Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mass murder?

Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by codeonfire on Monday October 05, 2015 @04:03AM (#10330434)

People should carry weapons with them. Engineers can make smaller, lighter, safer, and less lethal weapons. It has to have the stopping power of a gun, capacity to be useful in a long firefight, and it needs to be readily accessible. The problem is not much is going to match a gun. Schools could install gun detectors or have armed guards, but they will cheap out and not do anything. People need to learn to defend themselves. In most mass shootings, anti-gun people want to blame availability of guns. But what about the ability to walk into a school with six guns unchallenged?

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by stephenr on Monday October 05, 2015 @11:26AM (#10332401)

In all mass shootings pro-gun people blindly ignore that first world countries with gun control are proof that it's a sound approach.

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by miguelrochefort on Monday October 05, 2015 @07:56PM (#10335852)

The vast majority of mass shootings take place in places where guns are not allowed. This seems to indicate that guns are actually good at preventing mass shootings.

Finland and Norway have restrictive gun control, yet they're responsible for far more mass shooting fatalities per capita than the USA. How do you explain that?

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by stephenr on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:39AM (#10336916)

[citation needed]

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by drugsAreBad0001 on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:33AM (#10344505)

Do you really think someone who's prepared to DIE gives two shits about your laws? Did you also forget that murder is already illegal? You want to criminalize the criminal so he doesn't commit a crime? That worked so well for drugs, nobody ever uses those anymore...

Laws only affect those willing to follow them, and guess what? Criminals by definition aren't.

Also can people stop acting like 'the black market' is this foreign place that you have to know a secret code to get in? For christ's sake, it's 2015, you don't even have to LEAVE YOUR HOUSE to buy an un-registered, unmarked, illegal firearm, but sure, the people buying them legally are the problem.

Bad people will always have guns, suggesting a ban is basically telling everyone who has defended their own life with a firearm (myself included) that they deserve to be dead, and well, my response to that would be pretty vulgar.

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by forgotpasswd3x on Monday October 05, 2015 @10:12AM (#10331909)

I'd like to think we can progress as a society to a point where a person doesn't have to carry a weapon at all times to protect themselves.

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by codeonfire on Saturday October 10, 2015 @04:00AM (#10364857)

Yeah, it sucks being alive, but having to sometimes defend oneself will always be a part of it. The only society where no one has to carry a weapon is one where everyone is physically separated all the time.

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by seiji on Monday October 05, 2015 @11:30AM (#10332434)

possesses a cranial weapon implant (known as a "skull gun"),

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