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You could probably just make an example out of a couple of particularly bad threats every 3 months and reduce the number of threats significantly with that. The
by pingyong 7y ago
You could probably just make an example out of a couple of particularly bad threats every 3 months and reduce the number of threats significantly with that. The question is what does that actually achieve? A couple of people will simply turn to Tor or similar services, while others might post less but still kill people. It might rob law enforcement of the ability to develop some sort of system that can sort through the noise and prevent a few of these incidents in the future.
- save_ferris 7y agoI doubt that would change much. And law enforcement does thwart these kinds of attacks on a fairly regular basis, we just don’t hear about them as much. The same day that El Paso occurred, the FBI arrested a kid in Lubbock who was trying to obtain an assault weapon with the intent to perpetrate a mass shooting[0]. It’s not like the feds are totally incapable. Like it or not, relying on sigint from social media isn’t going to stop many of these attacks. 8chan is full of trolls who parrot off one another, there’s just no reliable way to determine who’s just trolling and who is serious. Our gun laws and the purchasing loopholes that exist desperately need to be addressed. 0: https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Feds-Texas-man-planning-mass-shooting-hit-with-weapons-charge-516260081.html https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Feds-Texas-man-planning-ma...