SNA could save innocent lives. Maybe…

Terrorism is a very tricky thing, especially when the bomber does not wear a big enough turban, so he could be spotted from miles away… It is very hard to be prevented. Sometimes it is impossible, because you always hear on the news: “…it was such a polite man, very respectful with older people…”, still he had just killed a dozen people…

This might have also been the case in the most recent school shooting in USA. It happened on Friday, Dec 16^th 2012, in Newtown, Conn, USA, where a gunman killed more than two dozen people, including 18 school kids. Unbelievable!

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/18-children-9-others-dead-in-school-shooting-ap-2012-12-14

Maybe, and I stress MAYBE, this incident could have been prevented by prior SNA constant monitoring, in case the shooter connected with people known to be fanatic or just completely crazy. Or maybe he was a constant reader of “Idiot’s guide to school shooting”… Or maybe he was a subscriber of “School shooting today” magazine… Maybe…

Of course, there is the problem with PRIVACY and whether or not our private life should remain private… But hadn’t you happily gave up your own privacy, if you only knew that this could have saved the lives of 18 school children?!?? Maybe some readers of this blog post are still nodding their heads thinking about privacy issues. Ask the parents of the dead kids… Are they still thinking about “privacy”?!??

There is of course the possibility that this individual’s reading or web-surfing behavior was not connected to his mental issues. Still, there are big chances that mental cases like this do not go crazy instantly…

There is also another issue, that the loss of privacy might be used for not so well intended purposes by “mean” governments…

But the fact remains: a wide and constant SNA might have prevented this from happening!