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Create InternetWarn Like Skywarn [1]
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Date: 2022-07-22
Given the total gridlock failure of the Congress to pass anything rational about gun control Democrats had better get behind something like the following very safe, should be noncontroversial program. Otherwise the Republicans could outflank them with it.
How to help reunite America. We need a campaign for renewed "Brothers Keepers" morality. Yes, we are all supposed to be keepers of all of our brother countrymen. By a moral crusade for looking out for the welfare of all others we may motivate behaviors that reduce violence through advanced warning. I would not be proposing such an indirect method of harm reduction if I thought there was any chance of reasonable, just compromise between Congressional parties over even semi automatic rifles. But our Congress is hopelessly gridlocked.
Our black rifle mass shooters are doers of the “propaganda of the deed.” To the extent there is any ideology behind their acts, they are fascist domestic terrorists. Their aim is to demonstrate that the current government is too weak to protect citizens and should be overthrown by a strong one. These terrorists are like kamikaze, single ballistic missiles, and thunderstorms that likely contain tornadoes. Their computers are confessionals into which they spill their sins to be.
Posting on any internet platforms like Meta, (Facebook) Twitter, YouTube and the less popular is publication! We can collectively do things before the platforms take them down. Taking threats down is suppressing free speech. Instead these posts should be instantly reported to the lowest level of responsible protective government and local people.
Skywarn has 350 - 400,000 volunteer radio – equipped tornado watchers. We need an equivalent to watch many internet platforms for posting of generalized death threats, especially politicized ones. Watchers of Meta, (Facebook) Twitter, YouTube, etc., you must alert most local emergency services, hospitals, police, institutional authorities, school administrators, rabbis or priests, even local media, neighborhood watches and street 'phone users, who are effectively paparazzi.
There are already many false warnings! Graduated response is appropriate for volunteers and authorities. First, civilian lookouts should position themselves near a target building plus one police car circling, then more.
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