The injured teenage survivor of a January 2025 shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee high school recently sued the manufacturer of an “AI gun detection” system that failed to detect the handgun that left two dead, including the shooter.
According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Davidson County court last month, the security company Omnilert either knew or should have known that there were “significant operational limitations in its gun detection system that could result in detection failures during actual emergencies, including limitations based on camera placement, proximity of the weapon to camera sensors, camera angle, lighting, and weapon visibility.”
Omnilert cofounder Ara Bagdasarian declined Ars’ invitation to answer questions about the lawsuit. System Integrations, the other defendant in the case, which resold the Omnilert system, also did not respond to Ars’ request for comment.
So once again the United States has attempted a complicated technical solution to a legal problem.
Why don’t you just implement safe gun laws. You don’t even have to ban people from owning guns, although that would be a good idea. You just need to have basic background checks on gun purchases.
But then how will we go on our killing sprees? Murder our loved ones? Become cops? Do you just hate american culture?
We do have basic background checks on most purchases.
Fun thing about background checks they are only done once for the purchase.
Then after the fact doesn’t matter if they lose their fucking shit and go mental. We checked their background! They where good at the time!
Background checks are fundamentally flawed from literally every possiable angle when your talking about a purchase of something that doesn’t have a time limit.
Unless your doing annual background and mental checks it’s literally just security theater. Better then literally nothing. But that’s a low fucking bar.
Mental checks sound good in theory, but such things are actually counterproductive. People actively avoid getting help if they think they might get in trouble because of it. Also, mental health is not a scientific and solved field. It’s highly subjective. Your mental health requirement would almost certainly result in more deaths, including suicides, by people who were afraid to go to therapy.
Most, but not all
But then we can’t have draconian ass surveillance funded by Epstein Predators, oh the horror!
Background checks are good, but they aren’t a solution to school shootings. Those are almost all parents giving kids guns or having shitty storage practices.
So charge the parents then
They have been.
That doesn’t prevent anything and doesn’t change the system that produces these results in the slightest.
Perhaps a tendency not to give your kids guns would be part of the background check, other countries managing.
Oh 100% American gun culture is absolutely insane
American gun culture also is too broad a term to mean anything. Gun culture in my north eastern state is worlds apart from gun culture in Florida, which is worlds apart from gun culture in Massachusetts. It’s a big country and our culture is not homogenous across all 50 states and neither are our gun laws.
A whole bunch of guns are problematic, AR15 and similar man killing guns as well as the huge number of hand guns. Just too many lethal weapons in the hands of unstable people.