Tag: National Rifle Association

Facts about guns and mass shootings

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Nine facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States Ezra Klein, washingtonpost.com When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid “politicizing” the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for “don’t talk about reforming our gun control laws.”Let’s be… … Continue reading Facts about guns and mass shootings

NRA hides under the social media covers

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

National Rifle Association disappears from Facebook and stops tweeting in wake of school shooting By T.C. Sottek, theverge.com The Nation­al Rifle Asso­ci­a­tion (NRA) — the largest gun rights advo­ca­cy group and one of the pre­vail­ing lob­by­ing orga­ni­za­tions in the Unit­ed States — has pulled back from its social media pres­ence fol­low­ing the New­town, Con­necti­… RT … Continue reading NRA hides under the social media covers