Axon — the company that crafted a pseudo-scientific form of plausible deniability for cops who've killed people — now wants to modify the ever-popular (and patently ridiculous) maxim "The only person who can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
There were plenty of "good" guys with guns present at the last major school shooting. They did nothing to stop the killing. Instead, they huddled a safe distance away until another law enforcement agency showed up to actually stop the school shooter.
If law enforcement can't handle mass shootings quickly and competently (and agencies have given us little indication that they can), they certainly shouldn't be entrusted with an airborne weapon now being pushed by a company that sees shootings like the one in Uvalde, Texas as another way to bump year-over-year sales increases.
Here's the EFF's take on this announcement of Axon's armed drone proposal:
Taser and surveillance vendor Axon has proposed what it claims to be the solution to the epidemic of school shootings in the United States: a remote-controlled flying drone armed with a taser. For many many reasons, this is a dangerous idea. Armed drones would mission-creep their way into more every-day policing. We must oppose a process of normalizing the arming of drones and robots.
Here's Axon's far more cheery take on the addition of Taser devices to drones:
Put together, these two technologies may effectively combat mass shootings. In brief, non-lethal drones can be installed in schools and other venues and play the same role that sprinklers and other fire suppression tools do for firefighters: Preventing a catastrophic event, or at least mitigating its worst effects.
A lot, said its ethics board, nine of whose members resigned over the idea.
[...] "It's such an obviously bad idea to use these in the context of schools. I mean, it's absurd," said Ryan Calo, one of nine members of Axon's artificial-intelligence ethics advisory board who resigned to protest the company's pursuit of the idea. "You cannot address these horrific national tragedies ... by throwing a Taser on a drone."
[...] "Before Axon's announcement, we pleaded with the company to pull back," the members said. "But the company charged ahead in a way that struck many of us as trading on the tragedy of the Uvalde and Buffalo shootings. ... [It] is more than any of us can abide."
Amazing technoillogical advances like this will make our schools a much more gooder place. I hope they remembered to make these drones connected to the cloud.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @04:44PM (11 children)
The fact that this conflation has been allowed to continue... 30 years after the first tasers went into use, and years after cattle prods had been available is appalling. Tasers may reduce the risks of fatalities compared to firearms or even batons, but they are far from 'safe and people pretending they are should be tased until proven safe, or dead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @05:01PM (10 children)
Nobody cares about accidentally killing a school shooter with a taser.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday June 09 2022, @05:08PM (2 children)
Forget about petty minor offenders like school shooters -- who we don't even care about as a nation. At least we don't care enough to do anything about it.
Focus on much bigger offenses such as chewing gum or running in the hallways. THOSE offenders are who this weapon will ultimately be used on. Oh, and talking back to teachers. Especially that.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @09:04PM
You see the difference is that school shooters kill in their schools but littering happens on my sidewalks.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Reziac on Friday June 10 2022, @02:22AM
Parallel thought -- what this really does is normalize fulltime surveillance-with-enforcement, given schools are always full of kids, but almost never full of shooters.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @05:18PM (1 child)
You should, these crimes are more or less extremely public suicides. The presence of an armed response is a pro, not a con for them. The fact that this is less than lethal might actually be beneficial.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @07:17PM
n/t
(Score: 3, Interesting) by SpockLogic on Thursday June 09 2022, @08:11PM (2 children)
Oh School Resource Officers (SROs) Are Not Effective in Improving School Safety, Discipline or Climate. https://www.clccrul.org/blog/2020/6/23/research-sros [clccrul.org]
Don't try and turn schools into prisons and keep the jackbooted thugs out of them.
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @10:29PM (1 child)
From the Chicago Lawyers for Civil Rights. Ha!
They got rid of the school cops in the urban counties next to mine for social justice. Violence by the students went way up. The progressive school districts in those counties (diverse counties) are now eating their words and bringing back the cops! The experiment was run and the results were clear, but not what they expected.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @06:30AM
Yeah, sure they did! But you realize that Ukraine is hardly a representative situation, right? (Stupid fucking conservative Azoz guys!)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Thursday June 09 2022, @09:55PM (1 child)
The problem isn't accidentally killing a school shooter with a taser. It's about accidentally killing a kid, who wasn't a school shooter. Or do you think there won't be any "accidents"?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/06/taser-drone-school-shootings-clash/ [washingtonpost.com]
I mean, sure, let's go ahead and throw a taser on a drone and make sure there's a fleet to respond for every school. What's the worst that could happen?
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 4, Touché) by PiMuNu on Thursday June 09 2022, @11:15PM
[for demonstration, Mr. Kinney points a pistol at ED-209]
ED-209: [menacingly] Please put down your weapon. You have twenty seconds to comply.
Dick Jones: I think you'd better do what he says, Mr. Kinney.
[Mr. Kinney drops the pistol on the floor. ED-209 advances, growling]
ED-209: You now have fifteen seconds to comply.
[Mr. Kinney turns to Dick Jones, who looks nervous]
ED-209: You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9.
[entire room of people in full panic trying to stay out of the line of fire, especially Mr. Kinney]
ED-209: You have five seconds to comply.
Kinney: Help...! Help me!
ED-209: Four... three... two... one... I am now authorized to use physical force!
[ED-209 opens fire and shreds Mr. Kinney]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Barenflimski on Thursday June 09 2022, @04:50PM (3 children)
Whats next, "Tasers didn't take out guy in full body armor, so we decided on guns."
All of this is totally crazy to me. I enjoy guns, but locking our kids into hardened buildings, scarring the crap out of them, running them through 'active shooter' drills, isn't OK.
I think of the folks that keep complaining about indoctrination. One would think folks worried about that would definitely not want this type of indoctrination either. Just think about what happened after our parents and grand-parents were run through nuclear drills? They spent their entire lives fighting against Nuclear anything. Seems to me that its pretty clear where this will go for this next generation.
I suppose I'll end up watching it all from my rocking chair, shaking my head, taking my pills.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 09 2022, @05:10PM (2 children)
Put weapons on a Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Barenflimski on Thursday June 09 2022, @05:17PM
I left them a comment under one of their youtube videos to ask them to never arm them, so likely that won't happen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @06:38PM
Like a squirt gun?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday June 09 2022, @05:21PM (2 children)
If the majority of Axon's Bored Of Ethics members resigned over tasers on drones for schools, maybe Axon doesn't really need them? They just stand in the way of putting more weapons into schools which can be misused for ever more trivial offenses.
Once thoroughly tested in schools, law enforcement could move these weaponized drones out into city streets to boost sails.
What we need is more dark sarcasm in the classrooms.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @06:55PM
Taser door knobs in schools.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday June 10 2022, @09:45AM
They don't need them for their advice. They need them to be able to say: “See, we have an ethics board, thus you may assume that everything we do is ethical.”
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 09 2022, @05:42PM
So now the school shooters will need to be able to afford an AR-15 and a shotgun for the drones.
This is a sin tax the NRA can get onboard with!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @05:55PM (7 children)
Bullying was the motivation at columbine and continues to be a top motivation for school shootings https://www.alfred.edu/about/news/studies/lethal-school-violence/why-do-shootings.cfm [alfred.edu]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @05:56PM
Bullying is fun and easy. Cyberbullying even moreso. Yes, the campaign has failed.
(Score: 5, Touché) by DannyB on Thursday June 09 2022, @06:16PM (5 children)
When I was in high school, a very long time ago in the 70s, even some teachers were part of the bullies.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @09:37PM (4 children)
When I was in jr. high in the early 80s, I complained about a bully and not one but *two* teachers simultaneously went "Awwww..." in a derisive way. My how times have changed!
There's that part of me that hates the sensitive new world because I had to learn how to be *insensitive* and now they want me to learn how to be *sensitive*. Stupid little bitches.
Really though, I recognize it's the same attitude that perpetuates things like fraternity hazing. How about we just figure out what's intrinsically good for society and then NOT CHANGE IT?
That's the problem though. Figuring out what's good for society is HARD. Will today's sensitive kids get lured in to making deals with the likes of Putin because they can't conceive of evil that needs to be crushed with power, or will yesterday's insensitive adults become the likes of Putin?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @03:24AM (1 child)
Power looks for something to crush.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 10 2022, @02:03PM
Educators look for non-sports jocks to crush their spirit.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @07:06AM
There is an intrinsic difference that is not talked about with hazing. Hazing can seem bad to the person going through it, but at the end the victim is now a member of the group. It is a trial, a rite of passage if you will. Provided everyone in the group goes through it, it functions much like boot camp.
Bullying on the other hand is simply inflicting misery because the perpetrator is a sadistic shit who likes hurting weaker people.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @06:07PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by krishnoid on Thursday June 09 2022, @05:55PM
Go with a decidedly lower-tech solution [nypost.com]. There are more impressive ones [www.wvlt.tv] as well.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @06:20PM (3 children)
If your kid(s) are still in public school, you're an idiot.
Get your kids out of the camps while you still can.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @06:33PM
Teach your kids how to use rifles too.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @06:35AM (1 child)
Yes! Put you children into the Dominionist indoctrination camps, where they can become soldiers for God and Trump! Where they can learn the real truth, that is not true at all, and have mass orgies with the counselors at the summer "retreat". Maybe a nice Catholic school, instead, where they at least have some intellectual integrity?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @08:00PM
Learn how to kill neo-bolshiviks, shabbos goy race traitors and non-whites for RAHOWA! This world is all ours!
(Score: 3, Funny) by looorg on Thursday June 09 2022, @06:37PM
Dead or alive, you are coming with me! Or I guess it should be stunned unless the drone goes mental like ED and bbq the perp over and over again.
Hilarious when someone hacks the drone and keeps an entire school hostage unless ransom in bitcoin are paid out.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by higuita on Thursday June 09 2022, @07:48PM (5 children)
so several workarounds for this stupid idea:
- nets, a simple net can block the drone
- don't start shooting until he is inside a closed class room, and then can simply block the door with a chair or table
- eletric cloth to shield it, think in the chainmail with a ground cable, but do not need to be as heavy
- hard cloth, where the taser will not stick and so no shock
- water gun can possible damage the drone if not well isolated, specially a taser one!
- trigger the fire extinguish system, the water sprinklers can damage the drone, or at least block partially the camera
- other way around, start up fires, the smoke alone will block partially the camera
- simply do the shooting in other places... yes no more shooting in schools, just around it or in shopping malls or whatever kids go
why don't the politics understand that the problems are the guns and how easy they are to get and use and how "cool" guns are in american culture.
simply limit the access to guns, specially machine guns and high damage guns (shotguns, high calibre guns, etc)
make guns safer and lock the user to the gun
stop selling kits to modify guns in to more dangerous ones
Your liberty ends when in own liberty starts, if your guns are causing problems to other people liberty, they should be limited, no matter what
and stop showing guns as cool, stop bragging about guns in movies, stop gun shows, stop selling guns as popcorns
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 10 2022, @12:41AM (3 children)
IF. The vast majority of firearm owners aren't causing problems for anyone.
What happens if people simply just don't go along with that? For example, guns wouldn't be so prominent in movies, if people weren't watching those movies.
This just strikes me as yet another moral panic in a long line of them. It smells very similar to the prohibition movement in the US which managed to ban alcohol at one point with a variety of unintended adverse consequences such as stoking the rise of organized crime in the US and poisoning a bunch of people with industrial alcohol that had been made deliberately toxic.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @04:30AM
Funny that you should mention Prohibition. As you note, organized crime was a big problem, and fully automatic guns were used in a lot of violent crimes. The problem was so severe that the National Firearms Act was passed in 1934, which imposed very strong restrictions on fully automatic guns. It took a bit of time for banned guns to be taken out of circulation, so the impact wasn't immediate. However, very few crimes in the present day are committed with fully automatic guns. Yes, mass shootings occur, but the severity is mitigated because the shooters almost never have access to fully automatic guns. This is evidence that gun control is effective, though it's imperfect because the ban doesn't also cover semi-automatic guns.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @06:38AM
That still bothers you, khallow? Somebody in your family? Anyone we would know? Share, brother, and the next assault rifle is on me!
(Score: 2) by higuita on Sunday June 12 2022, @06:04AM
> IF. The vast majority of firearm owners aren't causing problems for anyone.
True, that is why that harder controls to sell arms are required... most people will pass them, but trouble makers may fail
> What happens if people simply just don't go along with that? For example, guns wouldn't be so prominent in movies, if people weren't watching those movies.
This part was not about laws, but people mind... after all, i had to rename databases, documentation, etc due to the master/slave and whitelist/blacklist issue, people can also reduce the gun cool effect if they wanted too
notice that i'm not saying that we need to ban guns in movies, but do movies need to open the fridge and have 10 guns there? should movies show "big ass"™ guns or a simple gun or revolver is enough? simple downgrade are more than enough in most movies... others may need more, fine... but a rifle is a better choice than a cal 50 sniper for killing someone from far away, unless the plot REALLY need the cal 50... copy&cats will flock to a "less dangerous" 8if that exists) gun
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 10 2022, @02:05PM
But there will be workarounds for the workarounds.
Then workarounds for those workarounds for the workarounds.
Until it is workarounds all the way down.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 2) by progo on Thursday June 09 2022, @07:53PM (1 child)
This sounds like Diebold voting machines. Bullshit tech sold to useless bureaucrats are incapable of making a business decision.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 10 2022, @02:07PM
Diebold wasn't smart enough to get cost plus contracting.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday June 09 2022, @07:59PM (3 children)
Introducing KinderUzi. A lighter version of the Uzi chambered for .22LR rounds so little patriots don't get knocked on their ass during automatic fire. Comes in bright kid friendly colors. Durable plastic guards so little fingers don't get pinched.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @08:48PM (1 child)
Perhaps a "Godgun" for churches and mosques. Parishioners could lay some fire and brimestone along with God‘s love onto the perp. Each gun would be blessed by a pope or whoever. Your sky-daddy would approve.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @10:31PM
These school shooters are atheists.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Thursday June 09 2022, @10:57PM
Don't forget the armor [wikimedia.org]
Appended to the end of comments you post. Max: 120 chars.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 09 2022, @08:08PM (20 children)
Drones can't fly through closed doors - locked or unlocked. Drones can't fly through windows. The FAA won't allow armed drones in the continental US. Drones are difficult and complicated - to license. Drones are somewhat less difficult and complicated to fly. Drones are not instantly available at any school shooting, rather they have to be retrieved from a SWAT armory, set up, and operated by that rare individual who is FAA certified, AND a police officer.
Far simpler, easier, and far more effective are simple robots, such as the Boston Dynamics robots. Drape it in armor, then arm it. First offensive weapon will be an either/or choice: a hydraulic battering capable of destroying any door found in a school building. OR, one of those tactical police shotguns capable of blowing the locks out of doors. The ram is probably the safer and more effective choice here.
Second offensive weapon is pretty much a no-brainer. A small, fast, light, but very deadly round that will drop the perp to the ground with a head shot. I vote for an AR platform weapon, chambered in 6.5 Grendel. One shot, and the perp is very dead - but you have backup shots just in case.
We most certainly DO NOT want to arm robots with bombs, like the cops in Dallas did. https://www.maxim.com/news/police-robot-dallas-shooting-2016-7/ [maxim.com] Instead, we want a robot that will selectively destroy one solitary target, without endangering innocent bystanders, who may be used for human shields.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @08:44PM (17 children)
This sounds really complicated and expensive. It would be simpler and cheaper if the mass shooting didn't start at all.
We don't need drones with tasers, robot dogs with rams, robots with AR-15s, or special weapons daleks. Instead of creating robots with guns, we need proper gun control to prevent mass shootings from being attempted. The solution isn't to arm everyone to the teeth, no matter how much you refuse to admit it.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 09 2022, @08:58PM (9 children)
Really complicated and expensive, maybe. Almost as complicated and expensive as the measures taken by elected officials in all branches, at all levels of government to provide for their own safety?
If you're paying tax dollars to protect your mayor's life, why won't you spend tax dollars to protect the lives of your loved ones? Do you love politicians more than you love you kids?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @09:17PM (5 children)
I do support using tax dollars to protect ordinary citizens, not just politicians. That's why I want those tax dollars to be spent on gun control, to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. We need fewer guns, not more of them.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 10 2022, @05:30PM (4 children)
No, what you really need, are fewer criminals. Allow honest citizens to defend themselves, and you'll have fewer criminals. The more robbers, rapists, etc that are screwed into their graves, the better.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @07:02PM (3 children)
Yeah...no. That's been working out really swell so far, hasn't it. Compare stats on gun violence in US compared to other countries if you don't believe.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 10 2022, @08:32PM (2 children)
Democrats haven't ALLOWED it to work out. And, most murders are in Democrat controlled cities. But, Democrats are afraid of their consituency, so they won't allow the black folk in the inner cities to be armed.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 11 2022, @03:26AM (1 child)
Most people are in Democrat controlled cities. In fact, there are lots of X that you can say "Most X are in Democrat controlled cities [xkcd.com]." It's a very simplistic and silly argument to make.
But when you break it down by per capita [cbsnews.com], it all seems to average out with lots of "red" in there. (For instance, are Birmingham, AL people afraid to arm their inner city black folks? Well, actually they probably are. Very afraid, in fact.)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday June 11 2022, @10:31AM
Look at your link again. Break them down as historically Dem or Rep controlled.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @10:16PM (1 child)
Maybe stop assassinating politicians then.
Ask Bobby Kennedy, the great hope of the nation after his brother was shot on the grassy knoll.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @07:30AM
You conspiracy nuts can't get anything right. His brother was shot in the car. He was shot from the grassy knoll.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @06:44AM
Maybe we could send in a stupid drone, like, a Runaway, with his Remington Model 700 with the defective trigger (in Win .270) and his vintage Colt .45 ACP, and his newly acquired Ruger 10-22, with the non-extendable mag. He at least could open the door. Send him in a lunch time, that seems when he is the most "concerned".
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 10 2022, @01:49AM (6 children)
What happens if the would-be shooter just ignores your proper gun control? There's this fantasy that regulation works. Except we have plenty of examples in the US where that's not the case. With respect to gun control, we even have examples that gun control makes the problem worse - such as would-be shooters seeking out gun-free zones, for example.
Further, while the US is more violent than a bunch of developed world countries, mass shootings aren't that common in the US. Don't we have real problems to worry about?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @04:03AM (2 children)
We could reinstate the 1994 federal assault weapons ban. Despite only being around for 10 years, it was somewhat effective at reducing gun violence, including mass shootings. There was a large increase in mass shootings after the ban expired, and many used AR-15s, which had been banned under the 1994 law.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 10 2022, @05:34PM
That is total bullshit. The government that instituted the 'assault weapon ban' determined that it made no difference. More recent studies funded by gun control zealots try to tell you different. They don't mind lying to you.
FACT: less than 2% of murders in this country are committed with rifles. That means, all rifles. It has never been broken down to determine what kind of rifles are used most frequently. Even if all murders with rifles were done with 'assault rifles', more people are beaten to death with fists and feet, than are killed with rifles.
'Assault rifles' are not the boogey man you are looking for.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @08:10PM
Please do get a t-shirt that says as much. Perhaps with a circular logo on the front? I've been practicing my remote debating skills for just such an occasion. My retorts move at 3000 fps.
How does it feel to be a brain-dead slave of the Jew?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @06:40AM
Coming for your guns, khallow. Better buddy up with Runaway in his double-wide bunker!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @06:51AM (1 child)
Only cowardly mass shooters like khallow would be looking for "gun-free zones". Most of these wack-jobs are doing suicide by cop, which khallow is too selfish to even consider, being a libertarian of the von Mises school, and all, so they seek out places with lots of guns. This "gun-free zones" make easy targets is Runaway level scaredy-ass coward stuff, anyway. What if you were in a gun-free place, like in jail, and a mass shooter came in? You would be defenceless! We need a Constitutional right to carry in jail! It is the only way to respect everyone's right to self defense and ground standing, and killing the punk thugs before they kill you!!
Philly sends its regards, khallow!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 10 2022, @05:37PM
You're an idiot. Almost all mass shooters seek out soft targets where people can't shoot back. That clown in Buffalo searched for an area with strict gun control, and lots of black targets - he was very specific about the kind of target he was looking for.
So-called gun free zones are murder magnets. Few shooters go to where the people can shoot back, like a police station.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @10:21PM
Yes, I know, with a 3D printed rocket launcher.
Ammosexual Runaway1956s are stupid and that's one of the US problems with guns.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 10 2022, @02:09PM
We simply need to develop bigger more powerful drones with missiles that can eliminate these nuisance locked doors you speak of.
The contractors will make more money. The spice must flow!
It will be good for everyone.
People with delusions of being Rambo will love it.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 09 2022, @10:25PM
What happened to impartiality?
""pseudo-scientific form" "patently ridiculous" "and agencies have given us little indication they can" etc.
I think it's sad that such a bias hit piece was published here, irrespective of if you agree or disagree with its content.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @01:11AM
Something you can remote steer and engage a shooter, even drop into the room while you're busy being a coward.
I'm sure it "won't be abused", but not much in the way of stopping determined murderous people. You can ban guns and they will go with bombs or fire. Its proven time and again in other countries that tried. I mean if your outrage hinges on spree killers using a particular type of weaon, maybe you'll feel better even if you don't solve the problem.
We're not going to fix our culture as we embraced all forms of delusion as a society. So that's out too.
Guess it's killer robots.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @01:39PM
Just askin'
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 10 2022, @01:47PM
You need both the means, and the will to use said means.