Had similar thoughts as you. What makes this snot-nosed know-it-all a "survivor"? Was he wounded, but lived? Was he shot at by Cruz, but the shot missed? Was he in the building where Cruz was when the shooting occurred? Or did he wet his pants and run away when he heard the reports or got a tweet on the other side of the campus?
I hate the way the liberal media gives sympathetic labels to those in their favor. ("survivor", "dreamer", etc.)
The shooting happened at the freshmen building on campus.
Little Hoggie was hiding in a closet in a different building altogether.
It’s like saying someone who was ten blocks away from the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, is a survivor of the attacks on the World Trade Center.