[pjc50]

Enough people have shot up schools that I think some sort of response to "I'm going to kill people at school" is warranted. A conviction may not be the best outcome, but I don't think it's entirely safe to ignore all of them.

[Houshalter]

I guarantee it will be 99.99% false positives. Until people learn to censor themselves.

But that's really irrelevant. The government shouldn't have the right to spy on people's private conversations, if they aren't suspects. Whether they occur in real life or on the internet is irrelevant. And people shouldn't live in fear of saying the wrong thing and being taken away, like they were in 1984.

[bruceboughton]

In the UK, there isn't a day that goes by without me muttering something about killing one of my colleagues.

Thankfully in the UK, I do not really have the means to do this so it is obviously interpreted as an exagerated expression of annoyance.

In the US, the possibility of every exagerated threat being an actual, actionable threat is much higher.

Censorship is not the answer.

[amirmc]

How about trying to understand and deal with the root-cause of people shooting up schools?

[pbhjpbhj]

You can do both.