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I'm Tanya Mosley and my guest today is gun control activist David Hogg.

The spring hog graduated from Harvard University five years after surviving one of the

deadliest school shootings in American history.

In 2018, 17 people were killed and 17 others injured at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in

Parkland, Florida after a former student went on a shooting rampage.

Hogg, who was a senior at the time, was in his AP Environmental Sciences class when he

hurt the gunshots.

He credits a janitor who directed him in several other classmates to hide in a closet with

saving his life.

Hogg and several other classmates became the face of the tragedy.

Here is Hogg a day after the shooting speaking to CNN.

We're children.

You guys are like are the adults.

Soon after Hogg and several other students created March for our lives, a youth led effort

to eliminate the epidemic of gun violence.

More than 800,000 people marched in DC a month after that shooting.

And speaking to the crowd, Hogg said, when politicians send their thoughts and prayers with no action,

we say no more.

In 2018, Hogg co-wrote a book titled Never Again, a new generation draws the line with

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