Well-known writers, media personalities and relatives of gun violence victims posted passionate dispatches on both sides of the gun debate during Sen. Christopher S. Murphy’s filibuster Wednesday and early Thursday.

“Heard about
@ChrisMurphyCT
and his
#filibuster
and I feel like, for the first time in days, I am breathing,” Jared Frieder, a Los Angeles-based comedy writer, posted at 2:06 p.m., three hours after Murphy took the floor.

Sandy Phillips, whose daughter was murdered in the 2012 Aurora Colorado mass shooting, chimed in with a note of support. “I am a Republican Texas gun owner,” she wrote. “We Need Change. Supporting Dems on gun reform all the way.”

Heard about @ChrisMurphyCT and his #filibuster and I feel like, for the first time in days, I am breathing.

— Jared Frieder (@jaredfrieder) June 15, 2016

I am a Republican Texas gun owner…We Need Change. Supporting Dems on gun reform all the way #KeepGoing #filibuster https://t.co/cK0hUCJVub

— Sandy Phillips (@MamaRedfield) June 15, 2016

This #filibuster is like the greatest episode of West Wing ever made. #Enough

— Anne T. Donahue (@annetdonahue) June 16, 2016

I’ve never been so grateful to a bunch of white men who wont shut up #filibuster

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) June 16, 2016

I dunno, I feel like this whole gun #filibuster is eating up precious time that our politicians could put toward thinking and praying.

— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) June 16, 2016

If you aren’t watching the #filibuster you’re missing a chance to really feel good about our country — https://t.co/kGg9MtnQ6o

— Jordan Horowitz (@jehorowitz) June 16, 2016

Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, also prompted numerous missives from the pro-gun side, many of whom added the #2A, a hashtag used by supporters of gun rights.

“Brave Democrats filibuster on the Senate floor as men with assault rifles protect them at the Capitol,” wrote Katie Pavlich, a writer and Fox News contributor.

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Sam Janney, a conservative radio host who Tweets as @Politibunny, was one of dozens of posters to describe the filibuster as an attempt to take away a constitutional right.

“Republicans #filibuster to stop drones from killing innocents or to halt the overreach of govt.” She tweeted. “Democrats #filibuster to take our rights.”

A photo of an airplane flying into the World Trade Center on 9/11 accompanied many pro-gun tweets, to point out that guns were not used in that terrorist attack.

Brave Democrats filibuster on the Senate floor as men with assault rifles protect them at the Capitol https://t.co/Q7X6Sfwrg9 #2A

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) June 15, 2016

After watching the Demtard #filibuster on gun control today, I did what any #2a lover would do…I bought more guns pic.twitter.com/3NWoniYwEu

— HersheSquirt© (@HersheSquirt) June 15, 2016

The #2A protection of the right to keep & bear arms is not to protect the right to shoot deer but the right to shoot tyrants #filibuster

— Nick Short (@PoliticalShort) June 16, 2016

You can talk all you want. Our #2A is not yours to take away. #filibuster Come and Take It

— Reaganette (@Ezinger44) June 16, 2016

Republicans #filibuster to stop drones from killing innocents or to halt the overreach of govt.

Democrats #filibuster to take our rights.

— TheFOO (@PolitiBunny) June 15, 2016

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