Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? 43
An anonymous reader wonders if there's a technological response to mass shootings like this Sunday's attack in Orlando, Florida:
We're in for a sadly obvious debate now with all of the usual scapegoats, but instead of focusing on who's to blame, it'd be better to identify some specific actions that could actually generate real increases in public safety going forward...
If we're looking for radical changes in the way we live, does technology have a role? Is the answer smart gun technology? Mandatory metal detectors at night clubs? Better data analysis algorithms for the federal government? Bulletproof fabrics?
Share your best ideas in the comments. Could there be a technological solution to the problem of mass shootings?
If we're looking for radical changes in the way we live, does technology have a role? Is the answer smart gun technology? Mandatory metal detectors at night clubs? Better data analysis algorithms for the federal government? Bulletproof fabrics?
Share your best ideas in the comments. Could there be a technological solution to the problem of mass shootings?
An easier sollution (Score:1)
Why don't you try education and common sense?
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In the context of "nightclubs", not so much. There's good reason most states ban carrying where alcohol is served, and all if you're drinking. The recent shooting was yet another in a gun-free zone.
Technological fix? No. Smart guns? It's the terrorist's gun. Metal detectors? Terrorist. Outlaw guns? Terrorist (much like shootings in nightclubs in other countries).
Outlawing religion seems a better bet, except historically religion has thrived on that.
No easy answers to evil men.
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How naive. Shots would be heard and the first "good guys" would draw their guns. The second good guys would think the first good guys were the original shooters and would therefore shoot *them*. Death by friendly fire is what would occur -- a lot.
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There were Armed Guards at the door of the nightclub...
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That is an assertion which is impossible to prove. Do we know that 9 other attacks were planned in Paris, but were thwarted due to the unavailability of firearms? How about Brussels?
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Keep letting them in and you'll see that change.
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No (Score:2)
No
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Because there's always a work around.
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Hey dumbass, guess what? The NRA has for years and years tried to get mandatory prison sentencing for any crime committed with a firearm. It's you and your ilk who has opposed this.
Apples and pears (Score:3)
How would metal detectors help here? (Score:3)
Metal detectors might keep people from bringing in a concealed weapon, saving the occasional life when a fight escalates. They would do nothing in a situation like Pulse, as the shooter wouldn't try to pass through undetected. He'd just storm the place, shooting the guards at the entrance if need be.
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Metal detectors might keep people from bringing in a concealed weapon, saving the occasional life when a fight escalates. They would do nothing in a situation like Pulse, as the shooter wouldn't try to pass through undetected. He'd just storm the place, shooting the guards at the entrance if need be.
Quoted for truth...
My local school has tried to reassure parents by pointing to the double locked doors, the front desk staff, the required sign-ins, etc...
I pointed out to the Principle one day that the two main front doors are made of full size sheet glass... the locks are for appearance, a gunman could simply shoot the glass.
She looked at me with a blank expression like that thought had never occurred to her.
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Side note, at the front desk, the two ladies who sit there and sign people in, they have a bu
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Guns are such efficient tools that the only way to prevent mass murders is to stop people getting hold of them. The only way technology can help is if someone invents a mind reader to check the sanity, stability and responsibility of the purchaser.
When there is a will then there is a way. (Score:2)
Gun control (Score:2)
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Like they have in France, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and Scotland?
Yes. And most (if not all) other European countries. It is not 100% perfect, but it makes these countries safer than the US for these kind of shootings.
No it cannot (Score:3)
What would help us a less violent surrounding, i.e. less guns. In case of Orlando , the guy was mentally I'll and violent. He should have been in treatment, but in the US you do not send the mentally ill to proper institutions (at least not right away). The thing that would help is a social security system and protection of the poor. You may supplement it by gun laws which forbid selling guns to people who are violent and crazy. In short Bernie could but it looks like you get Trump a fascitoid angry white guy who does not care about the poor or Clinton a Wall Street representative. At lest she will not scrap medicare.
Sure... (Score:2)
go back to muzzle-loading muskets.
Virginia Tech (Score:3)
You all remember the Virginia Tech where one of teachers was an Israeli who had a specific training and could kill the criminal but had no gun.
But I heard that is Virginia there was a mass shooting some years before. But it was NOT the arms free zone. So the students went to the parking, took their gins from their cars and shot the criminal. It's a hint.
The only method that could save you Americans from mass shooting is the perspective for the shooter to be immediately shot. So your Second Amendment is precious.
Nope (Score:3)
But getting rid of guns will.
Personally I'm hoping to see American set a few more world records. It's hilarious.
Really Obvious Solution (Score:1)
absolutely. (Score:2)
I call it "firing the pussies" and how it works is simple: you just tell the police officers who are unwilling to do their job that they are fired and you hire people that will do their jobs properly. i assume that nobody will do this because it's patented, right? -_-
"Better data analysis algorithms" (Score:2)
As in pre-crime profiling, which stirs the libertarians and the left into a lathered tizzy?
There's this wonderful technology (Score:2)
There's this wonderful technology, it's called concealed firearms. I don't propose that drunk patrons be allowed to bring them in (although that'd be better than the status quo), but it's really a shame that no one in the staff (save for one guy at the entrance) had a concealed firearm on them. This could be over in minutes with fairly minimal casualties. In fact, had he known he would see resistance there, he would likely have gone elsewhere. Instead the police waited for 3.5 hours (!) before storming the