“Longmire‘s” Katee Sackhoff allegedly lost half her Twitter followers after she tweeted about gun safety recently.
Sackhoff tweeted this:
Seems pretty tame, right? Just a celeb passing along some information. No harm, no foul, right? Wrong.
Sackhoff’s Twitter exploded with a variety of comments. People critical of her tweet advocating gun control, not gun safety. She responded to some and politely reiterated, “Just to be clear … I NEVER said automatic guns should be legal!”
When one commenter said there should be no guns at all, Sackhoff replied that would be an impossibility, but that gun owners should practice safety and caution with their firearms. She tweeted, “Never gonna happen in the US. Proper gun safety is a necessity though.”
The original tweet supposedly cost her half of her Twitter followers.
Even though she chose her words carefully, it didn’t seem to matter.
Do fans need to lighten up? Should Sackhoff not tweet anything without consulting her publicist? The whole thing seems extreme. The woman is allowed her own opinion, after all.
What’s your take on this?
UPDATE: According to Reader Kate, Sackhoff never really lost half her followers, but has actually increased them since her now infamous posts, almost by 25%. See her stats here.
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