Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
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Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
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Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
#2to waste money instead of education or gun control. the miracle of propaganda
Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
#3Instead of spending money on educating people and making society better, lets spend our money on worthless highly overpriced gimmicks that achieve nothing. /s
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#4Genuinely impressed the lengths they’ll go to in the US order to avoid doing something about guns.
Next stop - magic incantations to bestow bulletproof status on schoolkids
Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
#5to waste money instead of education or gun control. the miracle of propaganda
These are being bought at the county/district level or even the individual schools. Gun control is legislated at the state or federal level. The people making the decision to buy these have effectively zero control over gun laws.
Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
#6ETA until a drone pepper sprays an innocent student or teacher?
Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
#7ETA until a drone pepper sprays an innocent student or teacher?
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Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
#8This is a incredibly US specific headline.
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#9Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon 693 points by antongribok 9 months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45684934
Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
#10This idiotic idea that must have come from a Gemini chat session will backfire in a real incident. Of course the perpetrator will know about the drones and be prepared for them, e.g. with a face mask. Conveniently for them, the pepper spray will confuse and incapacitate their targets, leading to more casualties.
If you're going to accept not being able to take guns away from the perpetrators, the only thing that will "work" is their targets being likewise armed, as well as trained in firearm combat in close quarters and outside, as well as psychologically trained to handle the real situation and not freeze, tremble or hesitate.
No passive gimmicks will stop an armed perpetrator, unless he doesn't know about their existence and is not prepared for their deployment, which is a foolish assumption to rely on.