Hogg Claims Trump Can ‘End’ Shootings, But Doesn’t Say How

David Hogg may have worn out his welcome within the DNC and even some gun control circles, but the liberal media still loves the failed pillow salesman, especially after there’s been a high-profile shooting. 

During a CNN appearance on Thursday, Hogg gave the network the soundbite they were looking for when he called Donald Trump a “coward” for not pushing gun control in the wake of the shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday. 

As Mediaite reports, CNN anchor Pamela Brown lobbed Hogg a softball when she asked him what should be done to prevent these types of shootings. Hogg offered no specifics beyond demanding that Congress spend more money researching “gun violence”, and quickly pivoted to attacking the president. 

HOGG: Well, I think first and foremost a basic thing that we — that Republicans and Democrats and Congress could do right now is in order to figure out how to prevent these shootings, you know what would be useful? Funding for research at the CDC and NIH.

This is the leading cause of death for young people in this country right now.

BROWN: Yes.

HOGG: And historically it has gotten barely any funding. Typically, it’s only gotten about $25 million, compared to the billions of dollars that most other causes of death get at those agencies.

We need more investigation and research into that, that we could pass simply as a reconciliation measure without having to deal with the filibuster with just 51 votes. That could be an easy thing that we could do, but also obviously more information is coming out about this.

But the bottom line is this. Donald Trump has the power to do something about this. After Parkland, he repeatedly said, “you guys are cowards. You’re not going to do anything because you’re afraid of the NRA. We need to do something about guns.”

That is what he said. And then he met with the NRA and did nothing. Why? Because he is a coward.

And my message to Donald Trump is that. You are a coward, sir! You are not going to do anything about this issue because you are terrified of the NRA, even though you have the power to save tens of thousands of lives.

You are the strongest president in modern American history, with a choke hold over your party and both chambers of Congress. You have the power to end this, but you are not going to because you’re a damn coward!

Brown did note that the Minneapolis police chief told her that there was nothing in the killer’s background that would have prohibited them from purchasing a firearm, and no one sought to use the state’s “red flag” law to take away their firearms, but she allowed Hogg to filibuster about Trump’s “cowardice” instead of pressing him to explain what gun control law, exactly, would have prevented this attack from taking place. 

While Hogg asserted that Trump is the “strongest president” in modern American history (a characterization I’m sure Trump agrees with), Barack Obama also had a Demorat-controlled Congress in his first two years in office, so he too presumably had the power to “end this”, at least using Hogg’s metric. 

Brown, meanwhile, could and should have noted that the number of mass public shootings has declined dramatically this year, a fact that Hogg completely ignored in his tirade. 

Democrats like Hogg have accused Trump of “cowardice” ever since he quickly backed off his comments in support of raising the age to purchase long guns from 18 to 21 and suggested that law enforcement seize firearms first and worry about due process “later” shortly after the Parkland shooting. 

In this case the killer was 23 years old, so Hogg’s age-based gun ban wouldn’t have prevented them from legally purchasing a firearm, and as the Minneapolis police chief has said, there was nothing in the killer’s behavior among family and friends that indicated he was planning on committing a horrific act of violence. 

I don’t know why Hogg didn’t simply reiterate his support for a semi-auto ban, especially since that’s emerged as the primary talking point of anti-gun politicians in the wake of the shooting. 

At today’s gun control rally, lawmakers demanded a ban on “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines.

Great. Let’s clarify:

🔹 What’s an “assault weapon”? Define it. Be specific.

🔹 What’s a “high-capacity magazine”? 11 rounds? 15? Why that number?

🔹 When you say “ban,”…

— MN Gun Owners Caucus (@mnguncaucus) August 28, 2025

Anti-gunners aren’t interested in having that discussion or providing those specifics in a public setting. They’ll lay out their definitions in legislation, but they don’t want a public debate over their demands. They want to convince voters that all they need to do is back these restrictions in general, and let lawmakers handle the rest. 

The truth is that even if every so-called assault weapon in existence today suddenly disappeared, the threat of mass shootings would still exist. The deadliest school shooting in U.S. history (the 2007 attack at Virginia Tech) involved handguns, not an AR-15. Columbine happened in the middle of the 10-year ban on “assault weapons” enacted during the Clinton administration. We cannot ban our way to safety, no matter how appealing that thought might be to some people. 

Remove the 400 million privately owned firearms in the country and melt them all down, and someone intent on mass murder could still use a car, as we saw in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, or a bomb, as we saw in Oklahoma City thirty years ago. This isn’t a hardware problem. It’s a head and heart problem, and the painful truth is there are no easy answers or simple solutions at hand. 

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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