HACKER Q&A
📣 dzink

What can we, people in tech, do to stop mass shootings?


What can we, people in tech, do to stop mass shootings?


  👤 eimrine Accepted Answer ✓
Maybe to make study process more pleasant for a young folks? When I remember my literature and history classes, they were so boring (teachers were excellent) that it provoked all kinds of bulling. Same to physical culture (sport) and labor culture (working with hands) and basics of safety and pre-conspriction training for young men (in these cases my teachers were... not motivated to make a good job). All of that classes I used to truant and you know what? If all that what happened to me happened in USA where it is not easy to truant, I would do maybe not shooting (no easy to access firearms) but definitely kind of massacre to my bullies and bully-sympathisers.

What tech ppl can do with that? Hm... probably go to teaching. And teachers please stop insist on studying boring classes and especially stop claiming History is not boring. Please, teach (give) Liberal Arts and nothing else and I believe most of that massacres will be gone.


👤 WheelsAtLarge
There are organizations out there that are actively working to fix the problem. I say join one of them and use tech to amplify their message.

There is no magic fix. It's a matter of changing minds 1 person at a time and getting the right politicians elected that will do something about it. They must be from both parties and can't be at extreme ends of the issue.

The bigger problem is that I don't think any one really knows what to do about it. That's the first step. Understanding where to start so we can fix the problem.


👤 ksaj
Vote.

I say that because I live in a country where it isn't easy to get a gun unless there's a reasonable need for it. We do have stabbings (that one is harder to work around). But shootings are far rarer here than in the US, and mass shootings are nearly non-existent. Nearly all gun crap here is gang specific, and we just let Darwin explain the end result of that.

Gun play happens here, but not nearly every other day as the US seems to be dealing with.


👤 mickuehl
Lobby for gun-control, vote and get used to the idea that a modern civilization does not need privately own weapons ?

👤 ElSinchi
There should be an app...