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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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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

What do you want the USA to do? Keep in mind shooting kids is illegal. Feel free to share your proposal.

Fwiw guns should have never been allowed to spread to this extent but undoing this is nigh impossible

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

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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

More Europeans die from lack of air conditioning than people in the US die from guns.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/europe-heat-wave...

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

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This 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…

>be prepared for them Hasn't that been a problem with active shooter drills? That future shooters also get drilled.

It's all pretty absurd, of course. Then we are calculating that the shooter will be outnumbered, which won't guarantee that there are no casualties on the defending side.

I'm saying that's what stems from accepting that there are going to be shooters with easy access to guns, such that we're not gonna do anything about that.

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

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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

"I think it's worth it. It's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment..." -Charlie Kirk

Re: 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 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…

Idk, I think the constitution is pretty awesome.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not something that you can just wave a magic wand. The steps to change the constitution is really really hard (deliberately).

The Supreme Court likes to play games with words and disregards precedent. Expand the court and shove "well-regulated militia" down their throats. Problem solved.

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

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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

You could ban guns completely and you’d still have to deal with active shooters. There are 500M guns in the USA. Those dont just disappear. Its idiotic not to harden targets. The best way to do that’s debatable, but schools should be hardened.

Having to think of schools as “soft targets” in a first world country is absolutely wild.
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