Anything but gun regulation
Nation of psychopaths. Just control guns FFS.
Fucking LOL.
Let's make school shootings even more confusing by making sure both victims and shooter(s) are all grouped together on the ground screaming about the waeaponized capsacin in their eyes.
Cops in Texas are going to have to explain why they mowed down multiple innocents simply because they couldn't figure out who the shooter was in a sea of kids screaming about getting pepper sprayed after almost getting shot.
This will not end well. It will end with more dead kids not less.
Are they bulletproof?
I'm sure this won't be abused at allllll.
It's not going to get used at all. They'll sit in their pods, collecting dust and by the time they get activated, if ever, the batteries will be dead, the control software will have bad update or version mismatch, or the nozzles will be clogged.
I thought this was the onion
I got these for the office to stop people from slacking off. Works like a charm. They’ll get you good if you spend too long at the water cooler.
I'll send you my script to have them monitor bathroom usage. I've perfected lobing the pepper balls over the bathroom partitions.
Oh that would be nice. I currently use motion activated lights in the bathroom set to turn off after 30 seconds. Cell reception is terrible in there too.
The US is such a backwards place.
Guy 1: "Uhhh, too many people are shooting up schools with guns. What can we do about that?"
Guy 2: "I know a guy who knows a guy who can make a drone that shoots pepperballs. We can also install bulletproof doors that lock from the inside and get some armed guards to patrol the kindergarden."
Guy 3: "What if we enact some reasonable gun laws?"
Guy 1 and 2: "Ba-ha-ha-ha. Fuck off, commie. Jesus gave all'ya'all these guns. Why do you hate Jesus?"
This well be used on students. Mark my words.
Fight between two students? Better pepper spray everyone on the corredor and send the asmatic kid to the hospital
I think it's a good step. With all the guns going around and since Americans are only capable of shooting kids en masse instead of shooting their government up.
I can't think of anything more American than weapon-carrying drones being deployed to combat armed attackers in schools.
They need a points system.
And Flock cameras so people can bet.
Face shields cost only a few bucks. I don't think this achieves anything.
Pepper spray, especially fog-applied, is going to get around that.
they'll just ban private ownership of gas masks, same as they did with body armor in nys.
Could it get around safety goggles as well?
Like the kind you wear in a lab?
No, those are purpose-built to keep airborne contaminants out.
That’s the most American “solution” to the most American of problems.
Everything but regulate guns
You know how conservatives yell about protecting the children? HEY MOTHERFUCKERS, KIDS NEED A SAFE ENVIRONMENT TO LEARN AND JUST BE WITHOUT GODDAMN ARMED DRONES FLYING AROUND THE HALLS OF THEIR SCHOOLS. THAT SHIT IS PERVERSE AND WEIRD. WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING? IS NOTHING SACRED? LEAVE THE FUCKIN CHILDREN ALONE.
So they just need to wear non-vented goggles and a filtered mask. Now they have easy targets who are blinded by the pepper spray to which they are immune.
Just wait until the school nerd learns to hack them and sends them after the school bully quarterback.
That kid is getting scouted by the US military by end of day.
And those drones will be controlled by ChatGPT/Grok.
Uh, FUCK THAT? Maybe?
The drones can remain airborne for about eight minutes on a single battery charge
I'm not at all defending this asinine "solution" to school shootings, however eight minutes could be a significant amount of lives saved.
Anything but regulate guns, making mental health ressources more accessible or punish bullying.
This normalizes policing by machines, controlled by faceless people who will be shielded against consequences just like cops are shielded now. Drones don't have a face, a name or an personell number. If something happens (and it will), you can't even point your finger on the guilty party anymore. It also shields those controllers from any social backlash they would get if they would hurt someone in person.
Like most American "solutions" it's a very good idea from a technical point of view but a terrible societal choice
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