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10 Facts About Lauren Hogg

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Lauren Elizabeth Hogg was born on June 10,2003 and is an American author and activist against gun violence.

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Lauren Hogg survived the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018 and after became a co-founder of March for Our Lives and advocates against gun violence.

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Lauren Hogg is the younger sister of gun control activist and former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg, who survived the shooting.

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Lauren Hogg graduated from MSD High School in 2021, three years after David.

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On February 14,2018, Lauren Hogg was a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a 19-year-old former student of the school entered the campus and started shooting with a semi-automatic rifle.

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Lauren Hogg was in a television production class when the shooting started; the fire alarm was activated and she believed it was possibly a prank because they had had a fire alarm drill earlier in the day.

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Lauren Hogg went back to her classroom and unlocked a closet in the room and hid with other students.

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8.

Lauren Hogg reunited with her brother and father later that day.

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Lauren Hogg testified as a witness before the United States House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery in September 2019, following new legislation in the United States Senate that addressed school safety.

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Lauren Hogg describes herself as liberal and supports raising the purchase age of firearms from 18 to 21, because the shooter of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting was 19 years old and purchased the gun legally.