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Armed drones to be deployed at schools to stop mass shooters (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The drones, stored in secure boxes on campus, can be deployed within five seconds of silent panic buttons being activated. The devices—operated remotely by a team in Texas—provide constant live video feeds to first responders and, in some cases, fire nonlethal projectiles to delay or incapacitate an assailant.

To me, these aren't a bad idea. Immediate response and non-ISH-lethal. They are simply the progression of enforcement technology.

What they are not, is a solution to school shootings. They are not even a bandaid. Some people (law makers) just don't seem to know what "prevention" means.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You said

To me, these aren’t a bad idea.

and yet you also said

The devices—operated remotely by a team in Texas

in the very same post.

I wouldn't want some bored trigger happy gun nutjob from Texas playing shoot the bad guys with pepper spray on a games console where my kids and their multi ethnic friends are the NPCs.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 4 days ago

That's a fair assessment. I'm guessing it's that way because that's where the company that operates this is. Which, now that I think about it, probably is a poor way to manage the whole program.

So I'll post-edit to say: "with local pilot and oversight"

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

~~nonlethal~~ less lethal

Understandable, common typo in MY GUNS! land.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

stored in secure boxes on campus, can be deployed within five seconds of silent panic buttons being activated

So much about that sentence doesn't make sense though...

"secure boxes" but "a button can open them" also "silent panic" with "drones out within 5 seconds"

In any event, the 'nonlethal' is generally considered a bad descriptor versus 'less than lethal', unless they are talking about something merely mildly annoying rather than the usual things like rubber or bag rounds.