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Armed drones to be deployed at schools to stop mass shooters (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You said

To me, these aren’t a bad idea.

and yet you also said

The devices—operated remotely by a team in Texas

in the very same post.

I wouldn't want some bored trigger happy gun nutjob from Texas playing shoot the bad guys with pepper spray on a games console where my kids and their multi ethnic friends are the NPCs.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 3 days ago

That's a fair assessment. I'm guessing it's that way because that's where the company that operates this is. Which, now that I think about it, probably is a poor way to manage the whole program.

So I'll post-edit to say: "with local pilot and oversight"