I always get a little skeptical about articles like this, and the motivation behind them. Are there Russian bots - perhaps, but they tend to sow discord. It wouldn't surprise me if some fraction of the anti-gun tweets are also bot driven.<p>But at the same time, I have gun owning friends, and they tend to circle the wagons when something like this happens. With 1 in 3 adults in the US owning a firearm, it doesn't take very many of them for there to be a lot of tweets against gun control.<p>To put their reaction in perspective, realize that since fame appears to be a motive in these shootings, the easiest way to stop this would likely be to pass a law to prevent the media from covering mass shootings, or at least the names and life stories of the shooters. And I think a lot of reactions here would be "we can't do that!", because of the first amendment.<p>That's how a lot of people feel about the second amendment.