Maryland Congressman Kweisi Mfume proposes bill that would identify potential mass shooters

Maryland Congressman Kweisi Mfume proposed a invoice to Congress to assist determine potential mass shooters.

The Figuring out Mass Shooters Act directs the Nationwide Institute of Justice of the Division of Justice to steer a research and analyze the digital footprint of previous mass shooters to doubtlessly assist determine folks seeking to develop into mass shooters. 

“Simply as if somebody was exterior of our home screaming out that they will rob us, we’d take motion,” Mfume mentioned. “I believe many of those people who’ve beforehand been mass shooters, and sadly try to develop into mass shooters, are screaming out by way of social postings, digital postings, making a digital footprint that would counsel that there’s a actual probability of attainable violence.”

Each submit, each click on, each share is a everlasting marking on the web.

Previous mass shooters have turned to the web to reveal their intentions.

Congressman Mfume mentioned this isn’t a surveillance invoice.

That is trying on the data of present mass shooters to search for patterns or determine an algorithm to counsel who might be the subsequent mass shooter. 

“This isn’t the tip all be all, however all of us must do one thing,” Mfume mentioned. “There are higher concepts than I’ve. As soon as we begin doing that, we are able to put collectively an method that speaks extra to saving lives than mourning lives that proceed to be misplaced by these vicious, violent folks.”