Erick Erickson

=== Guns ===
In December 2015, Erickson posted a picture of a bullet ridden copy of ''[[The New York Times]]'' that he had shot at. That day's edition contained a front-page editorial in favor of [[gun control]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/the-gun-control-debate-is-starting-to-get-out-of-hand/news-story/8c7d90bbca3fdfed48505080335173e9|title=This is how crazy Americans are|author=Young, Matt|date=December 7, 2015|website=[[News.com.au]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/erick-erickson-gun-new-york-times-6681537.php|title=Conservative radio host fires bullets into '''The New York Times''' gun control op-ed|author=Pereira, Alyssa|date=December 7, 2015|newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]}}</ref>

Erickson spread a false story by RedState which claimed that 17-year old [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting|Parkland, Florida school shooting]] survivor [[David Hogg]] was not actually at the Parkland school when it was attacked.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/us/parkland-students-hogg-gonzalez.html|title=Parkland Students Find Themselves Targets of Lies and Personal Attacks|date=March 27, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 28, 2018|language=en}}</ref> He later described Hogg as a "bully" after Hogg called for an advertiser boycott of right-wing Fox News host [[Laura Ingraham]] when she mocked him for not getting into a number of universities.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/media/laura-ingraham-apologizes-david-hogg/index.html|title=Laura Ingraham's apology to David Hogg has not stemmed the advertiser exodus|last=Kludt|first=Tom|work=CNNMoney|access-date=2018-10-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/375595-erick-erickson-florida-shooting-survivor-is-a-high-school-bully|title=Erick Erickson: Florida shooting survivor is 'a high school bully'|last=Savransky|first=Rebecca|date=2018-02-26|work=TheHill|access-date=2018-10-28|language=en}}</ref>