PARKLAND -- Students have been calling for gun control measures after last week's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead and some of those students are being accused of being "actors." 

Some of those students have been prominently featured on television, in articles and on social media posts in the aftermath of the shooting. 

However, some are questioning the authenticity of the students, questioning if they are, in fact, students at all or planted "crisis actors." 

Meanwhile, a Florida state representative has apparently fired an aide who emailed a reporter a claim that two survivors of a South Florida school shooting were actors.

Republican Rep. Shawn Harrison tweeted a comment that he didn't agree with the "insensitive and inappropriate comments" made by aide Benjamin Kelly.

Kelly later tweeted that he'd been terminated and said it was a mistake to make the claim in an email to The Tampa Bay Times reporter Alex Leary.

Leary tweeted about the email he received from Kelly. It had a screenshot of two Marjory Stoneman Douglas students being interviewed on television and said the students were actors.

Harrison said in his tweet that Kelly acted without his knowledge.

David Hogg, who has spoken regularly on TV since the shooting, has proclaimed he is not an actor. 

"I'm not a crisis actor," Hogg told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday. "I'm someone who had to witness this and live through this and I continue to be having to do that."

"I'm not acting on anybody's behalf," the 17-year-old teenager added.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio also came to students' defense, tweeting that claiming the Parkland students on TV are actors "is the work of a disgusting group of idiots with no sense of decency."

According to CNN, some are also accusing Hogg of letting his father, a former FBI agent, coach him to speak out against President Donald Trump — an allegation that Donald Trump Jr. endorsed on Twitter. 

On Tuesday, Hogg criticized those who amplified the claims and said it was disturbing that Trump Jr. liked the Twitter post. 

"Unlike the people who are tweeting that stuff about me and my dad, I haven't lost hope in America and my dad hasn't either," said Hogg with his father by his side. 

Responding to claims he is in favor of repealing the Second Amendment, Hogg said he doesn't "want to take a constitutional right away from American citizens."