NRA Still Silent; Deactivates Facebook Page

Last summer the National Rifle Association shut down a Twitter feed after the shootings in Aurora, Colorado. It’s be mute on its Twitter page, and now has shut down its Facebook page.

While the group has not commented since Friday’s tragedy, it appears to have staked out a strategy to take its brand out of the social media picture in the wake of a mass-shooting news event. Given its guns-rights cause, the social media buzz after such events seems to be an unenviable conversation for the org to partake in. The NRA’s chief Twitter account, which has doubled in followers to 63,000 since the Aurora shootings, has been silent since tweeting out a holidays giveaway contest early Friday.

Meanwhile, Facebook news feeds and Twitter streams have been inundated with debate about whether the nation’s politicians should enact federal gun-control legislation in reaction to the recent string of mass shootings. The conversation has ranged from typically political to thoughtful to downright ugly.

The NRA was unavailable for comment this weekend.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.