Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings

The Register (UK) ^ | Fri 3 Jun 2022 | Thomas Claburn

[Salman]

Rick Smith, founder and CEO of body camera and Taser maker Axon, believes he has a way to reduce the risk of school children being shot by people with guns.

No, it doesn't involve reducing access to guns, which Smith dismisses as politically unworkable in the US. Nor does it involve relocating to any of the many countries where school shootings seldom, if ever, occur and – coincidentally – where there are laws that limit access to guns.

Here's a hint – his answer involves Axon.

Smith's proposal involves mounting his company's occasionally lethal Taser [PDF] on drones, based on the premise that remotely operated electric shock drones will do what Uvalde police did not – intervene to stop a gunman (and it's almost always men) from murdering minors with assault rifles and the like.

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[Salman]

No way this could be misused, right?

[SpaceBar]

The Taser company is on crack.

[bgill]

It’d have to be equipped with a set of janitor keys.

[Blennos]

At first thought, this is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard.

[BenLurkin]

Classic example of “Just because you can...”

[grey_whiskers]

Does it work on high gas prices too?
(”Pain at the pump” and all that.)

[Pikachu_Dad]

‘0cassionally lethal taser ’?

Who wrote this stuff?

[Pikachu_Dad]

Interesting idea.

Tasers mounted in classrooms.

No drone needed.

Could work.

[Savage Beast]

This appears to be an idea worth considering.

Not watch the woke nutcases try to sabotage it!

[OpusatFR]

Does it magically fly through classroom doors and walls?

No?

I suppose loading an explosive on it might work to blast through an obstruction. Maybe a hellfire missile Sure. That would kill the perp.

[Carriage Hill]

Works on a battlefield, but not in a schoolyard.

[Az Joe]

Hmmmmm....how bout we just tase all teenagers once a week to keep them in line?

[Leep]

How about a sprinkler system that sprays mace..or similar.. all over a room..?

[bk1000]

“ …the many countries where school shootings seldom, if ever, occur and – coincidentally – where there are laws that limit access to guns.”

Too bad there are no such laws in the US.

What an idiot.

[Brilliant]

Libs will ban it.

[blueunicorn6]

We need to consider every option to stop mass shootings.

The Democrats have only one option and it has never worked.

[LibertyWoman]

Minority Report comes closer to reality

[BiglyCommentary]

Wasn’t this shooter wearing a bullet proof vest. IDEA FAIL

Spray bear spray from the drone(s). Send em in and after the shooter is hosed down, cops go through the door.

[bigbob]

Yeah, here’s a better idea:

https://youtu.be/Z3_eEO0Cvwg

[BiglyCommentary]

Mace or bear spray on fast moving drones. Very hard to shoot down. Have one go through the window and door at the same time.