Donald Trump has been briefed on hi-tech scheme to set up early warning for potential mass shooters

A foundation seeking cutting-edge biomedical solutions has pitched the White House on a proposal to use Alexa, Apple Watch, and Google Home to gather information that might anticipate potential mass shooter events, as the president continues to focus on mental illness in response to a succession of tragedies.  

The proposal, advanced by the Suzanne Wright Foundation, is part of a pitch to create a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency – a tribute to the successful defense research function of similarly named DARPA. 

Foundation officials briefed the White House on the proposal last month, the Washington Post reported. 

President Donald Trump’s White House has been briefed on a cutting-edge biomedical solutions proposal that would use data from products like Alexa and Apple watches to seek to identify potential mass shooter events

After promoting the idea in President Trump’s first year, officials pitched it again following the shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso Texas, under the acronym SAFE HOME, or ‘Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes.’

The HARPA proposal, though not necessarily the project seeking to anticipate shooters, has made it up to the presidential level, according to the Post.

Under Safe Home, the latest in-home gadgets would help seek out ‘neurobehavioral signs’ of people potentially on the edge.

Bob Wright, the former chairman of NBC when Trump’s ‘The Apprentice’ was on the air, has pitched the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump on the idea. Wright, who created the foundation when his wife died of pancreatic cancer, knows President Trump.

Amazon's Echo Dot is among the technologies mentioned in a briefing paper about the proposal

Amazon’s Echo Dot is among the technologies mentioned in a briefing paper about the proposal

The proposal also identifies Apple Watch as a potential source of information

The proposal also identifies Apple Watch as a potential source of information

Rapid reaction SWAT members leave the scene of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood on October 27, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. According to reports, at least 12 people were shot, 4 dead and three police officers hurt during the incident. The shooter surrendered to authorities and was taken into custody. Trump has homed in on mental illness, rather than gun control, following mass shootings

Rapid reaction SWAT members leave the scene of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood on October 27, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. According to reports, at least 12 people were shot, 4 dead and three police officers hurt during the incident. The shooter surrendered to authorities and was taken into custody. Trump has homed in on mental illness, rather than gun control, following mass shootings

First responders near the entrance of Christmas Hill Park, where the Gilroy Garlic Festival was coming to an end of the last day where an active gunman fired upon patrons killing three and injuring around 15 people in Gilroy, California, USA, 28 July 2019

First responders near the entrance of Christmas Hill Park, where the Gilroy Garlic Festival was coming to an end of the last day where an active gunman fired upon patrons killing three and injuring around 15 people in Gilroy, California, USA, 28 July 2019

A proposal says the SAFE HOME proposal would rely on ‘breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence.’

Those devices would include Amazon’s Alexa, Apple watches, Fitbits, and Google Home, along with the latest medical technology. 

However far-fetched, the idea could have currency in the White House in part because of an intense presidential focus on mental illness, rather than gun restrictions, as an area for action following a spate of mass shootings that have shocked the nation. 

‘I support safety for our citizens. I support keeping guns out of the hand of sick people, mentally ill people and I also support something having to do with mental illness,’ Trump said Wednesday. ‘We have to get these people off the streets. 

Trump continues to entertain the idea of doing something to do with background checks, but backed off a proposal for checks on all gun purchases immediately after the shooting.

Mitch McConnell said he'd be happy to bring any gun legislation to the Senate floor that Donald Trump said he would sign into law

Mitch McConnell said he’d be happy to bring any gun legislation to the Senate floor that Donald Trump said he would sign into law

‘We’re looking at something things that are very strong, and we have to do it in a bipartisan way,’ Trump said Wednesday. ‘I would like to see … something happen. I would like to see it happen soon,’ he said, a day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a plea for more direction from the president. 

 ‘If the president took a position on a bill so that we knew we would actually be making a law and not just having serial votes, I’d be happy to put it on the floor,’ McConnell said Tuesday. 

McConnell’s comments come after seven people were killed and 22 people were injured in a mass shooting in Odessa, Texas, on Sunday. 

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