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Firm proposes Taser-armed drones to stop school shootings
AP ^ | June 4, 2022 | MATT O'BRIEN and MICHAEL BALSAMO

Posted on 06/04/2022 4:30:33 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: banglist; drones; uvalde
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To: GaltAdonis

Now if you replaced the taser with a laser...threat neutralized.


21 posted on 06/04/2022 5:08:23 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

Turn the schools into brick piles and make the kids school at home.
They did it during lockdown.


22 posted on 06/04/2022 5:15:49 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: Fai Mao

Drone tech today is pretty amazing. Not sure sure how a taser would work if the perp had a bullet proof vest on, but how about one that shoots bear spray? They shoot out a window or bust out the door, then send in a drone with a camera and hose down the perp in the face. The controller could see if the perp is blinded or confused by the bear spray and then one or two go officers go through the door and engage.

“Yes, but he’ll shoot at it.”

Ok, send in two, from different angles. Why not?


23 posted on 06/04/2022 5:18:18 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“Can’t fly through closed doors.”

Just blast a small hole in it...


24 posted on 06/04/2022 5:19:36 AM PDT by varyouga ( )
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To: McGruff

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

This is one of the biggest progressive misbeliefs, blaming crime rates in ‘communities of color’ on the level of policing in those communities. I know at least one progressive who believes that if we redeployed the police to white suburbs we would discover that there is just as much, if not more crime in those locations as there is in ‘communities of color’.


25 posted on 06/04/2022 5:20:15 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: McGruff

Paging Mark Rober. Mr. Rober, please pick up the white courtesy phone.


26 posted on 06/04/2022 5:21:08 AM PDT by AF_Blue (My decision-making skills closely resemble those of a squirrel when crossing a road)
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To: McGruff
8-E6389-CE-AB4-C-4-BFF-883-C-79-BFF9-C8-B0-CA
Our gov already has weaponized drones flying over our heads.
27 posted on 06/04/2022 5:25:53 AM PDT by The Louiswu (We couldn't 'afford' $4 billion for Trump's wall at the southern border?)
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To: Fai Mao

What can go wrong?


28 posted on 06/04/2022 5:34:49 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: DugwayDuke

“I know at least one progressive who believes that if we redeployed the police to white suburbs we would discover that there is just as much, if not more crime in those locations as there is in ‘communities of color’.”

For possession of certain drugs, that is probably true.

Every pot dealer will tell you their best and biggest clients are white kids from the suburbs and almost nobody gets caught.


29 posted on 06/04/2022 5:34:54 AM PDT by varyouga ( )
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To: The Louiswu

So, why haven’t we used that thing on George Soros yet?


30 posted on 06/04/2022 5:36:29 AM PDT by Chainmail (Harrassment, to be effective, must be continuous.)
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To: McGruff

Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range oughta do it.

CC


31 posted on 06/04/2022 5:37:16 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Dutch Boy

LOL 😅


32 posted on 06/04/2022 5:50:15 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: McGruff

If you have a gun and you’re shooting people... Could you not take the time to shoot the drone as well?


33 posted on 06/04/2022 5:51:38 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: stockpirate

It every school? Is this really something you want?


34 posted on 06/04/2022 5:54:51 AM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: jerod
"Could you not take the time to shoot the drone as well? "

Sure could. Which is why they send in a swarm of the things, not just one.

35 posted on 06/04/2022 5:55:28 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: McGruff
a group of well-respected experts in technology, policing and privacy.

When the AP refers to someone as "well-respected", my bullshite antennas go into overdrive.

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

"Communities of color" are over-policed? Is that why there's so much crime there? No. The police are assigned there because that's where a large percentage of the crimes are reported.

36 posted on 06/04/2022 5:58:06 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: McGruff

37 posted on 06/04/2022 6:06:25 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: HighSierra5

Yup. the ill-fated ED-209 enforcement droid.


38 posted on 06/04/2022 6:12:32 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: McGruff

as soon as it started tasering minority kids, it would be thrown out as racist.


39 posted on 06/04/2022 6:29:03 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: McGruff

“Knock, knock.”

“Who’s there?”

“Drone Taser.”

“Drone Taser who?”

“Drone Taser you.”

“Nope. Not letting you in Drone Taser.”


40 posted on 06/04/2022 6:59:29 AM PDT by moovova
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