I can't imagine that anything will go wrong. /s

anything but the actual, common sense, solution

That one kid with a flipper zero: hold my juice box

Ah, sniper drones. Like the ones Israel has been using to shoot children in the head.

Tried and tested on Palestinian children, now ready for the open market.

I wonder who is manufacturing the drones...

Wait until the bullied nerd learns to hack that system and sends the armed drones to exterminate the jocks.

Snort idea. Get there fast and get them down. If, as the article says, the most deaths happen in the first 120 seconds, then time is of the essence to stop them as quickly as possible.

Then again, they could just start feeding people properly and make guns harder to get. But since those are apparently not an option, I guess this is a "best of a bad situation" kind of deal.

Everything except getting rid of guns.

What a rotten shithole of a country.

Fortunately they are currently only equipped with non lethal capabilities. So it's going to be fun to watch the consequences of someone hacking into them and people to realize how much of a bad idea this was

"Our drones can create a distraction." Yeah, from gun control.

Yep, these definitely won't get hacked

This is called over-engineering the solution

I'm trying to imagine something like this getting installed in my old school in the UK, and it's so bizarre and totally removed from my reality growing up that I can't even picture it.

The whole concept of a robot armed with a lethal weapon just sitting there in my classroom each and every day, waiting for someone in a remote control centre to decide that someone in the room should be killed? I think that would traumatize me a little even if there never was an attack.

This is so much better than passing common sense gun laws.

Shit. They still haven't thought of the obvious solution.

wait, how are they going to "test" this?

Reminds me of the short film Slaughterbots from a while back. 7 years later and it doesn't seem all that much like fiction anymore...

Of course the password to the school's drone control system was just "admin1234"

It's on. Shooters will now respond with armed drones.

ED-209: CITIZEN, DROP THE WEAPON. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY.

Random Kid: B...b... But I don't even have a weapon!

ED-209: YOU NOW HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY. 9. 8. 7...

When they'll resort to deadly sky robots to "protect" children before they'll regulate who can have access to firearms...

Often we see people being demonised and dehumanized for political purposes. Americans basically dehumanize themselves.

As a parent I can't think of anything much more traumatic than losing a child to a gun massacre. It makes me furious. Watching Americans passively do nothing about this for decades has gone from infuriating to blame. I can't relate to them anymore.

I didn't make them sub-human by questioning their race or religion or politics. They made themselves sub-human by ignoring the most basic moral and ethical requirements of human society and family. Watching them kill each other won't bring me joy but it doesn't outrage me as much as watching people in war torn countries being massacred in conflicts over which they had no control.

This was a choice from a weak broken society.

I don't see this going wrong at all. Do you know how long a drone battery lasts? Do you trust AI to pick out the right kids to shoot?

Wtf timeline am I in?

Anything besides sensible gun control.

Thank god merica ha the right to bear arms against the tyranny. ... ... Any time now ... ... Someone.

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is... An idiot with a drone?

At a demonstration of the drones at AcadeMir Preparatory High School in South Miami-Dade, the company showed how the drones are capable of using what the company calls “kinetic energy hits” to knock someone over.

I can’t even with this shit 😝

Might be cheaper if you just gave each student a gun.

They walk to school, check all their bags for firearms (take any away that are brought in) ... then after the security check, they are given their own holstered small sidearm that they have to keep visually on them at all times during school hours. It has to stay visible to everyone at all times.

Is the idea to stop a kid from killing their classmates by killing everyone before they get the chance?