[Strategerist]

The government has plenty of far less visible ways of doing you in if it wanted to already.

[jboot]

Indeed. But none has all the advantages of the drone. A setup, a sting or a wetwork operation requires manpower, planning, money and time. It can also go spectacularly wrong. A drone operation can be run by a tiny team on a shoestring budget. Not much planning is needed: just continuously monitor the target and select an advantageous situation for the kill in real time as it arises.

Mind you, I don't think that even the current evil regime has plans to sling Hellfire missiles about the US countryside. Coverups would be required and there would be great potential for blowback. It is the next generation of drones and drone weaponry that will be abused, because it will be much more deniable. Micro drones that can inject targets with practically undetectable poisons are NOT science fiction. They are being developed right now, along with God knows what else.

[Nailbiter]

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