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Switzerland does well with guns.

We don't often talk about this in the limelight, but it's important. We need to understand how they got here if we want to have any hope of reducing the odds of that happening again.

That takes time to find out, give it a few days.

I feel like if someone’s posting “I wanna do a mass shooting” something should happen.

People have been asking this same question since Columbine. It can be done, but no matter where you are, the point of interception between the perpetrator of a crime and their victims is the state. "See something, say something," sure. But to whom?

In the US, it's the police, and that's exactly why it doesn't work here: more often than not, the police are NOT here to serve the community. With some exceptions, generally speaking, police and police departments exist to serve the state and the wealthy, to provide security theater, to cosplay with weaponry, to feed the criminal justice system and the prison labor enterprise with a constant supply of offenders, to make a career out of hunting and/or hurting people who can't fight back if that's what makes them feel alive, and to make serious coin for themselves and the industries that have built up around them.

If you were to call the police in the US and say you'd seen something concerning on someone else's social media, the first person investigated would not necessarily be that person, nor their posts, but you. You are the lowest hanging fruit. Hypothetically, you could notify some mandated reporter and they could report it, but they would not necessarily be heard either.

If a crime is not reported, it never happened and no one has to deal with it, so the bar to even submit a police report anymore is pretty high. But let's say you get that far. Now someone who actually gives a shit has to follow up on it, and with enough human sensitivity and intelligence to make the right determinations in a highly volatile situation. It could be serious, it could be a hoax, they have no idea and they have to tread carefully.

Sounds doable, but think again: if you're an employee in a system that literally exists to place blame, maybe you already know you want nothing to do with it if it goes bad and would rather not be the fall guy for whoever dies, and now somehow that well-meaning citizen's report gets lost. So now the shooter shoots, people die, but the cop got home safe and nobody's blaming him for it today, and all he had to do was misfile a report, which he knows the guys at the top will cover up for the sake of their own positions even if they figure it out, and they probably don't even want to know. Win/win for that cop all around.

So if the police -- the ones with the actual state-sponsored and paid responsibility to intercept the shooter and the authority and equipment to do so -- cannot or will not listen to the citizens who actually see this not-yet-committed crime in progress before it happens, who will?

It could work in the UK, for example, and in other parts of the world where talking to the police is not usually the first of a very bad string of events, but not here in the US. The part of the social contract where we pay taxes and in return we have reliable police who exist to serve their community and not just skim it for fun and profit is LONG gone.

TL;DR: If you want to fix suspected mass shooter reporting, you first have to fix the cops, IMO.

NB: I wrote this, but I do not condone ANY of these behaviors. There was a time when cops were good people and lived in the neighborhoods they genuinely did serve, but I'm old and that world doesn't exist anymore.

I mean in the US, threatening to murder someone is a crime. I'm sure it is there too.

Love the innovation! It's not easy making everything about America, but by god people always find a way!

I believe that's a cop pictured in the thumbnail