Posted on 09/18/2019 5:20:51 AM PDT by rellimpank
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But under the hastily concocted proposal the president promoted last week, researchers would examine whether small changes in the behavior of mentally ill people could predict violence. Shades of “Minority Report,” the 2002 sci-fi movie about a dystopian near-future where cops preemptively arrest people they predict will commit murder.
The Washington Post reported last week that the proposal to study the possibility of pre-violence detection technology was generated by advocates for a proposed Health Advanced Research Projects Agency at the request of Ivanka Trump and others interested in exploring out-of-the-box ideas for fighting the epidemic of mass shootings. HARPA would be modeled on DARPA, which gave us the internet, and indeed may well prove capable of yielding useful technology to combat a range of diseases. And research into violent behavior is much needed, and potentially valuable.
(Excerpt) Read more at madison.com ...
America does NOT have a “gun” problem. The numbers cited by the Left to justify calls for gun control are based on two broad categories of deaths: Suicide and Murder.
Suicide is a mental health issue as guns are only one of several tools used to commite suicide.
Murder or violent crime is already illegal. It accounts for roughly 12,000 deaths per year. The majority of these deaths are gang members killing each other and further, these crimes are focused in 5 counties out of 3,141 counties in the US.
Also, guns are used defensively in over 2 million instances each year. I am NOT willing to condem those 2 million citizens to be victums of rape, assault and murder ... just so a few thousand gang members are killed each year.
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