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Y'all need to stop accusing them of having principles in the 1st place!!!!
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WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency has sent staff to the agency that enforces federal gun laws with the goal of revising or eliminating more than 50 rules and gun restrictions by July 4, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
DOGE is working with the general counsel of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to cut the regulations as the Trump administration drastically reduces the number of inspectors, the newspaper reported.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. Representatives for DOGE and the Justice Department, which oversees ATF, did not immediately return a request for comment.
The move illustrates a larger shift on gun control promised by the Republican administration of President Donald Trump, who narrowly survived a July assassination attempt by a gunman during the presidential campaign.
An adviser said shortly after that attempt that Trump would safeguard gun rights by appointing federal judges who oppose new firearm limits if he won the election in November……..
DOGE is working with the general counsel of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to cut the regulations as the Trump administration drastically reduces the number of inspectors, the newspaper reported.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. Representatives for DOGE and the Justice Department, which oversees ATF, did not immediately return a request for comment.
The move illustrates a larger shift on gun control promised by the Republican administration of President Donald Trump, who narrowly survived a July assassination attempt by a gunman during the presidential campaign.
An adviser said shortly after that attempt that Trump would safeguard gun rights by appointing federal judges who oppose new firearm limits if he won the election in November……..
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The best way to get gun control is for a whole lot of non-white skinned people to start buying all these guns and accessories.
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Guess this can go here
Interesting article
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In a video posted to the Survival Sisters Facebook page, a little elementary school-age girl with immaculate braids and a blue T-shirt grips a machine gun, squinting into the sight.
The automatic weapon is huge in her tiny hands, but she holds it expertly, even if she has to balance it on a block of wood.
As the video continues, she pulls back her finger and fires a practice shot. Music taken from the movie 300 swells in the background.
Cut to a higher-definition clip, taken years later. That little girl is now a young teen, with her hair pulled back into a ponytail.
She stands confidently with her weapon, her yellow ear defenders and safety glasses matching a yellow shirt with flowers on it, and pumps round after round of ammo into an open field.
The huge bullets fly past the camera, one after the other. At one point, her father steps in behind her to gently steady her with a hand on her back. Once she’s finished with the round, she reloads and immediately starts again.
The video is titled, “The evolution of Naomi,” and it features one of the four Thrasher daughters — Naomi, Kennedy, Brooke and Charli — all of whom have spent their lives around guns.
Now in their late teens and early 20s, the Thrashers started learning about firearms before they hit kindergarten.
At 4 years old, they accompanied their father, Fred, to the local range, and he explained gun safety to them while shooting.
Once they showed that they understood the basics, he tried them out with “little bitty guns,” he tells me — 22. caliber handguns — and then they moved on to semi-automatics, AR-15s, military-grade weaponry; they’ve even driven tanks.
And they did it in front of a camera, with their father posting regular updates to their Facebook and Instagram pages, where they have a combined follower count of just under half a million.
Not everyone was happy to see four young Black girls on a shooting range when they first started out, Fred Thrasher tells me.
There were a “bunch of older white men” who took offense to seeing his kindergarten-age kids learning about gun safety while their father demonstrated with real firearms.
Some of those white men approached him and said: “I’m going to call the NRA on you, because you shouldn’t be teaching that.”
Some of them made aggressive comments directly to his daughters, telling them they were going to “make them eat dirt”.
Thrasher took a sanguine approach. “You should call the NRA,” he says he responded. “I don’t have to have a certification to teach my children a fact. Call whoever you want to call, because the NRA don’t regulate me… But it’s not even that you want it to be regulated. You just don’t want me doing it with my children, because they mess with your reality.”
He has a point. Despite the way they’re often portrayed in mainstream media, American gun owners aren’t who you think anymore.
While familiar narratives in both Hollywood and Washington, D.C., still focus on the white, rural man, gun ownership has become increasingly diverse.
In recent years, Black gun ownership in particular has spiked, with a 58-percent increase in 2020 alone, according to the firearm industry trade association NSSF.
That trend has continued upwards over the five years that followed, with Black women in particular showing an interest in buying a firearm for the first time.
Hispanic Americans, too, have become first-time gun owners at record rates. Polls show that interest in gun ownership from Jewish Americans has also been rising since 2023; national gun clubs have been reporting an influx of female and LGBTQ members.
These numbers have been attributed to a number of factors: a rise in racism following the Black Lives Matter protests, a rise in antisemitism since the beginning of the war in Gaza, a rise in misogyny and transphobia after the re-election of Donald Trump.
But they also correlate with a push by gun manufacturers to advertise to diverse groups, according to the nonprofit Violence Policy Center.
Advertising since 2020 has spotlighted racially diverse gun owners and women, with dark warnings about the importance of protecting oneself from a radicalized populace.
And all the while, marketing presentations at industry-only events have presented “diversity” as “the next big opportunity” for gun manufacturers, with the hope of creating “new Second Amendment advocates” out of groups who historically might have been pro-gun rights and anti-guns in general.…..
www.independent.co.uk
Interesting article
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In a video posted to the Survival Sisters Facebook page, a little elementary school-age girl with immaculate braids and a blue T-shirt grips a machine gun, squinting into the sight.
The automatic weapon is huge in her tiny hands, but she holds it expertly, even if she has to balance it on a block of wood.
As the video continues, she pulls back her finger and fires a practice shot. Music taken from the movie 300 swells in the background.
Cut to a higher-definition clip, taken years later. That little girl is now a young teen, with her hair pulled back into a ponytail.
She stands confidently with her weapon, her yellow ear defenders and safety glasses matching a yellow shirt with flowers on it, and pumps round after round of ammo into an open field.
The huge bullets fly past the camera, one after the other. At one point, her father steps in behind her to gently steady her with a hand on her back. Once she’s finished with the round, she reloads and immediately starts again.
The video is titled, “The evolution of Naomi,” and it features one of the four Thrasher daughters — Naomi, Kennedy, Brooke and Charli — all of whom have spent their lives around guns.
Now in their late teens and early 20s, the Thrashers started learning about firearms before they hit kindergarten.
At 4 years old, they accompanied their father, Fred, to the local range, and he explained gun safety to them while shooting.
Once they showed that they understood the basics, he tried them out with “little bitty guns,” he tells me — 22. caliber handguns — and then they moved on to semi-automatics, AR-15s, military-grade weaponry; they’ve even driven tanks.
And they did it in front of a camera, with their father posting regular updates to their Facebook and Instagram pages, where they have a combined follower count of just under half a million.
Not everyone was happy to see four young Black girls on a shooting range when they first started out, Fred Thrasher tells me.
There were a “bunch of older white men” who took offense to seeing his kindergarten-age kids learning about gun safety while their father demonstrated with real firearms.
Some of those white men approached him and said: “I’m going to call the NRA on you, because you shouldn’t be teaching that.”
Some of them made aggressive comments directly to his daughters, telling them they were going to “make them eat dirt”.
Thrasher took a sanguine approach. “You should call the NRA,” he says he responded. “I don’t have to have a certification to teach my children a fact. Call whoever you want to call, because the NRA don’t regulate me… But it’s not even that you want it to be regulated. You just don’t want me doing it with my children, because they mess with your reality.”
He has a point. Despite the way they’re often portrayed in mainstream media, American gun owners aren’t who you think anymore.
While familiar narratives in both Hollywood and Washington, D.C., still focus on the white, rural man, gun ownership has become increasingly diverse.
In recent years, Black gun ownership in particular has spiked, with a 58-percent increase in 2020 alone, according to the firearm industry trade association NSSF.
That trend has continued upwards over the five years that followed, with Black women in particular showing an interest in buying a firearm for the first time.
Hispanic Americans, too, have become first-time gun owners at record rates. Polls show that interest in gun ownership from Jewish Americans has also been rising since 2023; national gun clubs have been reporting an influx of female and LGBTQ members.
These numbers have been attributed to a number of factors: a rise in racism following the Black Lives Matter protests, a rise in antisemitism since the beginning of the war in Gaza, a rise in misogyny and transphobia after the re-election of Donald Trump.
But they also correlate with a push by gun manufacturers to advertise to diverse groups, according to the nonprofit Violence Policy Center.
Advertising since 2020 has spotlighted racially diverse gun owners and women, with dark warnings about the importance of protecting oneself from a radicalized populace.
And all the while, marketing presentations at industry-only events have presented “diversity” as “the next big opportunity” for gun manufacturers, with the hope of creating “new Second Amendment advocates” out of groups who historically might have been pro-gun rights and anti-guns in general.…..
From eight-year-olds to trans anarchists, today’s gun owners aren’t who you think
The demographics of gun ownership are changing, with a huge uptick in Black and Latino people, women and members of the LGBTQ community. Meanwhile, gun influencers are getting younger and younger. Holly Baxter speaks with the people at the forefront of the change — and considers how high a price...
www.independent.co.ukIf guns keep people safe then why is there gun crime? Why are guns prevalent in suicide?Guess this can go here
Interesting article
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In a video posted to the Survival Sisters Facebook page, a little elementary school-age girl with immaculate braids and a blue T-shirt grips a machine gun, squinting into the sight.
The automatic weapon is huge in her tiny hands, but she holds it expertly, even if she has to balance it on a block of wood.
As the video continues, she pulls back her finger and fires a practice shot. Music taken from the movie 300 swells in the background.
Cut to a higher-definition clip, taken years later. That little girl is now a young teen, with her hair pulled back into a ponytail.
She stands confidently with her weapon, her yellow ear defenders and safety glasses matching a yellow shirt with flowers on it, and pumps round after round of ammo into an open field.
The huge bullets fly past the camera, one after the other. At one point, her father steps in behind her to gently steady her with a hand on her back. Once she’s finished with the round, she reloads and immediately starts again.
The video is titled, “The evolution of Naomi,” and it features one of the four Thrasher daughters — Naomi, Kennedy, Brooke and Charli — all of whom have spent their lives around guns.
Now in their late teens and early 20s, the Thrashers started learning about firearms before they hit kindergarten.
At 4 years old, they accompanied their father, Fred, to the local range, and he explained gun safety to them while shooting.
Once they showed that they understood the basics, he tried them out with “little bitty guns,” he tells me — 22. caliber handguns — and then they moved on to semi-automatics, AR-15s, military-grade weaponry; they’ve even driven tanks.
And they did it in front of a camera, with their father posting regular updates to their Facebook and Instagram pages, where they have a combined follower count of just under half a million.
Not everyone was happy to see four young Black girls on a shooting range when they first started out, Fred Thrasher tells me.
There were a “bunch of older white men” who took offense to seeing his kindergarten-age kids learning about gun safety while their father demonstrated with real firearms.
Some of those white men approached him and said: “I’m going to call the NRA on you, because you shouldn’t be teaching that.”
Some of them made aggressive comments directly to his daughters, telling them they were going to “make them eat dirt”.
Thrasher took a sanguine approach. “You should call the NRA,” he says he responded. “I don’t have to have a certification to teach my children a fact. Call whoever you want to call, because the NRA don’t regulate me… But it’s not even that you want it to be regulated. You just don’t want me doing it with my children, because they mess with your reality.”
He has a point. Despite the way they’re often portrayed in mainstream media, American gun owners aren’t who you think anymore.
While familiar narratives in both Hollywood and Washington, D.C., still focus on the white, rural man, gun ownership has become increasingly diverse.
In recent years, Black gun ownership in particular has spiked, with a 58-percent increase in 2020 alone, according to the firearm industry trade association NSSF.
That trend has continued upwards over the five years that followed, with Black women in particular showing an interest in buying a firearm for the first time.
Hispanic Americans, too, have become first-time gun owners at record rates. Polls show that interest in gun ownership from Jewish Americans has also been rising since 2023; national gun clubs have been reporting an influx of female and LGBTQ members.
These numbers have been attributed to a number of factors: a rise in racism following the Black Lives Matter protests, a rise in antisemitism since the beginning of the war in Gaza, a rise in misogyny and transphobia after the re-election of Donald Trump.
But they also correlate with a push by gun manufacturers to advertise to diverse groups, according to the nonprofit Violence Policy Center.
Advertising since 2020 has spotlighted racially diverse gun owners and women, with dark warnings about the importance of protecting oneself from a radicalized populace.
And all the while, marketing presentations at industry-only events have presented “diversity” as “the next big opportunity” for gun manufacturers, with the hope of creating “new Second Amendment advocates” out of groups who historically might have been pro-gun rights and anti-guns in general.…..
From eight-year-olds to trans anarchists, today’s gun owners aren’t who you think
The demographics of gun ownership are changing, with a huge uptick in Black and Latino people, women and members of the LGBTQ community. Meanwhile, gun influencers are getting younger and younger. Holly Baxter speaks with the people at the forefront of the change — and considers how high a price...
I certainly can understand Blacks, Latinos and Jews getting weapons because of the psychopathology of Whites and their fears. Trumpism has increased that but it has always been here.
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Yes the reasons listed of why these diverse groups are now embracing guns can be boiled down to Trump and the rise of far right arse haberdashers
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Florida schools could soon deploy the “Campus Guardian Angel” drone system to help policedefend against shootings.
School shootings are prevalent in America, especially in states such as Florida. The state has documented more than 60 school shooting incidents since 2018, local ABC affiliate WTXLreported, citing the K-12 School Shooting Database.
Nikolas Cruz, 19, opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in February 2018. A total of 17 people were killed and 17 more were injured. Cruz was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The new drone technology could help prevent such tragedies by deploying drones to schools in seconds and providing police with immediate situational awareness, according to WTXL, which reported on the program.
On Monday, the program was demonstrated at the Leon County Schools District Security Center. The drones live-streamed video, and one even knocked down a dummy to show its ability to use force to delay a threat.
The pilot program has $557,000 in state funding behind it, but Leon County Schools Superintendent Rocky Hanna told WTXL the cost to fully implement the system past the pilot could be more than $1 million.…….
www.independent.co.uk
School shootings are prevalent in America, especially in states such as Florida. The state has documented more than 60 school shooting incidents since 2018, local ABC affiliate WTXLreported, citing the K-12 School Shooting Database.
Nikolas Cruz, 19, opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in February 2018. A total of 17 people were killed and 17 more were injured. Cruz was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The new drone technology could help prevent such tragedies by deploying drones to schools in seconds and providing police with immediate situational awareness, according to WTXL, which reported on the program.
On Monday, the program was demonstrated at the Leon County Schools District Security Center. The drones live-streamed video, and one even knocked down a dummy to show its ability to use force to delay a threat.
The pilot program has $557,000 in state funding behind it, but Leon County Schools Superintendent Rocky Hanna told WTXL the cost to fully implement the system past the pilot could be more than $1 million.…….
Schools could soon deploy ‘campus guardian angel’ - a drone defense against shootings
The new drone technology could help prevent tragic outcomes in active shooter situations by deploying drones to schools in seconds
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Anything but gun laws.Schools could soon deploy ‘campus guardian angel’ - a drone defense against shootings
The new drone technology could help prevent tragic outcomes in active shooter situations by deploying drones to schools in seconds
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President Donald Trump’s administration has cut more than half of all federal funding for gun violence prevention programs, according to a new report.
The Justice Department slashed 69 community violence intervention grants in April, ending more than $158 million in funding, Reutersreports.
These grants were directed to several cities throughout the U.S., including Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C.
The grants helped fund several programs that work to prevent gun violence. These included training outreach teams to de-escalate conflict, social workers to connect people with key services, and programs for hospitalized gun violence victims, Reuters reports.
These cuts are preventing some community organizations from “doing the work in service of those that need it the most at the most urgent, and deadliest time of the year,” Michael-Sean Spence, managing director of community safety initiatives at Everytown for Gun Safety, told Reuters…….
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……… A DOJ official told Reuters the gun violence grants were eliminated because they "no longer effectuate the program's goals or agency's priorities."
Thousands of Office of Justice Programs grants are under review, the official said, and are being evaluated, among other things, on how well they support law enforcement and combat violent crime………
www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-slashed-federal-funding-gun-violence-prevention-2025-07-29/
The Justice Department slashed 69 community violence intervention grants in April, ending more than $158 million in funding, Reutersreports.
These grants were directed to several cities throughout the U.S., including Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C.
The grants helped fund several programs that work to prevent gun violence. These included training outreach teams to de-escalate conflict, social workers to connect people with key services, and programs for hospitalized gun violence victims, Reuters reports.
These cuts are preventing some community organizations from “doing the work in service of those that need it the most at the most urgent, and deadliest time of the year,” Michael-Sean Spence, managing director of community safety initiatives at Everytown for Gun Safety, told Reuters…….
Trump cuts more than half of all federal funding for gun violence prevention
The cuts ended more than $158 million in funding for community violence intervention grants
www.independent.co.uk……… A DOJ official told Reuters the gun violence grants were eliminated because they "no longer effectuate the program's goals or agency's priorities."
Thousands of Office of Justice Programs grants are under review, the official said, and are being evaluated, among other things, on how well they support law enforcement and combat violent crime………
www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-slashed-federal-funding-gun-violence-prevention-2025-07-29/
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And anything to justify more warrantless surveillance.
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The Uvalde, Texas, school district is installing an artificial intelligence-based gun detection system, as the area continues to grapple with the fallout of a 2022 school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
A company called Omnialert plans to offer the district its technology, which automatically monitors security feeds for the presence of an individual with a gun, for free as part of a three-year grant program.
“We felt very strongly–particularly with the tragedy that occurred in Uvalde–that it made sense for us to create a grant program specifically for these types of school districts that have already been impacted by a tragedy,” Omnialert CEO Dave Fraser told KXAN.
The executive added that the system, which flags a human to review possible alerts and then notifies first responders for confirmed matches, does not track biometric data.
“It’s important that there’s absolutely no form of biometrics or facial recognition, nothing that makes a human being, individually or personally, recognizable at all in our system,” he said. “All it’s doing is it’s looking for the shape of a human being holding a brandished firearm.”……..
www.independent.co.uk
A company called Omnialert plans to offer the district its technology, which automatically monitors security feeds for the presence of an individual with a gun, for free as part of a three-year grant program.
“We felt very strongly–particularly with the tragedy that occurred in Uvalde–that it made sense for us to create a grant program specifically for these types of school districts that have already been impacted by a tragedy,” Omnialert CEO Dave Fraser told KXAN.
The executive added that the system, which flags a human to review possible alerts and then notifies first responders for confirmed matches, does not track biometric data.
“It’s important that there’s absolutely no form of biometrics or facial recognition, nothing that makes a human being, individually or personally, recognizable at all in our system,” he said. “All it’s doing is it’s looking for the shape of a human being holding a brandished firearm.”……..
Uvalde schools adding AI gun detectors three years after Texas gunman killed 19 kids
Police waited over an hour before confronting and killing gunman in 2022 attack
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or mental healthcare for troubled youths...
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I read that and find that such a system is quite plausible. This week alone I've spent over forty hours at a keyboard parsing code with an AI on one side of my screen, working hand in hand moment by moment with me as partners. Through working towards a well defined goal together, we are easily parsing advanced neural net code at a post doctorate level. Where I would be working alone is lost, that is how advanced what we are doing is. Our combined talents complement each others failings. This AI is the most pleasant coworker I've ever worked with. We motivate each other, crack jokes, and gossip. All the while analyzing the shell output and system logs to debug when we hit snags.The Uvalde, Texas, school district is installing an artificial intelligence-based gun detection system, as the area continues to grapple with the fallout of a 2022 school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
A company called Omnialert plans to offer the district its technology, which automatically monitors security feeds for the presence of an individual with a gun, for free as part of a three-year grant program.
“We felt very strongly–particularly with the tragedy that occurred in Uvalde–that it made sense for us to create a grant program specifically for these types of school districts that have already been impacted by a tragedy,” Omnialert CEO Dave Fraser told KXAN.
The executive added that the system, which flags a human to review possible alerts and then notifies first responders for confirmed matches, does not track biometric data.
“It’s important that there’s absolutely no form of biometrics or facial recognition, nothing that makes a human being, individually or personally, recognizable at all in our system,” he said. “All it’s doing is it’s looking for the shape of a human being holding a brandished firearm.”……..
Uvalde schools adding AI gun detectors three years after Texas gunman killed 19 kids
Police waited over an hour before confronting and killing gunman in 2022 attack
We're using a two part advanced method which consists of first scanning the shell and log output with Lexical Analysis which "breaks down the raw input code into a stream of meaningful units called 'tokens' or 'lexemes.' A lexer identifies distinct elements like keywords, identifiers, operators, numbers, and strings, discarding irrelevant characters such as whitespace and comments."--Google AI
Then in the second part we're applying "Syntactic Analysis (Parsing): In this stage, the parser takes the stream of tokens generated by the lexer and builds a hierarchical representation of the code's structure, typically in the form of a parse tree or an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). This process validates the code against the rules of a formal grammar, ensuring that the syntax is correct and meaningful." -- Google AI
That is what an AI can bring to the table, those results when combined with my human ingenuity and intuition are awesome.
Okay, so if the person is brandishing a gun it will spot it, but it then has to be reviewed by a human and then reported to police?
Can it not be totally thwarted by concealment of the weapon until the person starts shooting? Which is what the kids at Columbine did, and probably many other mass shooters who wanted to escape detection.
Sorry, this seems like a waste - places will be spending money on this which may lead to a false sense of security. And it won’t be free for everyone. They are using the old time dealer tactic - first one’s free.
Can it not be totally thwarted by concealment of the weapon until the person starts shooting? Which is what the kids at Columbine did, and probably many other mass shooters who wanted to escape detection.
Sorry, this seems like a waste - places will be spending money on this which may lead to a false sense of security. And it won’t be free for everyone. They are using the old time dealer tactic - first one’s free.
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I don't believe them when they say it want identify faces. Also, they don't promise it want recognize skin color or ethnicity.The Uvalde, Texas, school district is installing an artificial intelligence-based gun detection system, as the area continues to grapple with the fallout of a 2022 school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
A company called Omnialert plans to offer the district its technology, which automatically monitors security feeds for the presence of an individual with a gun, for free as part of a three-year grant program.
“We felt very strongly–particularly with the tragedy that occurred in Uvalde–that it made sense for us to create a grant program specifically for these types of school districts that have already been impacted by a tragedy,” Omnialert CEO Dave Fraser told KXAN.
The executive added that the system, which flags a human to review possible alerts and then notifies first responders for confirmed matches, does not track biometric data.
“It’s important that there’s absolutely no form of biometrics or facial recognition, nothing that makes a human being, individually or personally, recognizable at all in our system,” he said. “All it’s doing is it’s looking for the shape of a human being holding a brandished firearm.”……..
Uvalde schools adding AI gun detectors three years after Texas gunman killed 19 kids
Police waited over an hour before confronting and killing gunman in 2022 attack
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It's more snake oil selling of AI. It will not be helpful at all and relying on it will give people a false sense of security that can be exploited.
I know some of you will completely disagree with me, but my belief is based on credible research and objective historical fact. Whereas, your beliefs are based on a new found fascination with AI. Just getting that out there now to save time.
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I've been working with IT since 1979, back when I wrote my first program on punched tape. And yes—despite the hype—AI is still just a computer. A highly advanced one, certainly, but still bound by the universal principle of "garbage in, garbage out."
AI’s real power doesn’t come from intelligence in the human sense, but from its ability to process and analyze massive amounts of data at incredible speed. It can identify patterns, correlations, and anomalies across gigabytes—or even petabytes—of information, far beyond the reach of any human researcher, even over multiple lifetimes.
This makes AI invaluable in fields like medicine, climate modeling, logistics, and language processing—where the scale and complexity of data would otherwise be unmanageable. It's helping accelerate discoveries and optimize systems. But it's not thinking, reasoning, or understanding in the way humans do.
At the end of the day, AI is a tool—just like the first electronic calculator was. A powerful extension of human capability, but not a replacement for human judgment, ethics, or critical thinking. How we use it, and what data we feed it, will ultimately determine its value and its impact.
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Yea, I’m definitely on the “AI is overhyped” train, but this could also be an effective tool if the model is trained on millions of images/videos of concealed weapons in various scenarios.
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