This is the kind of thing which makes the 2nd Amendment impotent because the fullest spirit of its intent would have allowed civilian citizens to arm themselves with RPGs, anti-aircraft weaponry, and anything else to take down robotic agents of war operated by a hostile national government.
The drone pilots still have to get to and from work, buy groceries, fill their cars up etc.
Just sayin'...
We need to start arguing that. The continuous escalation of infringements not only of the second amendment, but of the fourth, will cause a backlash. They will use the backlash, which they caused, as justification for their escalation, and escalate more. They are simply in a mindset that they cannot stop. This isn't going to end well.
I truly believe that these experiments (Stanford Prison Experiment) and (Milgram Experiment) were seminal works in human psychology, and are directly applicable with what we are seeing played out today. And it is the best way to understand it. Our DHS agents will become a jack booted gestapo, because step by step that is the role they have been given. The experiments prove that if you put a good man into a room with gestapo weapons, gestapo uniforms, gestapo tactics, don't be surprised at what comes out of the room. It isn't going to be a good man.
Anti second amendment types often toss out the position that if you don't limit the second amendment, people will be able to own nuclear bombs. But we do have a clear constitutional need today to be able to counter tyrannical power at any level of technology the federal government can throw at us, not just rifles. How that happens is something no one is thinking of yet. It could be that the national guard becomes a state guard, as checks and balances against the power of the federal goverment, or that the unorganized militia should start forming again. Clearly an individual does not have the resources to fight this if used by a tyrannical government against us.
One problem with your line of thinking, James: these are not autonomous flight platforms. They require a joystick jockey to keep them going. All it takes is some good intel on where in the wilderness the flight radio shack is located, some ingenuity, a pack of pissed off patriots, and you can take over those drones for your own purposes or at least make the control of those devices quite perilous for those who wish to do the job.
“allowed civilian citizens to arm themselves with RPGs, anti-aircraft weaponry,....”
That’s what I’ve been saying all along.
Check tagline. The right to bare arms is meant to protect
our nation from enemies foreign or DOMESTIC.