Firm proposes Taser-armed drones to stop school shootings

AP ^ | June 4, 2022 | MATT O'BRIEN and MICHAEL BALSAMO

[McGruff]

Taser developer Axon said this week it is working to build drones armed with the electric stunning weapons that could fly in schools and “help prevent the next Uvalde, Sandy Hook, or Columbine.” But its own technology advisers quickly panned the idea as a dangerous fantasy.

The publicly traded company, which sells Tasers and police body cameras, floated the idea of a new police drone product last year to its artificial intelligence ethics board, a group of well-respected experts in technology, policing and privacy.

Some of them expressed reservations about weaponizing drones in over-policed communities of color.

[McGruff]

[Erik Latranyi]

Some of them expressed reservations about weaponizing drones in over-policed communities of color.

This is completely racist. In other words, go ahead and use them in white communities, but leave black communities alone.

[Fai Mao]

Not sure about this

[Leep]

I Don’t remember the last mass shooting at any federal facilities?

[stockpirate]

How about armed guards with M-4’s

[billorites]

What could possibly go wrong?

[dljordan]

Oh please.

[albie]

Sounds like a good thing for libs to latch on to in order to rationalize taking guns.

[BudgieRamone]

Dude at the navy yard in Virginia a few years back.

[Tupelo]

“Some of them expressed reservations about weaponizing drones in over-policed communities of color.”

Well, let's use a little hillbilly logic to figger this out.

Since the BLM & Antifa ‘protests and most major cities have proven, Black Lives Don't Mean Squat, all these preventive measures should only be deployed in normal neighborhood.

[Qwapisking]

Hmmm...a DUNE style facial recognition drone that, in the words of the inimitable
Harry Callahan, “will blow your head clean off”? what’s NOT to like!

[Chickensoup]

Armed robots is how our government wants to disarm and kill us.

[Leep]

Brain fart on my part.
I forgot the shootings on military bases..by people who just happened to be Muslim.

[HighSierra5]

Robocop

[cranked]

Drones have to be operated (at least the ones I am aware of) so what happens with lunch breaks, bathroom breaks, etc.? /s

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Can’t fly through closed doors.

[McGruff]

Why stop with tasers.

[GaltAdonis]

Nah.
What we need are sharks with frickin' laser beams.

[Dutch Boy]