Agree.
There will come a breaking point with this stuff, and since it’s impossible to go back in time and provide the discipline and values that these kids needed 20 years ago, we’re faced wtih a Hobsons Choice: Either suffer through the consequences or try to find ways to deter some would-be mass killers before they act. (Note I didn’t say “pull the trigger” because we all know that knives, acid, bombs, cars, etc can equally lethal weapons).
Everyone agrees that these are learned behaviors, not one newborn baby is pre-programmed to become a mass murderer. So the challenge is to detect patterns early enough that intervention can be done, and the social media platforms are the best means possible to do that.
Monitoring gun purchases will just provide the names of millions of law-abiding citizens who are exercising their 2nd amendment rights.
Monitoring of comments and looking for trends on social media using AI and the same kind of algorithms that allow them to tell which purchase I’m likely to make next could provide some early detection. After all the “Grandma Story” that’s been posted on FR at least twice today is nothing more than a human doing pattern recognition and raising the alarm in time.
To those who say “Now I can’t support Trump” I say two things: #1, you never were a Trump supporter, and #2, you are an idiot.
Good post. Thanks. After reading some of the comments here on FR today I honestly begin to wonder if the average Freeper even has an IQ of 90.
The first thing that I would see happening is your name would show up on some kind of ‘do not sell guns to’ list. Please have your video camera rolling when this happens to you so you can set a calm example of how to act when your rights are taken by software written by a 25 year old leftist at google.
We need to stop worrying so much about the rights of the mentally ill and worry about the rights of others to be safe and lock up people who need it. Just as was done years ago.
We need to arm up so when someone decides to shoot people that person can be taken out. Just like in the wild west, we will have to civilize this country again.
I don’t see anything else working and I don’t see politicians supporting either answer so I don’t know where that leaves us but I don’t see other solutions that will work.