I can't imagine that anything will go wrong. /s

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.

anything but the actual, common sense, solution

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.

theres some gnarly drones. like explosive drones that travel in groups of hundreds. theres nothing you can do when a sea of drones come at you endlessly.

Yep, these definitely won't get hacked

That one kid with a flipper zero: hold my juice box

I think this seems ridiculous, but there is a genuine problem that isn't being solved in better ways, and a police force who refuse to enter a school under an active threat until it's too late. I guess something is better than nothing?

Once the drones are taken over by child-shooter hackers, ICBM launches against random schools will be used as a deterrent. Failing that all schools will be closed and the problem with "school shootings" will finally be solved! /s

I see no possibility of this going wrong. /s

I wonder who is manufacturing the drones...

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.

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...

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

I've been predicting that terrorist (aka conservatives in the US) will start using them from long range soon. I'm surprised that this didn't start happening sooner but I guess people of that disposition aren't very clever so it's taken a whole lot longer to catch on.

This is called over-engineering the solution

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.

Anything besides sensible gun control.

Shit. They still haven't thought of the obvious solution.

"Our drones can create a distraction." Yeah, from gun control.