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US Attorney General Calls for Counseling, Intervention to Prevent Mass
Shootings

Reuters

   WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General William BarronWednesdayannounced a
   new effort to prevent mass
   shootings through court-ordered counseling and supervision
   ofpotentially violent individuals.

   The effort, announced in a memo to federal prosecutors andlaw
   enforcement officials, followeddozens of deadly massshootings in the
   United States this year, including a massacre
   of 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and another justone day
   later in Dayton, Ohio, in which nine people were killed.

   The FBI was given expanded powers after the Sept. 11, 2001,attacks to
   investigate foreignterrorismthreats. But it has attimes struggled to
   track homegrown threats and was criticizedfor not doing more after
   receiving warnings about a gunman whowas later responsible for the
   February 2018 mass shooting at ahigh school in Parkland, Florida.

   Shooters' motivation

   Lawmakers are considering whether new laws are needed tohelp
   investigate those who are motivated by white supremacy,anti-Semitism
   and other extreme ideologies that are protected bytheU.S.
   Constitution's free-speech safeguards.

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