Common sense isn’t so common. Especially when there’s money to be made by selling guns…and drones, apparently
Common sense isn’t so common. Especially when there’s money to be made by selling guns…and drones, apparently
And what happens when they find the shooter???? Does the drone phone a friend? Or maybe send live video of the faces of terrified children right before the gunman shoots down the drone and eliminates the children in their presence before they move on to the next target while LE cowers outside?
That will be redacted...
No one makes money if guns get proper controls. Loathsome, indeed. Deep sigh.
Jess, Let's be honest. We are beyond gun safety laws. America is armed to the teeth and unfortunately some of those weapons are in the wrong hands. In the future, we might enact legislation for common sense laws but for now it's proactive security and reactive EMS response. Heartbreaking
100% correct. All this talk of more gun laws is pointless. Go to a local gun show and have a look around.
If...Donkey invokes the insurrection act to remain in power, he will call on those 2A fanatics to help "secure the nation". Then he will disarm them. My conspiracy moment postulating.
Yep- it's what dictators do. Armed populations in the final phase of their takeover- when their army of armed thugs is no longer needed- is a no-no.
Are you and I the only ones who see.this happening right now?
I've talked with a very few others who can see it besides us- but not many.
All veterans as well BTW.
Cuz we've seen this in other countries and we also know what's its like to used.
I think that's it. We have seen things in other nations that most have not. Reality vs. the conjecture posting that goes on all over BlueSky. My deployments in Central America and the ME showed me that they all use the same formula. Bottom line for me- have guns- not giving them up especially now.
I read the 2A and included the comma... I still do not own an assault weapon. I have a handgun (1911 .45 acp) and a couple of other guns (shotgun and 30-06), all hand-me-downs. For the 1st time in my life, I'm contemplating the purchase of an AR style weapon...
Just ask Ernst Röhm.
Yep, was just thinking about that. Maga red hats/brownshirts may be hit with their own Night of the Long Knives someday.
So are drones now bulletproof? Who knew. 🤷♀️
Ummm just follow the sound of the gunshots to locate the shooter? Good grief the idiocy is unreal.
That's actually harder than it sounds (no pun intended) firefights in buildings get confusing quickly due to the echoing off of walls. It's why teams clear room by room.
Ok so fumbling around with a drone verses cops running in to disable the shooter is better??? I doubt it.
Not what I said, but I think you know that. As someone who *has* cleared buildings, it's not as easy as running to the sound of gunfire. As much as movies like to show the hero running into gunfire, that's not how it works. Having said that, 70 minutes standing around is completely unacceptable.
Ok I’m sorry I didn’t mean to come off standoffish but Uvalde is exactly what I was picturing here, another excuse to stand outside and do nothing. I still can’t believe heads haven’t rolled over that disastrous response 😔
I can. Those were primarily Hispanic kids.
🙁 jaysus
Indeed. Think about this: how fast is Texas having hearings about the floods? They haven't recovered all the bodies yet. But there were rich white kids involved, including the family member of Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt.
Unfortunately, you’re right. Texas has turned into such a disappointment. I used to love to visit. Now, you couldn’t pay me to go there.
Back to school in Republican America. Let's honor our brave children standing on the front line for the second amendment. 😒😡
Can’t we just send them to school in body armor?
I spy with my little eye... Dammit. That's creepy.
Republicans don’t give a shit about children
Anything but banning weapons of war.
Oh yeah, giving the shooter additional targets to haphazardly shoot at in the presence of children sounds like a great idea.
Genocidal maniacs and pedophiles make the rules in amerikkka
Or... you know what if we had common sense gun laws instead? No, let's waste billions of dollars on building drones that may accidentally target students or teachers during an active shooting event.
Ironically school shooters can use that bullshit too. There’s no serious regulation on modifying civilian drones or the AI to run them. And it’s pretty easy to mount a firearm or improvised explosive on a drone. As every Ukrainian high school kid learned very quickly.
the entire rest of the world continues to shake its head sadly at the idiocy of the US on this sad, sad issue. Trying to put little bandaids on a severed head.
Jeez. A good drone with a gun now?
Great idea, but I’m afraid that the Congress will say no we can’t have that that helps the taxpayers
So cops can watch children being massacred in real time, from the safety of the police department's super high tech mobile command center.
It’s the same as prescribing medications which don’t cure but merely mask symptoms. Why fix a problem when you can create a new long-term revenue stream?
Technology will never solve stupid.
But the important thing: we now have two(!) industries profiting from childrens' deaths from preventable gun violence—arms manufacturers/dealers _AND_ drone makers.
All this because Congress is owned by the NRA and gun manufacturers.
I live by this school, it’s Regis Jesuit High School, I believe it’s a private Catholic school… which kinda makes sense. I also agree that this falls under the category of ‘harbinger of doom’ and is NOT a replacement for common sense gun reform.
These same drones can video and record the students
Right. Because it's not like those can't also get shot down by an active shooter.
That is so stupid. JFC.
When every problem is made to look like a nail…
Unless the drones will kamikaze, the shooters I don't know how they can help.
Billionaire pedophiles don’t want our kids to learn in a safe environment. They don’t want kids to learn At All. The whole situation is created by these pedophiles controlling our laws. Outlaw Billionaires and things will change overnight. Start with citizens United. tax billionaires into oblivion
protect us from the GOP!!
Why are we that stupid?
If only this drone technology could protect Americans from MAGA and the orange criminal and street gang leader on the hill.
The United States of America is not a real place.
Pigs are so scared of doing their jobs they need robots to do it. Because they will not. We’ve seen that. They cash checks. That’s it. Protect and serve isn’t in their job descriptions.
What a fucking waste. My children have been in lockdown on multiple occasions due to active shooters either in their area or hiding in the schools. These are elementary schools and middle schools. These schools did not call to inform us nothing. I live in Georgia by the way. There’s no humanity left
It’s another grift. Someone’s going to make a lot of money on this dystopian toy.
Also consider the possibility of passive surveillance and data gathering of the students. Graft plus a bonus?
Oh, god. You’re absolutely on point.
There’s no drone that can save kids when they are in a school being shot. None. Indeed been in there twice. Gun to my face as a teacher. It took BRAVE PEOPLE TO ATTACK AND NEUTRALIZE the gunmen to save us.
Wish they'd had them in Uvalde when police feared going in even though they had armor and shields.
I’m sure these will in reality work flawlessly and not be a giant waste of money whatsoever.
I'm old enough to remember when firefighters ran into burning buildings, police ran into emergencies, we didn't wait for search and rescue, didn't wait to help. We didn't stage outside with our chickenshit thumbs up our asses waiting for drone teams or tanks to hide behind.
And a time when judges ruled using laws and the constitution. Now everything is a show, political, and corrupt
Also true 🤬🤬 Sick of it!!
American simply must start electing adults. We need to gut law enforcement and start from scratch. We can start with our lawless federal "law enforcement".
Are the drones equipped to kill the suspect?
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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I'm waiting for them to propose using an ED-209 to protect the innocent....
5,4,3,2💥
I guess we would rather watch them happen than keep them from happening. We suck!
Or instead of spending more taxpayer money on drones, we could regulate guns like the rest of the developed world.
Make it make sense
Exactly. A more efficient and safer solution would be to get rid of the problem - guns.
"Anything to protect blue lives."she typed contemptuously.
very effective at surveilling the humans for no good reason, and also completely stupid as designed, since a shooter would just shoot it, dumbasses
Aaaaargh! No, no, no, no, and no. As an elementary school secretary, what we need is strict gun laws!!! And until then, we should not have to let anyone in our bldgs. We can’t keep the public happy at the expense of our children. I’m way over it.
Remember this from terminator 3?
Are they giving incentives to teachers to become drone operators for $20/day?
Geez!
Because cops are cowards behind their badges.
Is this so that we can actually watch the horror of the actual shooting of children in real time?
It probably is to give the ability to watch considering that most of the Republicans in Congress are sadists.
Most schools have security cameras in the hallways/gym/cafeteria and across the grounds. If they don’t they need to get them. That’s a better solution than a stupid flying target.
Who flies the drones and how do they keep them from running into people? This is a ridiculous bandaid on top of a bandaid etc. and ignores the obvious solution: regulate guns!! Other countries do it and have excellent results.
"Don't be afraid children! We're recording the shooter rampage through your school on a drone! Problem solved!"
Wait until the drones are doing the murder… then things will get really spicy. What you thought was normal is dying on the vine. Plenty of videos from Ukraine if you’re interested to see what’s coming…
What the fuckety-fuck is THIS new fuckery????
Excellent take on this. (One of many). You are too smart to lose elections. Even in Missouri.
No. Just No. smdh.
Or, I don’t know, WE COULD TRY BETTER GUN CONTROL?!?
This seems like such a stupid idea. A small amount of enforced gun laws would fix so much
Police. State.
Anything but doing the obvious 😕
Yes, you could get gun control, like Canada and the rest of the civilized world.
You've heard of thinking outside the box. This is republicans version only it's "thinking of anything but gun reform."
So, more Uvalde’s if I understand the concept. Those idiots stood outside a classroom as children were gunned down by the shooter INSIDE the classroom. My hope is that none of those men are able to sleep and will need lifelong therapy. Children died!!!!
More spyware.
Like clay pigeons?
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We all know to end gun violence we need to focus on everything except guns, right?
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America is literally willing to do anything and everything except control and get rid of such easy access to and ownership of firearms. Absolutely wild stuff.
What ingenuity! What a fabulous invention! Where do I sign up? SERIOUSLY?????
Don't want "drones" saving our children from school shooters. I want those high capacity guns gone. If you need that advantage to hunt, your a terrible shot. Responsible gun owners should have training every year, insurance for you and the gun, and prove that any firearms are secured properly.
*you're* Ugh!
Maybe just maybe this was voice recorded? 🤔
Thanks for the save, but I didn't proofread before replying! Would probably have been NSFW if I'd used the voice recording!
There's not a need for annual training. Shooting a gun and practicing firearm safety is a 15 minute course for people with IQs above room temp. One time. It isn't complicated. How a person secures their weapons is up to them. Not Uncle Sugar. Insurers would never write those policies.
I hear you on the training - we compromise on that. When insurance companies have to make big payouts after our now weekly mass shootings, maybe things change. Thinking of the tobacco companies here.
Schools have insurance for mass shootings already. It's the largest percentage of outside the classroom spending since the early nineties.
I had no idea. Teachers buy school supplies out of their own pocket, so schools can pay premiums? That stinks!
My master's thesis was to uncover outside the class spending increases between a certain period of time. 1990-2005. Most went hiring cops and insurance premiums. But not making schools more safe. Or increasing teacher pay.
I'm so glad you're here. Thanks for the peek into this world. Mine was helping young musicians get scholarships for lessons and summer camps. Never enough $$ to go around. Or so I thought!
Ah, yes... A mass shooter's number one fear; being on camera while they murder everyone.
Why stop making and selling guns when you can also make and sell drones? Billionaires create hell on earth to sell you Gatorade.
Prevention would be great. I’d rather have fewer dead children from school shootings #gunreform.
Which when the shooter hears or sees it will set them off. Morons.
And a spray of bullets from an automatic weapon will do what to a drone? 🧐
Fucking ridiculous 😒
JFC!!!
Disgusting and embarrassing. Let’s enrich shitty private corporations offering false safety measures when we could just protect children.
And what tech are these drones equipped with? Are they gathering up cell phone signals and data? Taking surveillance photos? This is bullshit. These techbros are working overtime trying to force mass surveillance on all us by any means necessary.
Right. This and AI are incredibly problematic. We will always be under suveilance.
Stupid thing would be more useful if you could ram it into the shooter's crotch or face at full speed.
I don't care at all about data gathering or locations- does f**k all while kids are being killed. 🤬
It starts with them keeping tabs on us and then it progresses to them shooting us with them, without due process.
I care, and I make this statement knowing it will be ineffective. It's about another company pushing products on vulnerable people. We know what needs to be done. People are unwilling to do it, and that includes parents that love unfettered access to guns, more than their children.
Gives big brother vibes. Personally I don’t want to know how many times someone scratches their nose a day.
And, we could have gun legislation. We could have safer schools, but nooo… we will spend money on adult toys 🤷♀️
Typical. Don't abolish the root cause of the student killings-guns; get a high tech solution that may or may not lower a potential death toll because it's another way for some billionaire to make money off of the U.S.'s inability and refusal to regulate guns.
According to US Law, willful negligence that causes death is manslaughter? I'm no legal expert. What is PURPOSEFULL NEGLIGENCE considered? Murder? Pro Life? wut?
Better back up those drones with some tanks, water cannons and hundreds of newly indoctrinated ICE gestapo.
Please explain how schools whose students can't afford lunch are going to fund drone police officers in classrooms?
Yes! Please
We could have. However, Republicans and some fake Democrats approve of the the Chaos. More weapons of destruction. Instead of defunding corrupt cops. The Republicans given an additional 200 Billion to Kidnap, Destroy and Kill Innocent People
How's that supposed to help? You've got a fat cop sitting in one spot and not chasing the shooter. THEY ALREADY HAVE CAMERAS IN ALL THE HALLWAYS. Plus a book or a backpack can take the drone down. The hallways are not that big.
It will literally be shot down in 2 seconds
Assanine😱
No. Just fcking no.
P A T H E T I C
But where are all the manly men with their AR15’s? They’re all little scared bitches.
Drones are definitely the answer 😳
Because our armored up overweight, masked, fire-powered tough folks are afraid to go into a school where children were being murdered.
They only go into schools to terrorize and kidnap brown children
Maybe the establishment of a fascist dictatorship will be the only thing that eventually leads to US gun control: though presumably only for suspected dissidents.
It’s a pat on the back (and great for business $$). Now, pretending to do something may lead to believing one’s saving kids but is needlessly endangering everyone instead. They continue trying different band aids instead of stopping it from the source. This won’t stop a shooter soon enough anyway.
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I’m glad that it’s impossible for a gunman to shoot down a drone. Otherwise this would be a terrible idea.
couldn't the shooter just...I dont know....SHOOT THE DAMN DRONES DOWN? ANYTHING but gun control jesusss.
Waiting on shooters sending in their own drones first to take out the school drones 😐😕 And this is just more companies making money off of these tragedies!
Seems like too little, much too late
Yep. If a person has to set up and fly the drones, after the school shooting starts, it’s too late. Look at the research, most shootings are over before police arrive on the scene.
Because cameras on kids is not creepy at all 😳 The don’t tread on me/gun crowd is ok with having their children filmed at school… what could possibly go wrong?
Now silencers for guns are taxed less? Do hunters need silencers?
Yeah
In a related story, some schools with mouse infestations will now be releasing boa constrictors to patrol the halls...
Can we have a set for the White House, please? And maybe Mar a Lago too?
Because even as most of the rest of the Bill of Rights are pretty much optional, and the 14th amendment apparently no longer guarantees birthright citizenship, the second amendment is still sacred. Everything is an emergency to this administration but mass murder of children, not as much.
Yeah, best video quality, hope the sound will be good, too.
So money intended for education can go into corporate profits for drones.
Exactly! Make the rich richer and the poor dead.
That would be a great T-shirt!
But ... MAGA has defunded DOE, so States will have to consider $$$$ these
Try NO GUNS.
What a nonsense - a shooter with semi automated rifle will take the drone out in less than a second
Regis-Jesuit is a Catholic school. I wonder if they'll find child rapists.
Seems to me they focus way too much on being reactive and not proactive
Check out how Baltimore decreased crime. Hint: social services, not tech. “The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year” popular.info/p/the-secret...
Drones will not prevent kids being murdered. Instead, it will likely make some local asshole who supplies overpriced drones rich (likely a Republican).
It's all about government contracts padding their pockets.
Because this is what the arms manufacturers want. And because our politicians are bought
💙💙💙 no it’s just it in fucking right
Never mind the fact that the shooter could just shoot the drone and/or the operator
My very first thought as well.
What an ignorant comment.
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Us: can we have basic regulations on firearms so more kids aren’t murdered, please? GOP: what about using AI to stop shootings? Could that be a thing? We’ve heard a lot about AI, let’s puts billions into that.
I grew up in a time that saw the last of freedom in America . I’m sorry it’s come down to this but it all changed when Reagan came to power and things just got worse. Dems were forced to dig out of every deficit and largely not be thanked since.
generalstrikeus.com
They really would do absolutely anything OTHER than the simple obvious thing wouldn't they?
Typical… dont want to get rid of guns so they bring in more… sickening
ANYTHING except gun regulation wtf 😭
You know the next step will be to arm them. Where is the bottom of this hole??? #resist #FDT #enough
Seems more cost effective to strengthen gun laws, huh?
Always reactive, never proactive.
Idiocy.
Mental health care in schools, not murder drones.
Maybe Hawley can backpedal his votes on gun control while he's backpedaling his votes on Medicaid and Medicare. 🙄 Josh is a world-class backpedaler.
So are they shot-proof? Because the shooter could just 🔫💥🤦🏻♀️.
JFC
And yet none of the drone companies in the US are showing an uptick in stock price. Yet. I keep watching them because the minute they start to go up is when the police state goes off the rails to total dystopia.
Yet another example of truly out of touch tech bros trying to solve a problem in the dumbest way possible! Cue monorail musical from the Simpsons.
They… they know an active shooter could just… shoot the drone… …right?
"Safety". 🙄
Then it hits a kid in the head doing it's patrol 😲
Orrrrr…. Get this…. Pass sensible gun legislation?
Well at least somebody gets rich off the murders of schoolchildren. That’s the important thing.
How many kids will the mass shooter kill before the drones can get to them?
So now, our kids’ kids are now doing active shooter drill just like their parents did. This intergenerational crap is inexcusable
Oh ffs
Swell. My grands and I are in CO
This is stupid
Oh, my!!
So active shooters are so scary that we send in drones instead of human police? But teachers and kids just have to deal with it? **sigh**
I suppose these drones will be equipped with technology to see what's going on behind closed doors, around hallways and of course, can't be shot down.
What about privacy?! This is not a solution, especially in a dictatorship. Now we're normalizing drones in our schools.
Admit it. If this were some kid's science fair project you'd think it was cute
What are the odds a sling shot could take out that drone in a heartbeat? Drones might have some value in extremely dark situations, but at school all the lights are on. No element of surprise.
Isn’t this a privacy issue?
Not enough money for math, but we got murder drones on standby
THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE BEING HUNTED BY DRONES.
Well they have tried security guards, and metal detectors. Now comes drones, and STILL we have school shootings. It's the guns, stupid!!
Good God America, when are you going to wake up. Guns = death. Why are you all so afraid of one and other that you feel the need to be armed. Protect your kids by taking away the guns. They should be able to go to school without wondering if they will live through the day.
Ok, so now when we do active shooter drills in schools, we have to desensitize children to the added creepy sound of drones. I swear these fuckers want to normalize this stuff.
Body armor would be cheaper 🤬
Ridiculous!
“Should we maybe consider some gun law reforms?” “What? No! Let’s fill the schools with tiny floating robots instead, that makes way more sense.”
pretty sure locating the source quickly is not the problem
No, no, no!
...and who will be ponying up the money to pay for this? Ridiculous.
So again. Don't stop the "Active Shooter" from getting a weapon of war with sensible & reasonable gun control laws. Instead, let catch him sooner after he kills more children.
because boys won't give up their toys...and the more toys the better.
How to the drones bypass closed doors , covered windows, or a whole of ways they can be impeded?
Stop being logical now, that'll throw them off
What could possibly go wrong? Kids on camera, kids being hit by drones, kids knocking down drones, ….
On a positive note, the argument that gun ownership amongst the citizenry is necessary to stem government tyranny has softened over the last several months...
I tell myself, be a better person, we need to reach out to the people that may listen, but fuck it's exhausting
Good lord, I would laugh but what a desperately sad state of affairs it is in the USA. Loving guns more than the children and failing to keep them safe even at school. A total disaster and failure on every level.
People clearly won’t go in and save kids. Maybe robots will be braver
Now let's get another private contractor, paid by taxpayers, to provide a plan for when the kids are hit by the drones and lose an eye.
Just ban guns.
Yeah but the cool factor...
occam's razor is lost on the cult
Where should schools spend their money? Drones cost a lot. Gun laws cost nothing.