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  • Some Guy

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    Oct 26, 2017
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    MIT has a competition called Solve wherein they look for innovative solutions for different problems. This year, wait for it, Everytown is sponsoring an MIT Solve competition to "reductions in gun violence." Of course, they are looking for technology solutions to this "problem." Technology can be data or hardware, etc.

    Notwithstanding my disgust w/ Everytown, wouldn't it be interesting if a pro-2nd amendment person were to compete for a prize related to the creation or use of technology to limit the REAL drivers of violence in cities?

    Any techies, creative types or inventors out there that would want to give this a go? Only a few days to submit an idea and anyone can enter.

    And yes, I know that Everytown is probably just going to award the money to someone who will use commie tech solutions from China, Google, Facebook or other similar sources to try to crush your civil rights. But it might be fun anyway for some people of the gun to offer tech solutions that address the real causes of urban violence.

    More here:

    https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/he...ail&utm_term=0_66eabb650a-6d850a249b-62361137

    Everytown for Gun Safety Prize

    Holistic, community-based solutions that use technology to make communities safer are eligible for up to $100,000 in grant funding provided by Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund. Selected solutions will contribute to reductions in gun violence and its impacts through the use of data or digital technology. Successful approaches can address the upstream drivers of gun violence, such as poverty or access to firearms, and/or the downstream impacts, such as psychological trauma. Solutions that utilize data should source, maintain, and use that data ethically and responsibly. Solver team(s) will be selected to receive the prize from the Healthy Cities or Community-Driven Innovation Challenges.
     

    Some Guy

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    Better locks on prison cells would do it .

    Now we're thinkin'.

    All I know is that Everytown considers access to firearms as a driver, and that logic ain't good for civil rights and democracy - especially when they start adopting CCP technology to control access (i.e. limit civil rights.) I much more prefer better, tech-enabled locks on cell doors than the Bloomturd alternative...
     

    traveller

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    Nov 26, 2010
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    Now we're thinkin'.

    All I know is that Everytown considers access to firearms as a driver, and that logic ain't good for civil rights and democracy - especially when they start adopting CCP technology to control access (i.e. limit civil rights.) I much more prefer better, tech-enabled locks on cell doors than the Bloomturd alternative...

    I am thinking about a lock that locks and doesn't unlock for 10 years or so.
     

    Occam

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    Feb 24, 2018
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    I will propose a piece of software that prints out the state's criminal statutes and sentencing guidelines in a very large font, one copy of each to be delivered to each prosecutor, judge, and jury member involved when a serial criminal is once again violent. In order to instantly get total hipster/millennial/Silicon Valley buy-in, I will call this software "BitCrime" and offer to sell very expensive shares.
     

    Some Guy

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    Low-jacks that deliver a number of taser-like shocks to judges/prosecutors when the people they let out commit violent crimes? Intensity and number determined by the degree of violent felony committed by the released criminal?

    In all seriousness, if anyone has ideas that could actually use technology to reduce violence in cities you might want to look into this. Might be cool.
     

    Steve_Zissou

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    Jun 11, 2017
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    Notwithstanding my disgust w/ Everytown, wouldn't it be interesting if a pro-2nd amendment person were to compete for a prize related to the creation or use of technology to limit the REAL drivers of violence in cities?

    God, I hope someone trolls them with this using some innocuous set of independent criteria that together highlight all of the uncomfortable statistics and hatefacts surrounding the reality of gun crime in american cities.
     

    Glaron

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    Mar 20, 2013
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    Design a collar with red glowing lights for felons convicted of a gun crime. Attach "shot spotter" to it. When a Db level exceeds threshold. Gunshot really really close... * boom*
     

    Some Guy

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    God, I hope someone trolls them with this using some innocuous set of independent criteria that together highlight all of the uncomfortable statistics and hatefacts surrounding the reality of gun crime in american cities.

    This. An app or game that allows a Bloomburger to plug in their favorite variables or "solutions" to "gun violence" and the app objectively demonstrates how the solution will not work. For example, the user plugs in stop sales of firearms to reduce or eliminate suicides, and then surprise, surprise the app shows that in Korea, Japan, NY and other locations they have zero to heavily restricted firearms and high or average suicide rates.

    Anyway, in all seriousness if there are some techies or creative types out there this might be a cool project.
     

    davsco

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    Oct 21, 2010
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    there's actually a pretty good low-tech solution - put, and keep, violent offenders (not just guns, but knives, bats, cars, fists, etc) behind bars.
     

    Allen65

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    Jun 29, 2013
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    Everytown may not get the results they're expecting. MIT students, especially the really creative ones, tend to have strong libertarian traits.

    It turns out really intelligent folks don't like being told what to do by authoritarian morons.
     
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    rascal

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    Feb 15, 2013
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    Everytown may not get the results they're expecting. MIT students, especially the really creative ones, tend to have strong libertarian tendencies.

    It turns out really intelligent folks don't like being told what to do by authoritarian morons.

    Not so sure. One of my son's schoolmates, who is really a statistics genius, will be going to MIT to study "public health science" and use of statistics and government policy to increase "population heath." They did their honors project on government using "nudges" to get people to alter behavior.

    Your observation is probably true for materials engineers, and astrophysicists, but MIT does have plenty of people doing their thesis on social engineering and "population health" and that certainty is about using government to alter (control) people's "choices."
     

    rascal

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    Feb 15, 2013
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    there's actually a pretty good low-tech solution - put, and keep, violent offenders (not just guns, but knives, bats, cars, fists, etc) behind bars.

    But how will that launder 501(c)3 charitable monies into support for DNC policies? That is the chief reason d'etre and function of Bloomberg's gun control fronts.
     

    randomuser

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    Nov 12, 2018
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    Baltimore County
    Why not just do an analysis of>>>

    mass shootings at gun shows or police departments

    vs.

    mass shootings at schools and churches


    then>>>

    determine why gun shows and police departments are safer than schools or churches

    and then>>>

    once you figure out the reason, stop infringing on peoples right to defend them self and forcing able bodied people to be victims.
     

    Glaron

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    "Gun crime". :sad20: So is DUi "alcohol crime" or "car crime"?

    Hmm. Please be clear bout what is happening. "Gun Violence" transfers responsibility to an object. Violence was caused be the person.
    As an Engineer if they keep transference up... NORMALIZE it

    Gun Violence. yeah shot
    Gravity violence. Falling
    Car violence. Car involved
    Water violence. Drown

    You get the idea.
     

    Allen65

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    Jun 29, 2013
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    Not so sure. One of my son's schoolmates, who is really a statistics genius, will be going to MIT to study "public health science" and use of statistics and government policy to increase "population heath." They did their honors project on government using "nudges" to get people to alter behavior.

    Your observation is probably true for materials engineers, and astrophysicists, but MIT does have plenty of people doing their thesis on social engineering and "population health" and that certainty is about using government to alter (control) people's "choices."

    Yeah, you're probably right. When I hear "MIT", I automatically associate to hard sciences, math, and engineering. But I keep forgetting they have business, arts, too.
     

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