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https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/22/trump-gun-control-background/
The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would use Google, Amazon and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
The proposal is part of an initiative to create a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), which would be located inside the Health and Human Services Department, the report notes, citing sources inside the administration. The new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for appointing its director.
HARPA would take after Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which serves as the research arm for the Pentagon. The idea was first crafted in 2017 but has since gotten a renewed push after mass shootings killed 31 people in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in August.
The Suzanne Wright Foundation approached the president recently and proposed the agency include a project called Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes, or Safe Home, the report notes, citing two people familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump has a close relationship with Bob Wright, who founded the foundation after his wife died of cancer. Wright was a former chair of NBC and occupied that position while the president hosted “The Apprentice.” (RELATED: 20 People Dead After El Paso Shooting, Governor Says)
HARPA would develop “breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence,” according to a copy of the proposal. “A multi-modality solution, along with real-time data analytics, is needed to achieve such an accurate diagnosis.”
The document lists several technologies that could be employed to help collect information, including Apple Watches, Amazon Echo and Google Home. Geoffrey Ling, the lead scientific adviser on HARPA, told reporters Thursday the plan would require enormous amounts of data and “scientific rigor.”
He added: “Everybody would be a volunteer. We’re not inventing new science here. We’re analyzing it so we can develop new approaches.” The White House declined to provide the Daily Caller News Foundation with a statement but sources told WaPo that Trump has reacted “very positively” to the proposal — it is unclear if he has seen the Safe Home idea.
Google and Amazon have also not responded to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
Trump said mentally ill people are responsible for the uptick in mass shootings. “I do want people to remember the words ‘mental illness.’ These people are mentally ill. … I think we have to start building institutions again because, you know, if you look at the ’60s and ’70s, so many of these institutions were closed,” he said on Aug. 15. The president has also floatedthe possibility of supporting background checks.
The president has an icy relationship with both Google and Amazon. Trump told his Twitter followers Monday that Google manipulated votes to help former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential election. “My victory was even bigger than thought!” he added. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has long been a whipping boy for the president.
Some here considers this "Trump winning again".
... carry on.
Trump is not your god or you savior, but you have nobody else to vote for in 2020 and staying home is pretty lame.
Staying home sounds a lot better than voting for a person who's actively attacking freedom at this point.
Implementing the current law as written would be a good start.
There's nothing f*cking "Temporary" about it.Duh
Trump Aides’ Poll Finds Gun Control Politically Problematic for the President
President Trump assured Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, on Thursday that he was still considering legislation that could include background checks for gun buyers. But White House aides said they had polling data showing that gun control was politically problematic for the president, according to two people briefed on the meeting.
Inside the White House, the issue of new gun control measures has largely been theoretical. Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, has cautioned that it will be the president who will have to press his party to act. To help guide Mr. Trump’s decision-making, White House aides commissioned a poll to determine where his supporters stood on different measures.
For his part, the president has sent conflicting signals about his plans, depending on with whom he is speaking, and the issue has taken on a new urgency after a shooting spree in West Texas over the weekend.
Days after consecutive shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, in early August, Mr. Trump said that he wanted to pursue what he described as “very meaningful background checks.” But that resolve appeared to soften amid concerns from the National Rifle Association and some of his closest advisers and family members, including his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. The president, reverting to a stance he has taken since the 2016 campaign, has subsequently focused more on mental health issues and the deficiencies in treating them.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Trump indicated to the chief of the N.R.A., Wayne LaPierre, that he did not intend to pursue major legislation on background checks, but that he planned to scrutinize other options.
And with the Senate in recess in August, any momentum behind major legislation appeared to stall.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Manchin met for about 30 minutes on Thursday at the White House after the president presented the Medal of Freedom to Jerry West, a former N.B.A. star. CNN first reported that the meeting occurred.
Mr. Trump’s aides were on hand for the meeting, and the president told Mr. Manchin that a background checks bill that the senator had pushed for with a Republican counterpart, Senator Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, was still on the table, according to the people briefed on the discussion.
But the polling data, White House aides said, indicated that the issue does not help the president with his core base of supporters, according to the people briefed on the meeting.
People familiar with the meeting said a number of different options of gun measures were discussed. But those familiar with the meeting said the president’s likeliest course of action was a menu of smaller items, like a slimmer version of a background checks bill and “red flag” laws, which allow the authorities to temporarily confiscate firearms from those who are found by a judge to be a danger to themselves or to others.
A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The left has really overplayed their hand and engaged in significant Red Flag abuse in many states across the country already. Since Trump is already dealing with a malicious prosecution of his own, he probably was spoken to enough by enough 2A people to make the connection and 'get it'.
It is also quite evident that a lot societal problems in terms of criminals, addicts, and the chronically homeless are rooted in mental health issues that require mental institutions we don't have sufficient numbers of.
Not only the ERPO stuff but the left has come unhinged and going for flat out confiscation
Well... that too.
Makes it obvious that there is no 'compromise'. One side wants it all and is willing to stamp a boot on your face until they have it or you are dead.
Well... that too.
Makes it obvious that there is no 'compromise'. One side wants it all and is willing to stamp a boot on your face until they have it or you are dead.
The only good thing now is that they have gone too far too long to walk it back and say "Just kidding" or "That's not what I really ment."
Great point. They showed their cards.The only good thing now is that they have gone too far too long to walk it back and say "Just kidding" or "That's not what I really ment."
"Donk Pivot" needs to be a meme, complete with cartoon illustrations.Dont be surprised when Dems pivot on gun control and try to use the courts to involuntarily commit people/political enemies....
Well... that too.
Makes it obvious that there is no 'compromise'. One side wants it all and is willing to stamp a boot on your face until they have it or you are dead.
We have some screwy laws here in NH that are prime/ripe for abuse.....
Commission wants to create mental health courts statewide
So...https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/22/trump-gun-control-background/
The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would use Google, Amazon and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
The proposal is part of an initiative to create a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), which would be located inside the Health and Human Services Department, the report notes, citing sources inside the administration. The new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for appointing its director.
HARPA would take after Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which serves as the research arm for the Pentagon. The idea was first crafted in 2017 but has since gotten a renewed push after mass shootings killed 31 people in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in August.
The Suzanne Wright Foundation approached the president recently and proposed the agency include a project called Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes, or Safe Home, the report notes, citing two people familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump has a close relationship with Bob Wright, who founded the foundation after his wife died of cancer. Wright was a former chair of NBC and occupied that position while the president hosted “The Apprentice.” (RELATED: 20 People Dead After El Paso Shooting, Governor Says)
HARPA would develop “breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence,” according to a copy of the proposal. “A multi-modality solution, along with real-time data analytics, is needed to achieve such an accurate diagnosis.”
The document lists several technologies that could be employed to help collect information, including Apple Watches, Amazon Echo and Google Home. Geoffrey Ling, the lead scientific adviser on HARPA, told reporters Thursday the plan would require enormous amounts of data and “scientific rigor.”
He added: “Everybody would be a volunteer. We’re not inventing new science here. We’re analyzing it so we can develop new approaches.” The White House declined to provide the Daily Caller News Foundation with a statement but sources told WaPo that Trump has reacted “very positively” to the proposal — it is unclear if he has seen the Safe Home idea.
Google and Amazon have also not responded to the DCNF’s requests for comment.
Trump said mentally ill people are responsible for the uptick in mass shootings. “I do want people to remember the words ‘mental illness.’ These people are mentally ill. … I think we have to start building institutions again because, you know, if you look at the ’60s and ’70s, so many of these institutions were closed,” he said on Aug. 15. The president has also floatedthe possibility of supporting background checks.
The president has an icy relationship with both Google and Amazon. Trump told his Twitter followers Monday that Google manipulated votes to help former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential election. “My victory was even bigger than thought!” he added. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has long been a whipping boy for the president.
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Good, deport them all.
I thought they would be HARD TO FIND, but if they know most of them already.....