WASHINGTON, DC

“WE KNOW WHO we’re looking for: these copycat shooters are usually white, middle-class young men who fit these categories: loser, loaner, nerd or dork. Sometimes all of them. Indeed, these guys eerily mirror many of their Islamist counterparts in their backgrounds and the way they secretly become radicalized. So if we had a database of these people, our computers could probably point out the real dangers as opposed to the sad, pathetic nobodies.”

Professor Orwell Winston was addressing a conference of secret police in Berlin when he was asked a question about the killing of American Influencer Charlie Kirk. “If the FBI put out request for white American families – and they are usually white – to identify any sons who fit my categories, then it might be possible to reach these guys before they act,” he added. “And save lives.”