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"Instagram message exchanges between the shooter and a former middle school basketball teammate that were provided by the FBI showed that the shooter expressed her intentions to die by suicide as "something bad is about to happen; Artificial intelligence – which includes automation tools like ChatGPT in the world either utilize AI or are developing their own program for public usage, in this case gun control."

"O’Leary’s "Shark Tank" co-star Mark Cuban, have weighed in on the AI debate, advising people to be cautious when using technology that has very few guardrails in place to help determine fact from fiction."

"So that's a tough debate," O’Leary responded. "That's the one that's coming. It's not necessarily about gun control, it's about monitoring the output of disturbed people."

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‘Shark Tank’ star offers AI solution to prevent mass shootings: ‘Monitoring the output of disturbed people’

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The Covenant School mass shooter could have been apprehended before the fatal tragedy if AI tools were in place to detect her disturbing online behavior, Kevin O’Leary argues.

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"Many in legacy media love mass shootings, Why would you make a statement like that? Because it's true."

"I don’t know anyone in the media that likes mass shootings. You’re wrong on every single level! We pray there’s never another one."

"The public has “reached saturation level” and are “so sick of it” that they “turn away” from the coverage. We love mass shootings? It's just not true!"

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It's one thing to say something like, "Many in legacy media love mass shootings" within the confines of CPAC, as NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch did on Thursday. It's another to say it directly to a CNN host.

"I'm not saying you love the tragedy, but you love the ratings," Loesch added in her CPAC address. "Crying white mothers are ratings gold."

After thanking Loesch for attending CNN's town hall earlier in the week, New Day host Alisyn Camerota gave her a withering look and asked, "Why would you make a statement like that?"

Almost without hesitation, Loesch responded, "Because it's true." As she continued to speak, Camerota shook her head, saying, "no" again and again.

"Dana, it's just malicious, actually, that you would say that," the former Fox News host told her. "I don't know anyone in the media that likes mass shootings. You're wrong on every single level! We pray there's never another one." She also tried to debunk Loesch's assertion that they are "ratings gold" by arguing that the public has "reached saturation level" and are "so sick of it" that they "turn away" from the coverage.

Instead of defending her own statements, Loesch repeatedly tried to turn around and accuse CNN of acting "maliciously" toward her and the NRA. When Camerota accused her of using "heated" and "inflammatory" rhetoric, Loesch again went with a "what about CNN?" argument before repeating that her statements about the media are simply "true."

"We love mass shootings? It's not true!" Camerota said again. "That's not true. How dare you!"

They spoke for more than 10 minutes more after that without ever arriving on the same page. "I think this was a good conversation," Loesch said at the end of the segment.

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It's one thing to say something like, "Many in legacy media love mass shootings" within the confines of CPAC, as NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch did on Thursday. It's another to say it directly to a CNN host. "I'm not saying you love the tragedy, but you love the ratings," Loesch added in her CPAC address.

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"What's going on? In part, a copycat phenomenon is probably in play in which savage or sick individuals get the idea of a mass shooting from seeing others do it," it says. this is an era of media saturation, after all."

"Some experts point to frayed family ties, too. Others highlight the number of mentally ill people who go without supervision or even treatment."

"Republicans who almost unanimously oppose new gun regulation control the House of Representatives and wield effective veto power in the Senate," he says. "And GOP leaders have kept a conspicuously low profile on the issue while many moderate Democrats in both chambers are wary of alienating gun rights' supporters in their states and districts."

"Advocates and opponents of gun-control are so entrenched in their views and there becomes a legislative stalemate; The stalemate can be broken, but only if both sides exit their trenches."

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The Newtown school shootings have revived debate in the US media about gun control - the same debate that raged, for a while, after previous atrocities such as Columbine and Virginia Tech.

But the fact that 20 of the 26 victims were seven or younger has intensified the argument:

Can such atrocities be avoided by focusing on mental health treatment rather than the National Rifle Association (NRA)? How much responsibility lies with a killer's family, the amount of support received in formative years - and the media itself?

Five months after a gunman killed 12 people at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, the Post says the massacres themselves are not new, but their frequency is.

"What's going on? In part, a copycat phenomenon is probably in play in which savage or sick individuals get the idea of a mass shooting from seeing others do it," it says. "This is an era of media saturation, after all.

"Some experts point to frayed family ties, too. Others highlight the number of mentally ill people who go without supervision or even treatment."

Ready for change?

In the aftermath of Friday's shootings, many have argued for tighter restrictions on guns, but equally vocal are those who say gun ownership is not the problem.

He checks out statistics comparing gun ownership laws in the US with crime-rates, and reaches no firm conclusion.

"Such laws have not increased the crime rate, as opponents had feared, but it is equally a stretch to say such laws are a slam-dunk reason for why crimes have decreased," says Kessler.

The writer asks for America to regulate its guns as seriously as its cars.

"As with guns, some auto deaths are caused by people who break laws or behave irresponsibly," argues Kristof. "But we don't shrug and say, 'Cars don't kill people, drunks do.'"

"Instead, we have required seat belts, air bags, child seats and crash safety standards. We have introduced limited licenses for young drivers and tried to curb the use of mobile phones while driving. All this has reduced America's traffic fatality rate per mile driven by nearly 90% since the 1950s."

But is the US ready to make such changes?

'Exit trenches'

On Sunday, US President Barack Obama promised change in what may have been "his most theological address", writes Mr Crowley, but can the president deliver?

"Republicans who almost unanimously oppose new gun regulation control the House of Representatives and wield effective veto power in the Senate," he says. "And GOP leaders have kept a conspicuously low profile on the issue since the world learned the name of Adam Lanza.

"Moreover, many moderate Democrats in both chambers are wary of alienating gun rights' supporters in their states and districts."

"The stalemate can be broken, but only if both sides exit their trenches," he argues.

For starters, he suggests: "A risk-based approach reflective of a person's present danger would leave law-abiding, mentally stable citizens free to pursue their hobbies. It also would modernize federal firearm laws by expanding the ability to remove firearms from those too unstable to possess them."

'Protect ourselves'

But in the context of a memorial service, when he might have just spoken about mercy and faith, the president's speech was a point of departure, she argues.

He made an appeal for "meaningful action" against gun crime in the US shortly after Friday's attack, and reiterated this message on Sunday, saying that in coming weeks he would use "whatever powers" his office held "in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this".

So what can be done?

"Hunters don't want or need assault rifles with military magazines; these have no civilian application. Yet it is a tribute to the power of the gun lobby and the snivelling cowardice of Congress that there have been more than 60 multiple shootings since a member of Congress, Rep Gabby Giffords, was shot in Arizona in 2011 and no action has been taken."

Citing previous shooting tragedies and their perpetrators, the Courant says more should be done to improve workplace security and mental health assistance for workers who need it.

"The government has failed to protect us from shooters, but we have also failed to protect ourselves by getting help for friends or family members who need it. We need to think about social outcasts, about drug abuse, about violent video games and films, about what the Internet is being used for."

"Setting aside any Second Amendment considerations, there are nearly nine privately owned firearms in America today for every 10 people, according to the Small Arms Survey," says the paper.

Short of universal gun confiscation, it could be decades before any new gun control laws have a noticeable effect, adds the paper.

"By all means, debate guns, but the conversation cannot stop there. It needs to hit closer to home, about the responsibility of parents, teachers and Hollywood to respect the values that America once took for granted."

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"No doubt, the causes of this crisis are multifarious, and solutions — if they exist — will be holistic."

"It is regrettable that those who are ostensibly dedicated to eradicating mass gun violence seem to be working at cross purposes; so few are willing to look critically at their deeply-held convictions."

"The press is bound to make mistakes, of course. And errors like these do not excuse the legislative gaps that allow prospective mass shooters to acquire the weapons they use or the carelessness with which law enforcement handles early warning signs or an American society that has fetishized violence."

"The immediate aftermath of the massacre of high school students and their teachers in Florida was typified by breathless media coverage of their alleged murderer and fixated on the claim that amounted to free advertising for the organization."

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Among the most vexing challenges facing America is the increase in mass shootings even as gun homicide rates, overall, have declined. This epidemic has the feel of a crisis of confidence in the social compact itself, particularly when the victims of mass violence are children. No doubt, the causes of this crisis are multifarious, and solutions - if they exist - will be holistic.

It is regrettable that those who are ostensibly dedicated to eradicating mass gun violence seem to be working at cross purposes; so few are willing to look critically at their deeply-held convictions. With the stakes so high, everyone from politicians to activists to the media must be incredibly thoughtful and purposeful. Unfortunately, one product of the Parkland shootings was reckless press coverage.

The immediate aftermath of the massacre of high school students and their teachers in Florida was typified by breathless media coverage of their alleged murderer. This sadly typical dynamic was made worse by the fact that some in the press fixated on the ultimately baseless claim that the shooter was a member of a white supremacist group; a claim that amounted to free advertising for the organization. This episode is a reminder of how important it is not to rush to politically motivated conclusions in a crisis.

An invaluable forensic analysis of this incident in Politico identified a claim by the Anti-Defamation League as its source. On Feb. 15, the ADL revealed that a spokesperson for the white nationalist organization Republic of Florida (ROF) told them that the alleged shooter was a member of their group, but that they had no role in this shooting.

This episode is a reminder of how important it is not to rush to politically motivated conclusions in a crisis.

The comment, which seemed like a preemptive disavowal of an alleged murderer, lent legitimacy to the claim. Still, law enforcement agencies said they had no information to support the ROF's assertions. News outlets that tried to verify this claim found only tenuous support from the alleged shooter's classmates, who could only corroborate their belief that the confessed shooter harbored bigoted sentiments about minorities.

Still, plenty of media organizations decided to run with this story anyway, in the process giving the ROF's spokesperson, Jordan Jereb, a platform. Jereb told the Associated Press that his group supports the creation of a "white ethno-state," and that the organization holds "spontaneous random demonstrations." ABC News r ecounted in a since-deleted report Jereb's description of his group as a "white civil rights organization fighting for white identitarian politics." "I'm not trying to glorify it, but he was pretty efficient in what he did," Jereb told The Daily Beast. "He probably used that training to do what he did yesterday." In other words, according to Jereb, it was the training the confessed killer received that made him a more effective mass murderer.

These are irresponsible assertions to broadcast without qualification, much less in the immediate aftermath of the deadliest high school shooting in the country's history. And of course, they were all based on a hoax, anyway.

Jereb soon confessed that he had the alleged killer confused with another member of his organization and blamed the "lying Jew media" for running with his contentions. The ADL, it seems, was led on this snipe hunt by a series of mischievous posts on the message board 4chan. (Remember, 4chan was also the source of claims that deliberately misidentified the Las Vegas gunman - a claim that was soon finding its way to the top of Google's algorithmically generated news feeds and onto blogs that make conspiracy theorizing central to their business model.)

The AP confessed in a statement that the information "reflected in the wire" was based on claims made by "the leader of Republic of Florida," but was not supported by "continued reporting."

Aspiring mass murders have a tendency to leave behind a trail of breadcrumbs in the hopes that it all generates exposure once the deed is done.

The frenzied atmosphere post-mass casualty event explains a lot of this, of course. It explains why reporters and media personalities (an important distinction) seemed willing to believe this attention-seeker. But more broadly speaking, there is another reason why the media needs to exercise more restraint when reporting on shooters.

We know that mass killers, particularly the young, study the coverage of murder sprees. As the sociologist Zeynep Tufekci demonstrated, aspiring mass murders have a tendency to leave behind a trail of breadcrumbs - print and video - in the hopes that it all generates exposure once the deed is done. Too often, news outlets dutifully oblige the killers' requests. "Seems the more people you kill, the more you're in the limelight," wrote the gunman who killed ten people at an Oregon community college in 2015 amid a wistful rumination on way murder can overcome lonely anonymity. This particular shooter was also infatuated with Nazi symbolism.

News media has made a habit of debunking the post-shooting hoaxes that reliably spring up on the more dimly lit corners of the internet, even if that misinformation does not appear to have much purchase. This is a public service, but it is not without risk. Even a disapproving signal boost by respectable mainstream outlets may satisfy the hoaxers, perpetuating the cycle. Moreover, as this most recent episode demonstrates, even respected reporters are susceptible to bias-confirming disinformation.

The phenomenon of mass shootings requires a solution, and part of that solution must address the dangers of bias-confirming voyeurism.

For some, the extent to which the mainstream press has provided fringe organizations with coverage disproportionate to their relative influence has become a source of consternation. Others have expressed frustration over the extent to which news media seems committed to providing saturation coverage to successful mass shooters. Studies suggest that " media contagion " creates incentives for psychologically disturbed individuals who seek validation, even if it takes the form of negative public attention. In Parkland, we see the effects of both happening at once.

The press is bound to make mistakes, of course. And errors like these do not excuse the legislative gaps that allow prospective mass shooters to acquire the weapons they use or the carelessness with which law enforcement handles early warning signs or an American society that has fetishized violence or a mental health infrastructure that is not equipped to take proactive measures.

Ultimately, the phenomenon of mass shootings requires a solution, and part of that solution must address the dangers of bias-confirming voyeurism.

As the nation engages in yet another bout of introspection and self-criticism, as it should, the media must also look inward. Mass shootings are a societal ill, and it is incumbent on every element of society - including its Fourth Estate - to come to terms with its role in compounding the problem.
Noah Rothman is the Associate Editor of COMMENTARY Magazine.

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"President Joe Biden called for another federal ban on so-called "assault weapons, not only would it do nothing to curb gun violence, but he can't even define what he wants to ban."

"Gun control doesn't stop at a particular gun. It just keeps going. It's relentless. It doesn't stop, they're making these false claims that certain items are dangerous when what's dangerous is a person, and it's a very low percentage of people."

''Our background check system is a mess, bad data in, bad results out. There are thousands of people in the system who don't belong there."