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In addition to campaigning for gun law reform, the teen survivors of the Florida shooting are dealing with trolls. The latest attack is from a viral tweet from Collin Rugg, a right-leaning political organizer who frequently tweets aboutthe February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that took 17 lives.

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  • Teenagers who survived the February 14 Florida shooting are campaigning for gun law reform.
  • Collin Rugg, a right-leaning political organizer, criticized them for expressing happiness sometimes and cast doubt on their sincerity.
  • Students who survived the attack ripped Rugg apart on Twitter.
  • A lot of other people joined in.

 

In addition to campaigning for gun law reform, the teen survivors of the Florida shooting are dealing with trolls.

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The latest attack is from a viral tweet from Collin Rugg, a right-leaning political organizer who frequently tweets about the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that took 17 lives.

Citing a video from when a group of survivors visited NBC's "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Rugg said it was odd that the survivors of the shooting were expressing happiness.

—Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 25, 2018

Several students called him out, accusing Rugg of trafficking in conspiracy theories that cast survivors of the shooting as "crisis actors."

—cat | #NEVERAGAIN (@ittscat_) February 27, 2018—Connor Dietrich// #NEVERAGAIN (@CDietrich1007) February 27, 2018—Sarah Chadwick// #NEVERAGAIN (@sarahchad_) February 27, 2018

Other people on Twitter joined in to support the teens.

—John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) February 27, 2018—MZS (@mattzollerseitz) February 27, 2018—Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) February 27, 2018—PeterNorway (@classiclib3ral) February 27, 2018—Michael Smith (@MikeSmith4Prez) February 26, 2018

Rugg and other supporters of the National Rifle Association — which prefers lax gun law and which the students oppose — have been mounting a sustained attack on the credibility of the students who survived the attack. They've done it by muddling the role of the NRA itself as well as spreading conspiracy theories that attempt to cast doubt on the role of the survivors.

Rugg, for example, has accused survivor David Hogg, without evidence, of getting "paid off" rather than being sincere in his convictions. (Rugg didn't immediately respond to INSIDER's request for comment.)

—Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 27, 2018—Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 26, 2018—Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 26, 2018—Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 26, 2018

 

 

But the teen survivors campaigning for gun law reform are unflagging. They've been resilient to older politicians and activists hurling insults at them, and they've convinced companies to cut ties with the NRA by threatening a boycott. They're not going away any time soon.

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