-hogg-to-trump-40000-americans-dying-annually-from-gun-violence

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Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivor and outspoken gun control activist David Hogg slammed President Trump on Tuesday for saying he may "call a national emergency" to build his long-desired U.S.–Mexico border wall.

“If we really want to start talking about the national emergency like the president likes to talk about, 40,000 Americans dying annually from gun violence is a pretty damn good one to start off with,” Hogg said during an appearance on CNN on Tuesday.

Hogg's remarks came days after the president said he was mulling calling a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S.–Mexico border. 

“We can call a national emergency because of the security of our country, absolutely. We can do it. I haven’t done it, I may do it. I may do it, but we can call a national emergency and build it quickly, it’s another way of doing it,” he said at a press conference Friday.

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