Government and law enforcement officials are scrambling to produce plans to allay public fears, including automatic prosecutions of anyone over the age of 16 caught with a knife.
But what we must not do is to give anybody automatic immunity from prosecution.
Another would give outgoing presidents a seat in the National Assembly for five years, and with it automatic immunity from prosecution.
Last week, Italy's highest court removed the prime minister's automatic immunity from prosecution, and he is holding on to his parliamentary majority by a thread.
At issue is a mischievous ruling last year by an appellate court in Virginia, which held that a failure to issue Miranda warnings no longer required automatic exclusion in federal prosecutions of the evidence obtained.
The prosecution calculated that this automatic process had occurred 948 times over a ten-year period.
In general, the prosecution of crimes in lawful societies is not automatic, but subject to the public interest.
ThinkBig has already received a number of ideas for potential policy, including automatic voter registration, discharging student loan debt and eliminating secret grand juries for police prosecutions.
Automatic identification of source code authors has many applications in different fields such as source code plagiarism detection, and law suit prosecution.
