Mass killings are an anomaly and probably the hardest thing to prevent. A lot of crime deaths could be considered heat of the moment. IIRC arguments are the #1 thing that leads to murders. They don’t wake up that day planning to kill someone.
Mass killings are planned. They are going to be more successful because people wake up that day with a plan. How exactly do you combat that?
And again - per JonS’s link:
- On average, 4.4 mass killings a year between 1999 and 2013 could be defined as mass public shootings.
- Only 20 of the 68 offenders in mass public shootings were arrested. The majority killed themselves or were killed by police.
Something that happens 4.4 times a year is hardly an epidemic. Most of them were killed in the process. It is pretty clear these people are sick, want to die, and take people with them. That there is crazy evil. HOW do you make laws - which they will disregard - to stop something like that. Please suggest some with out getting too Orwellian.
BB is a big privacy advocate, anti domestic spying. But I bet if we key logged and tracked their computer activity for a month, we would see some clues for a lot of these people. Would you support mandatory key logging and history report sent to the gov. anonymously, and if you get flagged, then someone monitors your activity? Why or why not?
