I see no possibility of this going wrong. /s

Once the drones are taken over by child-shooter hackers, ICBM launches against random schools will be used as a deterrent. Failing that all schools will be closed and the problem with "school shootings" will finally be solved! /s

Wait until the bullied nerd learns to hack that system and sends the armed drones to exterminate the jocks.

I'm trying to imagine something like this getting installed in my old school in the UK, and it's so bizarre and totally removed from my reality growing up that I can't even picture it.

The whole concept of a robot armed with a lethal weapon just sitting there in my classroom each and every day, waiting for someone in a remote control centre to decide that someone in the room should be killed? I think that would traumatize me a little even if there never was an attack.

I've been predicting that terrorist (aka conservatives in the US) will start using them from long range soon. I'm surprised that this didn't start happening sooner but I guess people of that disposition aren't very clever so it's taken a whole lot longer to catch on.

Then those coward pigs can finally do something while they're hiding. And probably make more victims

Yep, these definitely won't get hacked

Often we see people being demonised and dehumanized for political purposes. Americans basically dehumanize themselves.

As a parent I can't think of anything much more traumatic than losing a child to a gun massacre. It makes me furious. Watching Americans passively do nothing about this for decades has gone from infuriating to blame. I can't relate to them anymore.

I didn't make them sub-human by questioning their race or religion or politics. They made themselves sub-human by ignoring the most basic moral and ethical requirements of human society and family. Watching them kill each other won't bring me joy but it doesn't outrage me as much as watching people in war torn countries being massacred in conflicts over which they had no control.

This was a choice from a weak broken society.

Ah, sniper drones. Like the ones Israel has been using to shoot children in the head.

Tried and tested on Palestinian children, now ready for the open market.

I can't imagine that anything will go wrong. /s

ED-209: CITIZEN, DROP THE WEAPON. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY.

Random Kid: B...b... But I don't even have a weapon!

ED-209: YOU NOW HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY. 9. 8. 7...

anything but the actual, common sense, solution

That one kid with a flipper zero: hold my juice box

Anything besides sensible gun control.

repeal the 2nd amendment

Armed with pepper balls

"Once airborne, they offer two-way communication through an embedded speakerphone. They also can break glass, make loud noises, fire nonlethal pepper-spray pellets or take other action within a minute as a first response to an incident. "

So instead of dealing with the actual problem... they're going to add to the problem. Wow. What a fucking liberty.

EDIT: I clearly didn't read the article. Not going to rewrite or delete what I said. Keeping my integrity. Thanks 👌

A drone that size carrying only a go-pro has a battery life of only a few minutes. With all the shit this company glued to it I'm sure the shooter just has to close a door and count to 100 and the thing will fall out of the air.

Shit. They still haven't thought of the obvious solution.

So do they just circle over the school until the shooter has killed everyone and leaves the building?

This is called over-engineering the solution

Skynet for brown people

Fortunately they are currently only equipped with non lethal capabilities. So it's going to be fun to watch the consequences of someone hacking into them and people to realize how much of a bad idea this was