It’s a bit ironic that we win the contests for exercise of the right to arms at just the moment in history when firearms are about to become increasingly less relevant to personal security and national security. Because of ever-smaller guided missiles and robots and robotic weapons.
Off-the-shelf affordable robots will be playmates for your children, maids for your house, waiters, and yes they will be used in crime, which should be no surprise. Mostly they’ll be used for burglary and robbery, but some will be used for terrorism of course, and some will be used by sick freaks for thrill crimes.
The robots will have semi-autonomous features, such as maintaining balance automatically, but mostly they will be remote-controlled by a human wearing a VR headset. The robot will in fact serve as a mechanical avatar for the operator.
If a bit of attention is paid to armoring the vital parts, a hobbit-sized robot can be made very difficult to stop with a hand gun. Make the robot larger and able to carry more armor, then you might not be able to stop it with a deer rifle. They will move fast so you won’t get many shots. Some of the smaller monkey-bots will be very fast.
We’ve seen nothing of the age of machines, yet. Nothing. They don’t feel pain or fear, suppressive fire won’t work, they won’t stop until they’re literally disassembled. We’re gonna need something better than gunpowder.
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