Posted on 08/05/2019 12:06:30 PM PDT by Pollard
After two recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, President Trump said his administration would ask social media companies to develop tools that could detect potential mass shooters.
While delivering a speech on the recent violence, Trump said we must do a better job of identifying and acting on early warning signs, and he suggested social media companies could develop new ways of catching red flags.
I am directing the Department of Justice to work in partnership with local state and federal agencies, as well as social media companies, to develop tools that can detect mass shooters before they strike, Trump said in the speech.
While the president did not specify what those tools might look like, Trump seemed to be suggesting that companies could use predictive software to single out potential shooters based on their activity on a platform. Crucially, this would mean taking action before a person commits violent crimes. Data-mining tools are in wide use, but creating a detection system for violence would inevitably raise a host of privacy and accountability issues.
I would rather spend that effort to be able to get dangerously mentally ill people institutionalized.
If a person truly is a danger with a firearm, they are also a danger with a knife, rock, hammer, infinite number of potentially deadly weapons.
We have to keep in mind the person is the danger. Impossible to take everything away from them if you don’t commit them.
Sorry I think I misread your post. I thought you meant all of that before removing someone’s firearms.
Small company is doing some of this. One was even on stage with Trump during the campaign. Prevented several school and other shootings. Couldn’t get funding to expand the effort though. Workers are mostly disabled veterans. A way to be useful from their homes.
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