- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is hounding gun-control activist David Hogg on Twitter for a meeting.
- She described herself as "someone who has also been on lockdown as a student."
- A school spokeswoman said Greene was present at school, but not in the classrooms taken hostage in 1990.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is hounding gun-control activist David Hogg on Twitter for a meeting, suggesting she and the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting survivor share an experience because of a gun-related incident at her school when she was a student in 1990.
Following a recent spate of mass shootings, the far-right Georgia conservative and gun-rights advocate, who has harassed Hogg in the past, tweeted on Sunday that if Hogg wanted to fix the problem he would discuss "common sense solutions" with her. Hogg co-founded March For Our Lives after the 2018 shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when he was a student there.
The youth-led group is planning marches in DC and other cities on June 11 after mass shootings last month that killed 10 mostly Black people in a racist rampage at a Buffalo, New York supermarket, and 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Congress is poised to take action this week.
In her tweet, Greene described herself as "someone who has also been on lockdown as a student when the only madman with a gun is another student who wants to kill people."
She appears to be citing a 1990 incident at South Forsyth County High School in Georgia, where an armed student held other students from two classrooms hostage. No one died in the incident and students in other classrooms were evacuated and bused to a nearby elementary school, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
"Yes, she attended South Forsyth HS and was present at school that day, but she was not in the two classrooms that were taken hostage," Jennifer Caracciolo, the school's communications director, told Insider in an email.
—Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 5, 2022
Greene has previously referred to the incident as part of her call for eliminating gun-free school zones. She spoke about it again on Friday in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, calling it "the worst thing that could have happened to any of us and it was terrifying."
"There was no adult there with a gun in our school because our schools had turned into gun-free zones," she said. "This is because of Joe Biden and the crime bill that they passed back in 1990."
The school incident happened in September 1990. The 1990 crime bill, a package of bills which then-Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware sponsored as Senate Judiciary Chairman was signed into law two months later on November 29, 1990.
Before she was elected to Congress, Greene promoted a false conspiracy theory that Parkland was staged and was videotaped following and confronting Hogg in March 2019 as he walked toward the US Capitol, badgering him about his positions on gun safety measures and later calling him a "coward" after he walked away.
On Sunday, she went after him again on Twitter.
"I hear you & your girls are funded to come to town this week to once again try to manipulate some of my gutless weak colleagues to vote for gun control that will violate our freedoms and leave Americans defenseless," she wrote to Hogg. "I don't see you on my schedule, why not?"
Greene added that "it happened at my high school too, only we had no one" and she said, "gun control laws won't fix it."
Hogg declined a meeting, saying he's more interested in meeting "commonsense people who are looking for reasonable solutions to stop children from dying. Don't really have time to help you go viral for attacking survivors so you can fundraise."
He added a request for donations to support the group's June 11 march, since he said Greene was trying to use him as a "fundraising opportunity."