Während des 117. US-Kongresses fanden 1.338 Massenerschießungen statt. Demokratische Mitglieder twitterten nach Massenerschießungen eher über Waffen als Republikaner. Demokraten neigten dazu, über Gemeinschaft, Familien, Opfer und Gesetzgebung zu posten, während Republikaner über den 2. Verfassungszusatz, Strafverfolgung und Kriminalität posteten.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1109416
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I’ve linked to the press release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0005493
From the linked article:
US Congressmembers’ responses on X to mass shooting events differ along party lines
With Democrat members more likely to post at all and to address violence, community, and legislature in their posts, and Republican members more frequently framing responses in terms of law enforcement and 2nd Amendment rights
Democratic congressmembers are significantly more likely to post on social media following a mass shooting event in the US compared to Republican congressmembers, according to a study published December 17, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health by Dmytro Bukhanevych from New York University, United States, and colleagues.
The authors focused specifically on X (formerly known as Twitter), in part because of X’s owner Elon Musk’s political work for the current Trump administration. They analyzed 785,881 posts from 513 congressmembers (262 Democrats and 251 Republicans) of the 117th Congress using X from January 2, 2021 to January 3, 2023. (Independents and congressmembers without X accounts were excluded from the analysis.)
In total, **1,338 mass shooting incidents took place during the 117th Congress**, and congressmembers made 12,274 posts containing gun-related keywords: gun, second amendment, 2nd Amendment, and firearm. The authors found mass shootings with more fatalities had a higher probability of congressmembers making gun-related posts, especially if the shooting happened in the members’ state. **Democrats were more likely to tweet about guns following mass shootings than Republicans (OR=3.60, 95% CI=[3.03, 4.28], p < 0.001), and the authors also found clear differences in post content between parties. Democrats tended to frame posts in terms of community, families, victims, and legislature, while Republicans more often addressed Second Amendment rights, law enforcement, and crime in their posts**.
Now which of those democrats actually introduced or co-sponsored gun control legislation after tweeting about it?
If you remove guns the bad guys will still have them. The good guys will be the only ones without.
Why are people bothering with reporting the obvious?
Democrats ONLY posted about guns after mass shootings – let’s be honest here…
Curious what percent of those 1338 mass shootings were followed with no related posts about guns by any congressmembers? That is not clear from the article. (It even appears that a significant chunk of the tweets about guns are not related to a specific mass shooting and are rather responses to tweets by other congressmembers?)
Just a caveat. The „1338 mass shootings“ statstic comes from the Gun Violence Archive- which has an extremely loose definition of what constitutes a „mass shooting“
I miss the 90s when we had more gun control and less gun deaths. Thanks for nothing Republicans!
How about we move from using political party to smart and dumb people. Smart people tweet that we need gun control. Stupid people ask for thoughts and prayers from Sky Daddy
It’s unfortunate most of the gun talk will be about restricting an important right and not the mental illness and other issues that create these occurrences.
This has a very good breakdown that appears non biased and well thought out. https://www.newswise.com/articles/mass-shootings-trigger-starkly-different-congressional-responses-on-social-media-along-party-lines-nyu-tandon-study-finds