What should be done to reduce mass shootings? (Poll)

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

I can think of (4) ways to potentially reduce the number of mass shootings.
All of them offend one group or the other.
1. Have AI scour online personas for potential shooter profiles. If found, the FBI database will be checked to see if any guns were purchased, if not a "red-flag stop" will be issued so the FBI denies all gun purchases until the stop is cleared. If they have purchased any guns, the police will be directed to hold them until the stop is cleared. Civil libertarians and NRA members will both hate this idea. This is based on the fact that shooters generally have an online presence.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5520787/minnesota-shooters-online-persona-emulated-mass-shooters

Mass Shooters - The Violence Project

Explore The Violence Project’s Mass Shooter Database with detailed data on incidents, perpetrators, motives, and evidence-based prevention.

www.theviolenceproject.org

The Online Spaces That Enable Mass Shooters

The eighteen-year-old who committed a racist killing spree in Buffalo last weekend spent many months developing his plans on the Internet.

www.newyorker.com

2. Gun control like democrats keep whining for.

3. Hold parents legally responsible for the actions of their kids until the age of 25. They should know if their kid is messed up. If they report a kid for therapy or psychological evaluation, the state shares the cost.

4. Re-open outpatient mental institutions. Too many insane people are on the street.

5. No action. Things stay as-is.

Enhance physical security at school campuses and outlaw gun free zones and pass national reciprocity.

 

[otto105]

Have some of the teachers or staff be armed.

How about armed towers at each corner of property

 

[TemplarKormac]

I can think of (4) ways to potentially reduce the number of mass shootings.
All of them offend one group or the other.
1. Have AI scour online personas for potential shooter profiles. If found, the FBI database will be checked to see if any guns were purchased, if not a "red-flag stop" will be issued so the FBI denies all gun purchases until the stop is cleared. If they have purchased any guns, the police will be directed to hold them until the stop is cleared. Civil libertarians and NRA members will both hate this idea. This is based on the fact that shooters generally have an online presence.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5520787/minnesota-shooters-online-persona-emulated-mass-shooters

Mass Shooters - The Violence Project

Explore The Violence Project’s Mass Shooter Database with detailed data on incidents, perpetrators, motives, and evidence-based prevention.

www.theviolenceproject.org

The Online Spaces That Enable Mass Shooters

The eighteen-year-old who committed a racist killing spree in Buffalo last weekend spent many months developing his plans on the Internet.

www.newyorker.com

2. Gun control like democrats keep whining for.

3. Hold parents legally responsible for the actions of their kids until the age of 25. They should know if their kid is messed up. If they report a kid for therapy or psychological evaluation, the state shares the cost.

4. Re-open outpatient mental institutions. Too many insane people are on the street.

5. No action. Things stay as-is.

Shoot back.

 

[elektra]

1. AI is in its infancy. As it develops and learns I'm sure it will be much more reliable. Besides, if a human doesn't agree that the AI found a problem that case can be deleted.

2. I agree that trannys need to be monitored closely, especially when they are taking powerful medications. Transitioning before adulthood needs to be prohibited.

3. Not sure who is going to give homes away for free. But nice living spaces should be plentiful.

I did not say give. They should not take a lifetime to buy. They should nit be taxed forever.

Taxes and insurance equal what I pay for the mortgage.

The politicians must be stopped

 

[elektra]

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The teacher does not have the option to call the child anything but what it wants to be called. If she does otherwise, she can lose her job.

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time to stop the madness
One school/education for all people. Go to learn, not to be called a girl when you are a boy

Too many states making their own rules, policies.

Rules, policies, what is taught must be the same for everyone in our nation

 

[Woodznutz]

So how do we do that?

Don't let the devil into your mind. Learn how he (it) operates.

 

[Woodznutz]

The so called licensed "mental health practitioners" are supposed to be the screen door.

That would be a slippery slope.

 

[airplanemechanic]

I can't vote in the poll because the obvious answer wasn't even a choice.

Put armed guards in all schools, daycares, churches and other soft targets.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Stop mainstreaming drug use. Demonize drug usage. Start by recriminalizing pot.
Fentanyl wouldn’t be a problem if drug use wasn’t accepted as normal.
Every single one of these mass shooters are drug addled or screwed up from drug use.
None of this occurred before drug abuse became mainstreamed.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

I can think of (4) ways to potentially reduce the number of mass shootings.
All of them offend one group or the other.
1. Have AI scour online personas for potential shooter profiles. If found, the FBI database will be checked to see if any guns were purchased, if not a "red-flag stop" will be issued so the FBI denies all gun purchases until the stop is cleared. If they have purchased any guns, the police will be directed to hold them until the stop is cleared. Civil libertarians and NRA members will both hate this idea. This is based on the fact that shooters generally have an online presence.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5520787/minnesota-shooters-online-persona-emulated-mass-shooters

Mass Shooters - The Violence Project

Explore The Violence Project’s Mass Shooter Database with detailed data on incidents, perpetrators, motives, and evidence-based prevention.

www.theviolenceproject.org

The Online Spaces That Enable Mass Shooters

The eighteen-year-old who committed a racist killing spree in Buffalo last weekend spent many months developing his plans on the Internet.

www.newyorker.com

2. Gun control like democrats keep whining for.

3. Hold parents legally responsible for the actions of their kids until the age of 25. They should know if their kid is messed up. If they report a kid for therapy or psychological evaluation, the state shares the cost.

4. Re-open outpatient mental institutions. Too many insane people are on the street.

5. No action. Things stay as-is.

Ban trans BS scams on kids

Trans = scam

 

[toobfreak]

I'd replace the word "beat" with "discipline".

Well sure, why not? I guess it depends on the parents you had. But as a kid in the 1960s, I remember my mother leaning out the kitchen door yelling over to our neighbor's house one summer to her friend and next door mother much to the effect of: "Jean! Stop It! You're going to kill that kid [if you keep beating him/her (I couldn't tell who just by the screaming) the way you are!"]

 

[kyzr]

Don't let the devil into your mind. Learn how he (it) operates.

. Spirit box classes?

5 Things That Will Help You To Safely Speak With A Ghost

Reach out and touch "something".

backpackerverse.com

 

[kyzr]

That would be a slippery slope.

How? If psychiatrists are competent they should e able to diagnose potential shooters, and red flag them.
If a person is even seeing a mental health professional, that should be a red flag, no guns allowed.

 

[kyzr]

I can't vote in the poll because the obvious answer wasn't even a choice.
Put armed guards in all schools, daycares, churches and other soft targets.

It wasn't a choice because that option is generally unaffordable.
Besides, Parkland HS had an armed "resource officer" who ran out of the building faster than the kids.

 

[kyzr]

Stop mainstreaming drug use. Demonize drug usage. Start by recriminalizing pot.
Fentanyl wouldn’t be a problem if drug use wasn’t accepted as normal.
Every single one of these mass shooters are drug addled or screwed up from drug use.
None of this occurred before drug abuse became mainstreamed.

The "war on drugs" has been a complicated mess.
Unless there is a vaccination that can make drug use very painful, I'm not seeing drug use ending any time soon.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I can think of (4) ways to potentially reduce the number of mass shootings.
All of them offend one group or the other.
1. Have AI scour online personas for potential shooter profiles. If found, the FBI database will be checked to see if any guns were purchased, if not a "red-flag stop" will be issued so the FBI denies all gun purchases until the stop is cleared. If they have purchased any guns, the police will be directed to hold them until the stop is cleared. Civil libertarians and NRA members will both hate this idea. This is based on the fact that shooters generally have an online presence.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5520787/minnesota-shooters-online-persona-emulated-mass-shooters

Mass Shooters - The Violence Project

Explore The Violence Project’s Mass Shooter Database with detailed data on incidents, perpetrators, motives, and evidence-based prevention.

www.theviolenceproject.org

The Online Spaces That Enable Mass Shooters

The eighteen-year-old who committed a racist killing spree in Buffalo last weekend spent many months developing his plans on the Internet.

www.newyorker.com

2. Gun control like democrats keep whining for.

3. Hold parents legally responsible for the actions of their kids until the age of 25. They should know if their kid is messed up. If they report a kid for therapy or psychological evaluation, the state shares the cost.

4. Re-open outpatient mental institutions. Too many insane people are on the street.

5. No action. Things stay as-is.

Change the electoral system, so that people have proper choice with political parties that actually stand for something, and have proper oversight for voters.

This is Proportional Representation.

Without this, none of the other things matter, nothing will change

 

[kyzr]

Change the electoral system, so that people have proper choice with political parties that actually stand for something, and have proper oversight for voters.
This is Proportional Representation.
Without this, none of the other things matter, nothing will change

I don't understand how what we have now isn't proportional representation.
People vote in primaries and in the general election, the winner has a majority.
I don't see the current system changing, unless "ranked choice" is used, which isn't popular.

 

[cnm]

Where's the thoughts and prayers option?

 

[cnm]

I don't understand how what we have now isn't proportional representation.
People vote in primaries and in the general election, the winner has a majority.
I don't see the current system changing, unless "ranked choice" is used, which isn't popular.

The US has the EC, the antithesis to proportionality, which refers to people, not prairie, when not in the US. The effect of the EC is to give votes in different states different values.

Many states have 'winner take all', another thing opposite to proportionality.

It still has gerrymanderable congressional districts, another thing that makes proportionality impossible.

Elections to the Senate are the only national government elections that could be called proportional, within the state at least.

 

[kyzr]

Where's the thoughts and prayers option?

Those are for the spiritual well-being, this thread is for the physical well-being.