Author: Christina Zhao / Source: Newsweek
Parkland shooting survivor and gun control advocate David Hogg will be attending Harvard College next year after he spent most of 2018 rallying for gun control.
On Saturday, 18-year-old Hogg took to Twitter to announce that he had won a place at Harvard, saying he plans to major in political science starting in the fall.
“Thank you all for the well wishes, I’ll be attending Harvard in the fall with a planned major in Political Science,” he wrote.Hogg survived a mass shooting at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, where 17 students and staff members were killed by a former student armed with an AR-15 semi-atuomatic rifle. After the incident, Hogg and nineteen other Marjory survivors formed Never Again MSD, a student-led political action group advocating for stricter gun control laws.
Thank you all for the well wishes, I’ll be attending Harvard in the fall with a planned major in Political Science.
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111)
The activist previously suggested he would take a gap year to continue campaigning against gun violence after he became a prominent national voice on the issue. Earlier this month, he told The Guardian that he…
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