I can't imagine that anything will go wrong. /s
anything but the actual, common sense, solution
They don't do common sense over there.
That one kid with a flipper zero: hold my juice box
It is so much worse than that
What happens when they can't figure out who compromised the device?
Ah, sniper drones. Like the ones Israel has been using to shoot children in the head.
Tried and tested on Palestinian children, now ready for the open market.
Everything except getting rid of guns.
What a rotten shithole of a country.
The only way you're going to get rid of billions of guns is if you have a magic genie or a monkey paw.
If our country actually cared and was a force of good and peace, we would have a long-term plan for things like buyback as well as strict regulations and MAYBE in a hundred years we would be gun-free for the most part, but the guns are only half the problem.
The problem is the lack of community and the atomization of our feelings and perspectives. People don't shoot up schools when they feel loved, connected and unafraid of their future. When people have something to live for, they want to help each other see that future.
That's the rotten part, that's where our country is dying. We drank too deep of the well of "rugged individualism" and now everyone is wandering around like it's a video game and NPC's don't deserve second thought.
Snort idea. Get there fast and get them down. If, as the article says, the most deaths happen in the first 120 seconds, then time is of the essence to stop them as quickly as possible.
Then again, they could just start feeding people properly and make guns harder to get. But since those are apparently not an option, I guess this is a "best of a bad situation" kind of deal.
Snort idea.
Nailed it! Anyone have more cocaine?
Wait until the bullied nerd learns to hack that system and sends the armed drones to exterminate the jocks.
That could never happen. The manufacturer assured parents their proprietary software is unhackable.
Fortunately they are currently only equipped with non lethal capabilities. So it's going to be fun to watch the consequences of someone hacking into them and people to realize how much of a bad idea this was
"Our drones can create a distraction." Yeah, from gun control.
This is called over-engineering the solution
I mean, not really. Cause it's not even a solution.
It's more likely a grift some politician is using to pay a friend some money to play with drones.
Yep, these definitely won't get hacked
Damn, even school shooters get to work from home now.
I'm trying to imagine something like this getting installed in my old school in the UK, and it's so bizarre and totally removed from my reality growing up that I can't even picture it.
The whole concept of a robot armed with a lethal weapon just sitting there in my classroom each and every day, waiting for someone in a remote control centre to decide that someone in the room should be killed? I think that would traumatize me a little even if there never was an attack.
Shit. They still haven't thought of the obvious solution.
Gator's with mounted guns. You're right!
wait, how are they going to "test" this?
Recess.
This is so much better than passing common sense gun laws.
Reminds me of the short film Slaughterbots from a while back. 7 years later and it doesn't seem all that much like fiction anymore...
that little film is scary as shit and was always destined to come true
Reminds me of the "well programmed" turrets outside the jail in Idiocracy, the ones that shoot each other...
Of course the password to the school's drone control system was just "admin1234"
It's on. Shooters will now respond with armed drones.
government to use air strikes to prevent drone powered school shootings
ED-209: CITIZEN, DROP THE WEAPON. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
Random Kid: B...b... But I don't even have a weapon!
ED-209: YOU NOW HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY. 9. 8. 7...
Random Kid: W...w... We were just shooting spit balls! It's just a straw, please!
ED-209: WEAPON CONFIRMED, ARMING RAIL GUN.
kid reduced to fine red mist
ED-209: TARGET NEUTRALIZED. STATE IF PARENTS SHOULD BE NOTIFIED THROUGH TEXT.
no response
ED-209: VERY WELL, ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR SCHOOL DAY.
drone flies off
When they'll resort to deadly sky robots to "protect" children before they'll regulate who can have access to firearms...
Often we see people being demonised and dehumanized for political purposes. Americans basically dehumanize themselves.
As a parent I can't think of anything much more traumatic than losing a child to a gun massacre. It makes me furious. Watching Americans passively do nothing about this for decades has gone from infuriating to blame. I can't relate to them anymore.
I didn't make them sub-human by questioning their race or religion or politics. They made themselves sub-human by ignoring the most basic moral and ethical requirements of human society and family. Watching them kill each other won't bring me joy but it doesn't outrage me as much as watching people in war torn countries being massacred in conflicts over which they had no control.
This was a choice from a weak broken society.
I don't see this going wrong at all. Do you know how long a drone battery lasts? Do you trust AI to pick out the right kids to shoot?
Wtf timeline am I in?
Anything besides sensible gun control.
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is... An idiot with a drone?
At a demonstration of the drones at AcadeMir Preparatory High School in South Miami-Dade, the company showed how the drones are capable of using what the company calls “kinetic energy hits” to knock someone over.
I can’t even with this shit 😝
Thank god merica ha the right to bear arms against the tyranny. ... ... Any time now ... ... Someone.
Skynet for brown people
Oh no, now the shooters have drones!
Stole it from the school.
Having attended school this hypothetical is entirely 100% plausible. More children will be killed by these drones then they end up protecting.
Is the idea to stop a kid from killing their classmates by killing everyone before they get the chance?
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