BuzzFeed Counting the Days of NRA Twitter Silence After Navy Yard Mass Shooting

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The mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yardis still unfolding, with twelve people confirmed dead at this point (including one gunman), and two suspects possibly still at large. The websiteBuzzfeed, however, is already tracking the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) Twitter response to the mass shooting, which, according to Buzzfeed‘s Andrew Kaczynski, typically involves long periods of silence.

The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut may not have resulted in federal gun policy as yet, but it did change a great many things, including the interval, after a mass shooting, at which it is acceptable to begin discussing gun policy. That horrific event, in fact, prompted Buzzfeed’s Kaczynski to begin tracking the NRA’s Twitter activity following mass shootings:

How The NRA Twitter Handles A Mass Shooting: Silence

The model is to go silent for at least a day, depending on the scope of the tragedy.

July 20, 2012, Aurora, Colorado, Theater Shooting: 10 Days Without Tweeting

Aug. 5, 2012, Sikh Temple Shooting: One Day Without Tweeting

Dec. 11, 2012, Clackamas Town Center Shooting: One Day Without Tweeting

Dec. 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting: Four Days Without Tweeting

are they waiting to see which way the wind blows before they say the same things they do after every tragedy, "buy more guns next time the mass killer might come to your school, job, home.

Navy Yard is across the bridge from my house not 3 miles i pass it when coming from the VA. they said he had a ar-15, shotgun, and handgun, is the security that lax, i've done appl. repair there they were not that strict as i have on all the bases in the area not that strict even when gate sign says 100% check,

same thing at the VA i see people come through hold up something that has to be to fast for the guard to really identify, carrying bags, boxes where anything could be hidden. what is a real security check, here in D.C. i worry while at the VA, and shake my head at other places what look to be a pass by indifference