Gun Control Questions

Many of the first tweets in response to the news of the shooting in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, 2012, called for a focus on gun control. This image has made the rounds widely on social media platforms.

As news of the mass shooting of 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn. spread on Friday, so did the social media reaction. Many shared their thoughts, sympathies and photos of the community in shock; others expressed their astonishment and disgust at the shooter.

Twitter and Facebook have now become go-to destinations for the public to share news and their reaction to it. That's not new -- there was a similar reaction after such events as the movie theater shooting in Colorado in July. But this time there was more than just mourning and sympathy for the families that spread.
There was louder talk of social and policy change. Voices hoping to effect change to prevent tragedies like this in the future.

 

A Call for Gun Control

Many of the first tweets in response to the news called for a focus on gun control. "Twitter unified calling upon @BarackObama for real gun control now http://uniteblue.com/guns/, " Zach Green, @140elect, tweeted.

A number of celebrities also tweeted about the issue. "Our thoughts go to every family who lost a loved one http://virg.in/otg #guncontrol #newtown," entrepreneur Richard Branson tweeted on Friday. According to Topsy, a social analytics service, there were over 80,000 mentions of "gun control" on Twitter on Dec. 14, the day of the Connecticut shootings. The NRA (National Rifle Association) was mentioned over 23,000 times on Friday as well. On Facebook, many shared similar thoughts and feelings as well as images of gun statistics, including how many people were killed by handguns in other countries.

There was discussion of the topic, but there was also pressure to do more. A petition to "Set a date and time to have a conversation about gun policy in the United States" on the petitions.whitehouse.gov website circulated on both Twitter and Facebook. As of this writing, it had 22,000 signatures.

Another petition on the White House site calling for the Obama Administration to "immediately address the issue of gun control through the introduction of legislation in Congress" also circulated and had received more than 140,000 signatures as of Monday afternoon. It has been one of the fastest moving petitions on the site ever.

"We are seeing a continuation of people turning to social networks as the new public square, the place you go for information to norm with people, but increasingly now, to make more of a political statement," Alison Fine, author of "The Networked Nonprofit," told ABC News.

 

The call for gun control and social media attacks of the NRA have met with opposition, but as of Monday afternoon, the NRA had not posted on its social media accounts since the Newtown shootings.

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