What can a hacker do about gun violence?
tokenadult: I think hackers need to hack a new social response to mass shooting incidents. Currently there is saturation news coverage of such incidents, and much speculation of what "drove" the shooter to kill many people, often just before the shooter kills himself. Maybe video game designers need to build in scenes in the games where a mass murderer has survivors desecrate his grave and curse him as a cowardly loser, rather than seeming to glorify mass violence. Maybe news media coverage of such incidents needs to be more subdued. (I've read that news outlets are encouraged NOT to report suicide clusters, to avoid triggering copy-cat clusters of suicides in other places.) Lots of people own guns and never use them in any harmful way, and a sufficiently crazy person can use a car or a common household chemical to kill multiple people. There needs to be a social consensus that (this will sound very harsh) the murder-suicide perpetrator should just eliminate the middleman and kill himself without harming innocent bystanders. The more mass murder can be held up to shame and disgust rather than amazement, the better.