U.S. Attorney General
William Barr on Wednesday announced an effort to prevent mass shootings through court-ordered counseling and supervision of potentially violent individuals.
The effort, announced in a memo to federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials, follows dozens of deadly mass shootings in the
United States this year, including a massacre of 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso,
Texas, and another just one day later in Dayton, Ohio, in which nine people were killed.
The
FBI has at times struggled to identify home-grown threats, which often develop with little warning.