New tech to detect guns

 

In the aftermath of the tragic Buffalo mass shooting ... which comes in the aftermath of numerous other mass shootings ... this article in the Washington Post discusses new technology -- but also technology that is currently in use -- that could make it much easier to detect someone carrying a gun into places where a gun shouldn't be welcome.

AI may be searching you for guns the next time you go out in public

So what is this AI technology?

"Evolv machines use “active sensing” — a light-emission technique that also underpins radar and lidar — to create images. Then it applies AI to examine them."

However, the technology has raised questions of privacy, from the ACLU. 

 “But do we really want to create more ways for security to invade our privacy? Do we want to turn every shopping mall or Little League game into an airport?”

If it's the only way to stop mass shootings in our gun-toting society, then yes.  The system doesn't label someone or store their person information;  it just identifies and notifies someone with a weapon.  Which could provide enough time for the necessary response forces to respond if that weapon turns into a killing machine.

And I could actually care less if someone who wants to carry a gun has "privacy" regarding that status.  If it was up to me, anyone lawfully carrying a gun, concealed or open-carry, would be required to wear an international orange baseball cap with the word "GUN" in black on the front.  In many states, hunters have to do that anyway.

Not that mass killers would do that. But we have the technology to detect them.