The only way to deal with any form of mass shooting is to have systems in public places that can automatically detect and disable the shooter within milliseconds of their first shot.  Anything else - encryption backdoors, etc. - is absolutely pointless and will at best prevent only a small percentage of incidents.  If you want to deal with the problem, do it directly.<p>We all know that while terrorism gives these initiatives fuel, they ultimately have little to do with terrorism and much more to do with governments wanting as much surveillance and control over their populations as possible.  The odds of dying in a terrorist attack are approximately 1 in 20 million; for comparison, you are 25X more likely to die by drowning in a bathtub and 1,000X more likely to die in a car crash [1].  If terrorists are 1&#x2F;25th as effective at killing people as bathtubs, how many of our civil liberties should we be willing to give up to stop them?<p>There are currently at least 3,278 prisoners in the US serving life without parole for non-violent offenses [2].  Perhaps we should stop terrorizing our own citizens before we worry about foreign terrorists that can&#x27;t even keep up with bathtubs.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;06&#x2F;how-scared-of-terrorism-should" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;reason.com&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;06&#x2F;how-scared-of-terrori...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;assets&#x2F;111813-lwop-complete-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aclu.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;assets&#x2F;111813-lwop-complete-repor...</a>