- The national conversation about guns in America has been hijacked in recent days by a controversy between a Fox News host and David Hogg, one of the student leaders of the gun-control movement that erupted following February's mass shooting at a high school in Florida.
- Ingraham and Hogg traded barbs this week after the TV pundit personally attacked Hogg for complaining about not getting accepted into a few universities.
- But amid the feud, the debate over guns in America rages on.
- Here's what Hogg and other gun control activists are trying to achieve.
The controversy between Fox News host Laura Ingraham and a 17-year-old Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist whom she mocked on Twitter continues to make headlines.
On Wednesday, Ingraham tweeted a link to a news article about David Hogg having received rejection letters from several California schools and said he "whines about it."
Hogg picked up on Ingraham's comments, tweeting "Soooo @IngrahamAngle what are your biggest advertisers...Asking for a friend. #BoycottIngramAdverts."
Although Ingraham later issued an apology to Hogg, the damage was already done. So far, a dozen companies have withdrawn their advertisements from Ingraham's show.
But amid the feud, the debate over guns in America rages on.
Earlier this week, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote an op-ed in The New York Times urging a repeal of the Second Amendment.
Meanwhile, the Never Again movement, a gun control advocacy group formed by Hogg and fellow Parkland shooting survivors, continues its push for stricter gun laws.
Here's exactly what they're pushing for:
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