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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

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Post by hungryhobbit »

The real question here isn't "why are we sacrificing the education of the next generation to buy tools that make us feel safe but (logically, statistically) will only prevent one in a million child deaths?" ... the answer to that is a Simpsons meme ("won't someone think of the children?").

The real question is ... who is stoking the irrational fear in the first place, and how do they benefit by doing so?

Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters

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Post by jrflowers »

Havoc wrote: post #4

Genuinely 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

> Next stop - magic incantations to bestow bulletproof status on schoolkids

They already sell Kevlar backpacks

Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters

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Post by gmueckl »

Havoc wrote: post #4

Genuinely 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

"Thoughts and prayers". It's always "thoughts and prayers" and invoking an inaginary "good guy with a gun". Can it get much more magical/mystical/performative than that?

Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters

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Post by refulgentis »

Havoc wrote: post #4

Genuinely 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

We have a corrupt Supreme Court that transmutated the Constitution’s “well-organized militia” into “any individual”, combined with that and the Paranoid Style (Richard Hofstadter) of our politics, there’s absolutely 0 that can happen.

Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters

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Post by diego_moita »

> Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters

Schools in the U.S.; this is what the U.S. are getting into.

Meanwhile, the majority of the civilized world solves this with gun control. Americans can't do gun control just because of fetishism for their obsolete Constitution.

Try to explain to Americans that their Constitution was written before the Industrial Revolution and cheap ubiquitous guns, during a war, when the overwhelming majority of the population was rural. Try to explain that when Americans try to do nation building (Japan, Iraq, Afghanistan) they choose political frameworks completely different from the American Constitution.

They won't accept it. They venerate their Constitution just as blindly as the Bible, another obsolete document.

Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters

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Post by valleyer »

wildzzz wrote: post #5
cyanydeez wrote: post #2

to 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.

The article mentions that, in Georgia, funding for these came from the state budget and even quotes a state legislator on the committee on the education appropriations committee.

It also mentions that the effort is "spearheaded" (whatever that means) by the state legislature in Florida.

Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters

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Post by cyanydeez »

wildzzz wrote: post #5
cyanydeez wrote: post #2

to 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.

yeah, no, i get the grift.

Re: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters

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Post by Joker_vD »

jrflowers wrote: post #12
Havoc wrote: post #4

Genuinely 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

> Next stop - magic incantations to bestow bulletproof status on schoolkids They already sell Kevlar backpacks

A top seller in Libya, Somali, Iraq, and that one particular first-world country which our lawyers from that country advise us to refrain from naming! Buy one today!
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