Parkland, Fla.
Parkland survivor targeted: A police SWAT team descended on the home of Parkland survivor and prominent guncontrol activist David Hogg this week after a hoax 911 call reported that someone was in the house with a weapon. Neither Hogg nor any of his family was home at the time; the 18-year-old was in Washington, D.C., with his mother accepting a human rights award. The call was an example of “swatting,” in which prank callers attempt to get armed officers to raid a target’s home, with potentially fatal results. Police shot and killed an unarmed 28-year-old man in Wichita in December after they were called to his home during a swatting incident. Hogg is anathema in certain gun rights circles for his pugnacious activism in response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where he graduated this week. Hogg and other student activists with the March for Our Lives movement are planning a 20-state summer bus tour to campaign for gun control laws and to register young people to vote.