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 tmaly on Monday October 05, 2015 @01:46PM (#10333451)

changes to HIPPA laws in the US would go a long way towards making data available to predict potential issues. In many states, purchase of a weapon requires that you state you are not clinically depressed. Due to HIPPA laws, there is no way to verify this. Also, there was a story on HN recently about the results of studies on certain psych meds that were hidden by the companies producing the medicines. If a medicine causes a violent reaction, it would make sense to know if someone on the medicine is trying to purchase a weapon. Again the HIPPA laws in the US prevent this.

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by DanBC on Monday October 05, 2015 @02:48PM (#10333912)

Most perpetrators of mass shootings (more than 4 people shot) do not have a diagnosable mental illness. Certainly most of them are not taking psychiatric meds.

Have you looked at each perpetrator of the nearly 300 mass shootings in the US this year?

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by duncan_bayne on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @12:04AM (#10336703)

"Most perpetrators of mass shootings (more than 4 people shot) do not have a diagnosable mental illness."

It's almost like there's an unwillingness to use the E-word to describe them.

"No sane person would do that."

"No, no good person would do that. Sane mass murders are evil."

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by tmaly on Monday October 05, 2015 @10:46PM (#10336467)

kid from Newtown was on meds

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by DanBC on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @05:46AM (#10337733)

That's one person. How about the other 293 (real number, not an exageration) mass shootings this year?

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Re:Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mas... by matt_s on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @08:20AM (#10338307)

I think that is the point tmaly was making, there isn't a data source anyone can use to actually verify or assess the 293 because of HIPAA laws.

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