Click "Read replies" below to get a sense of citizens' moods and opinions following the Governor's first online comments after the Perry shooting
diff --git a/twitter/script.js b/twitter/script.js index fbed5d3..6f41c25 100644 --- a/twitter/script.js +++ b/twitter/script.js @@ -94,4 +94,6 @@ d3.csv('Topic-histogram.csv').then(function(data) { .attr("y", 9.5) .attr("dy", "0.32em") .text(function(d) { return d; }); + + }); \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/twitter/selected_comments.csv b/twitter/selected_comments.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d21a36 --- /dev/null +++ b/twitter/selected_comments.csv @@ -0,0 +1,841 @@ +Source,Comment,Topic2,Select comment +Reddit,"So, despite what you might know, there is nowhere in the US you can buy a gun without a background check. It's federal law. Maybe there are some loopholes, but if you have a record it's going to be known when your paperwork is being done. Additionally, if you buy two or more firearms at once, the ATF is going to get a form with your info. At this point, they may monitor your social media if they can find it. Not 100% on that and I don't really care what their policy is. There aren't enough 'local authorities' to actually keep up with that monitoring. Red flag laws supposedly work where they are in place, but it's a system that can be abused very easily and there are questions about violation of privacy, and unlawful search/seizures.",Gun control laws don't work,x +Reddit,"It sounds like you have been listening to CNN too much. We don't have a gun problem despite what you have heard. We have a mental health problem. Just based on FBI stats, a person is much more likely to be stabbed to death or beaten with a blunt object than a gun, any gun. Even then, 60% of all guns are suicide. All rifles make up 4% of guns deaths and what you call ""assault style"" rifles make up a percentage of those, mass shootings a percentage of those, and school shootings a percentage of those. The chance is 1 in millions.",This is because of mental health, +Reddit,"Fact: Every time you leave your house, you are roughly 100X more likely to be killed by a drunk driver than by a mass shooter. One. Hundred. Times. More. Likely. There are more than 10,000 killed by drunk drivers in the US every year — more than 27 a day, every, single, day. Mass shootings are virtually non-existent by comparison. So if you are going to lose sleep, lose sleep over drunk drivers. If you want to ban something and have it actually make a difference, ban alcohol.",, +Reddit,"Very complex issue. Unfortunately, even if all these things went right and worked, we'd still have mass shootings. Why is that? Million dollar question. Is it guns? I don't think so. Is it mental health? Maybe. The economy screwing people over? That happens, but then why harm so many others? Maybe it's a combination. Maybe there's an underground terror ring that wants us all disarmed... alright no tin foil hats lol.",We don't have enough data,x +Reddit,"Don't take you legal knowledge from TV or movies. Writers can only knowledgably write about things they know about, and then follow cliches for what they don't. The amount of fertilizer that you need to buy in the US to get put on any kind of RADAR is crazy high: it is typically more than the typical garden supply store will have on hand and of a specific kind that isn't available at the majority of them anyway.",, +Reddit,"What you are recommending definitely violates the 4th (searches and seizures) and 5th (due process - innocent until proven guilty) amendments. In the US, law enforcement is not permitted to snoop on people unless there has been a quantifiable belief that they are committing a crime, not just they ""could be"" committing a crime. You are proposing that someone that simply ""could"" commit a crime be investigated.",, +Reddit,"There's nothing in the 2nd amendment that says what I'm suggesting is a violation. Having and owning a gun is a big responsibility, in fact, you have God's power when you wield a gun, because God has the power to take someone's life, and you as a gun owner have that power too, and as Spider-Man says, ""With great power comes great responsibility,"" and I feel like most Americans take that power for granted.",, +Reddit,"Also, it's worth it to point out that in terms of risk, your nephew is far more likely to be injured in a lightning strike than die in a school shooting. School shootings (like the type you are imagining, the numbers on this being such a rare event are easily manipulated) are incredibly rare. I forget the statistic but he is in multiple times the amount of danger riding in a car vs school shootings.",, +Reddit,"Pretty much everything you just said is a violation of the second, fourth, and fifth amendment. Police don't get to ask me about my purchases because I haven't committed a crime. Per the Constitution, the police are not even supposed to look aty activity unless they have evidence that I have committed a crime. Also, per the Constitution, I am under no obligation to answer any questions.",, +Reddit,"So since you have nothing to hide, you would be fine with your Countries IRS looking at all your bank information and searching your house? Since you have nothing to hide you would be fine with the police searching your car and house whenever they want? You would be fine with the police being allowed to put a tracker on your phone and search your phone and computer whenever they want?",, +Reddit,"Now, for me, the only people that would be against the local authorities snooping on them when they buy lots of guns and ammo, especially assault style ones, are those with something to hide, those with criminal records, if you are a law abiding citizen with no criminal record, then you'd welcome the authorities looking you up, because you have nothing to hide.",, +Reddit,"As a liberal atheist gun owner, and near 2A absolutist, guns are a big responsibility to be soberly and strictly protected in the home. The government has absolutely no business harassing or questioning what is, in our ultimate legal document, a 100% legal behavior, regardless of the type, number, configuration, appearance, etc of that type of arm.",Protect gun rights, +Reddit,"How would you like to be that one federal agent? The one that goes around asking everyone about stuff they bought that's none of their business? I figure that would be the one guy that nobody liked. ""Hey make Phil do it, I'm tired of telling him to go fuck himself, let's put that burden on society today and have some peace around the office"".",Protect gun rights, +Reddit,You do realize you are more likely to be struck by lightning then die in a school shooting right? Why not be worried about thunderstorms? The only reason why you think guns are so dangerous is because you are the victim of a media propaganda campaign to convince people to willingly give up their right to self defense.,, +Reddit,"Also, ""assault-style"" is a term devoid of meaning in a legal or practical sense. It's a nebulous term that people who find guns personally disagreeable use to make things more emotionally charged. There is no appreciable difference between the category ""assault style"" and ""non-assault style"" on a practical level..",, +Reddit,"TL;DR Authorities are already spread too thin to monitor every new AR owner. It's a very complex problem and nobody has an answer that would please everybody, and there's serious concerns about privacy and rights being violated in an irreversible way, without knowing those measures would even help.",, +Reddit,"They also have to guarantee you a speedy and public trial. They can't hold you in secret and not hold a trial. They also can't use secret witnesses, and you have the right to see all of the evidence against you. Again, criminals have been set free because the Government didn't follow the rules.",, +Reddit,"You either respect the right to privacy or you don't. Using the ""You would only care if you had something to hide"" line is weak. Would you be fine with the police being able to search your house whenever? If not, then you might understand. If you don't mind, then we simply disagree.",Protect gun rights, +Reddit,"What quantifies ""a lot of"" A lot to me is different than you. When I was thinking I was going to be a competitive shooter I shot 200 rounds a day minimum. Sounds like a lot? I bough ammo by the case every week. Plus more if I was ""just having fun"" or having some friends over.",, +Reddit,"Psychpaths will kill no matter what if it's in their twisted mind to do so. And they will use whatever means necessary, like knives, bombs, or gasoline. Where do you start with ""notifying the police""? More importantly, where do you stop? It's not a Second Amendment issue.",This is because of mental health,x +Reddit,"Similarly, should the government be informed when I buy ""a large amount"" of gasoline? What is ""a large amount"" and who gets to say? I used to have a minibike and kept a 5 gallon can of gas. Sometimes I'd fill up mine and my friends. Should the police have been notified?",, +Reddit,Your nephew has a much higher chance of being run over in the street by a drunk driver than he has being even at a school that has an active shooter event. A combination of the size of the US and the media overplaying them makes them seem like an everyday event here.,, +Reddit,"Having and owning a gun is a big responsibility, in fact, you have God's power when you wield a gun, because God has the power to take someone's life, and you as a gun owner have that power too, and as Spider-Man says, ""With great power comes great responsibility,""",It's a societal decline problem,x +Reddit,"If you weaken the right to keep and bear arms, you can by analogy do the same exact thing to all of the other rights. The Bill of Rights is not ala carte: You don't get to pick and choose which rights you can protect and which ones you can let fall by the wayside.",Protect gun rights, +Reddit,"In addition to the whole ""if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have to worry"" problem, you should probably familiarize yourself with the existing laws and regulations that are already in place. I know everyone on the internet is an expert but seriously.",Protect gun rights, +Reddit,"And the majority of the people who do that kind of thing are likely to be collectors. I mean, honestly, you can't wield more than two guns at once, and if you want to hit anything and you aren't Jerry Miculek, you can basically only wield one at a time anyway.",, +Reddit,Your nephew will be fine. Most school shootings are usually two adults at a football game who get into an argument. Targeted mass shootings like sandy hook are much more rare and your nephew is more likely to be hit by a car than be shot by any gun at his age.,, +Reddit,"Actually, the Second Amendment prevents that in the same way that the First Amendment prevents the government from spying on you or putting you on a list because you bought a book or books of a certain type, or joined a certain church or organization.",, +Reddit,"What do you mean by a lot of ammo? I'm genuinely curious. Most people that can afford it go through a thousand rounds in a single range day. I know I do. If you are questioning every person who does that, you will need massive resources and manpower.",, +Reddit,And those that report school shootings lack ethics on what they report. A bus window is broken by a BB (2mm hard sphere)? It’s a school shooting. Two teachers have a fling & one brings a gun & shoots the other? It’s counted as a school shooting.,, +Reddit,"<<