Posted on 07/08/2018 4:25:32 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
But that's the DC swamp cynic in me speaking.
Meanwhile, all the components to make your own “drone” are out on the open market.
Meanwhile, all the components to make your own drone are out on the open market.
Along with the open source designs, 3D Print models, and software.
Drones come in handy more than most people realize.
The meteor would create a large chasm.
So huge it might be called a sar...chasm.
...but then the government could spend all our money on covering it with a giant tarp.
Yes. If recreational drones were made illegal, it would be easy to break the law.
It seems to me that recreational drone users love their hobby, and the rest of us find it annoying or worse. We don't like the noise, and we don't like having our privacy invaded with flying cameras.
Also, we vastly outnumber the drone users.
So, I suspect that a political movement to ban recreational drone use might succeed right now. It would certainly succeed after the first use -- anywhere in the world -- of hundreds of drones programmed to kill humans.
Yet how long will it be before the common personal comm system includes a couple bee sized drones that take turns recharging themselves?
Oh...
I see now...
You Funnyman you!
There is the potential to be very, very nasty. So far the bad guys have not put all of the pieces together yet. So far the greatest use is to move contraband into the prisons.
And leave government use of hundreds of drones programmed to kill undefended humans unchallengeable by said humans?
Cat toys of tomorrow.
There is also no Constitutional power granted to the Federal Government to forbid them.
The Constitution was not a limit on an individual's rights. It was a limit on Government power.
That has been going on for years, and the number of people killed is in the thousands, not counting the people who were the actual targets. The non-combatant people on the receiving end of our drone strikes would like them to be illegal, but that hasn't happened.
Why parrot ignorant and irresponsible talking points?
I figure people do that to feel good about themselves.
Suggest you read up on the subject and try to influence the best outcome.
I just rememberecd the “rc car chase” in “The Dead Pool”.
My but times do change.
You are talking about the use of individual, large drones. I meant the simultaneous release of hundreds of small, recreation-sized drones. A cloud of drones.
I don’t worry about criminals with drones. I worry about criminals with badges with drones.
Take a gander at some drone videos out of Syria and Iraq. This is a very real threat. There are countermeasures that I no doubt are deployed at major American events.
I doubt there’s Constitutional authority for the FedGov to regulate them in any way.
Strictly speaking, a drone is an “arm”. They are covered.
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