House passes bipartisan bill to create active shooter alert system

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House passes bipartisan bill to create active shooter alert system

The bill would create an Amber alert-like network to notify the public about active shooters.

www.nbcnews.com

The bill would create an Amber alert-like network to notify the public about active shooters.


July 14, 2022, 8:20 AM EDT
By Rebecca Shabad

WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation Wednesday that would create an Amber-alert-like system for active shooter situations.

In a 260-169 vote, lawmakers approved the Active Shooter Alert Act, which was sponsored by Reps. David Cicilline, D-R.I., and Fred Upton, R-Mich. The bill now heads to the Senate.

Nearly all votes in opposition were Republicans, with the exception of Democratic Rep. Ron Kind, of Wisconsin, who is not running for reelection. Forty-three Republicans voted in favor of the measure.

The measure would allow law enforcement to deploy the alert system in emergency situations and notify the public about active shooters.

Cicilline and Upton said it could be used in situations like what unfolded after the mass shooting in Highland Park, Ill., on the Fourth of July, when the suspected gunman was at large for eight hours and was able to drive to Wisconsin. Another situation when the alert system could have been used was in April, when a suspect was at large for about 29 hours after allegedly shooting people at a subway station in Brooklyn.

In active shooter events, authorities have had to resort to using Twitter and social media to tell the public about the situation, Cicilline said.

"This is terribly inefficient and dangerous," he said in a statement. "Law enforcement needs and deserves better tools than Twitter to communicate with the community and the Active Shooter Alert Act answers that call."


Upton said in a statement that the alert system would allow police and first responders "to focus on ending the situation and saving lives." He said he heard from "law enforcement and police chiefs that active shooter alerts can be a vital tool to provide accurate, real-time information to our communities, and one they believe will help in these dangerous situations."

Passage of the bill in the House comes after a spate of mass shootings in the U.S. in recent months, including in Buffalo, N.Y., Uvalde, Texas, and Highland Park. In late June, President Joe Biden signed the most sweeping legislation aimed at preventing gun violence in 30 years, which was crafted in response to the massacres.

 

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[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I mean it doesn’t really solve anything.


Every bill that has passed so far essentially copes with guns. They’re saying, we’re not banning guns, but this is how you can cope with guns being all over the place.

If someone is actively shooting, how is an amber alert going to help the people being shot or shot at. How does it prevent anyone from being shot or shot at in the first place.


They should ban guns period.

Millions will not turn them in and go to great lengths to hide them, which is why there should be rewards for turning in people with illegal guns.

 

[George's Dilemma]

How messed up would it be to be hiding from a mass shooter only for your phone to go off with a mass shooter alert and he hears it.

 

[Reflected]

H.R.6538 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022

Summary of H.R.6538 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022

www.congress.gov

Bill Summary:

This bill requires a designated officer of the Department of Justice to act as the national coordinator of an Active Shooter Alert Communications Network regarding an emergency involving an active shooter.

The bill sets forth duties of the coordinator, including to work with state, tribal, and local governments to encourage coordination of various elements of the network. The coordinator must also encourage federal, state, local, and tribal government agencies to establish procedures for responding to active shooters.

Finally, the bill requires the Government Accountability Office to study and report on state and local responses to active shooters and situations requiring the issuance of a public alert or warning.

So, it should be noted this bill originally failed as a bipartisan effort, it did not reach the 2/3 requirement to rush the bill because of republicans (259 - 162) and it had to be passed by a simple majority.

So look at the summary of the bill and note the Republican response.


I'm thinking we should have a big thread, I guess in HL, with a categorized approach to disproving this "both sides" shyt. It could serve as a simple reference to immediately highlight these bad faith actors, and could extend beyond this site, as an effort to combat that rhetoric anywhere. A lot people aren't even aware of bills being passed or failed. Something like that could be very useful.

 

[Bud Bundy]

Does nothing

They don't want to treat the problem.

 

[King Poetic]

These laws isn’t going to change shyt

It’s just something for them to say “look we doing something “

 

[DonB90]

We deserve this level on incompetence

 

[Worthless Loser]

If America didn't have such a gun fetish we wouldn't need to be thinking about laws like this in the first place.

 

[Reflected]

I mean it doesn’t really solve anything.


Every bill that has passed so far essentially copes with guns. They’re saying, we’re not banning guns, but this is how you can cope with guns being all over the place.

If someone is actively shooting, how is an amber alert going to help the people being shot or shot at. How does it prevent anyone from being shot or shot at in the first place.


They should ban guns period.

Millions will not turn them in and go to great lengths to hide them, which is why there should be rewards for turning in people with illegal guns.

I see your point, but you should read the bill summary to see how ridiculous Republicans are on this issue.


And I would suggest reading the bill in it's entirety:

Text - H.R.6538 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022

Text for H.R.6538 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022

www.congress.gov

Further proof that Republicans need to go, immediately, they can't be reasoned with even on clear matters to promote safety. Anyone that has an issue with this or think it's useless, should recognize that while this bill is a step forward towards ensuring safety measures in response to an active shooting, it's also proactive in that regard if you read the bill, but it also reveals that Republicans won't even be in favor of something as simple as this in relation to guns.

 

[Taadow]

If America didn't have such a gun fetish we wouldn't need to be thinking about laws like this in the first place.

That’s not gonna go away.
America was founded on guns - there’s a reason why it’s Amendment #2
They will never ban guns

 

[Reflected]

We deserve this level on incompetence

Incompetence on the side of Republicans, right? Have you read the bill in its entirety? All of these are reasonable measures and the Republicans striked it down in a bipartisan effort, this bill had to be passed with a simple majority.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

They refuse to anything about guns but will pass shytty bills that will never directly address the issue. fukking cowards, how many more kids have to die? I get if their children were in that class room they’d feel differently about all of this.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I see your point, but you should read the bill summary to see how ridiculous Republicans are on this issue.


And I would suggest reading the bill in it's entirety:

Text - H.R.6538 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022

Text for H.R.6538 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022

www.congress.gov

Further proof that Republicans need to go, immediately, they can't be reasoned with even on clear matters to promote safety. Anyone that has an issue with this or think it's useless, should recognize that while this bill is a step forward towards ensuring safety measures in response to an active shooting, it's also proactive in that regard if you read the bill, but it also reveals that Republicans won't even be in favor of something as simple as this in relation to guns.

If it doesn’t including banning all assault weapons, military grade weapons and restricting all gun permits, then I don’t need to read it.

The second amendment has been blurred and misinterpreted so much that it’s virtually meaningless.


All of these laws and bills are reactionary. What you can do after the shots are fired. And the mental health bullshyt is only more of a reason to ban guns. You got all of these mentally unstable people walking around with guns all over the place.