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I think that's because Hogg is acutely aware of his white privilege. As brave as he is, he's saying nothing that black students at violence-wracked schools haven't been saying for decades. And he wants to use his voice to make them heard too.
This matters because white and black victims of gun violence often tend to see different solutions.

White students, for example, benefit from a "school security" approach. But for black students, this just ramps up racially-biased discipline and the school-to-prison pipeline.
A policy solution that makes white kids slightly safer, in other words, can ruin black kids' future and put them on a life trajectory to experiencing more gun violence.
There's only one policy solution that white and black youth pretty broadly agree will help safeguard their schools.

Gun control.
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