I predict the first kid to get pepper-sprayed will be Black.
Not even Polymarket is taking those bets
Aren’t most shooters actually white? That was my impression.
Now I am going to Google this. Hello rabbit hole!
Edit: yep it is a white hobby.
(Btw I got the joke- just sayin)I predict the first kid to get pepper-sprayed will be Black.
Didn’t you know that the only racist is the person who talks about it like that
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Oops, that was just a poptart. We’ll release a statement later vaguely alluding to a software malfunction without actually apologizing or assuming any responsibility.
I bet it’s gonna be Tolkien Black.
The call with Cartman was great.
you’re not wrong.
in a more comical scenario, i predict that a programming club will get expelled for using their flipper zero to take control of the pepper spraying drone.
Why not solve the gun problem?
Muh freedom!!!11! /s
Don’t be silly, spoilt sport willy. War industrial machine needs to be fed!
What problem?
I mean the US is too lax with access to guns, but they also have many other problems that lead to this. I mean it’s telling that mass shootings don’t really happen anywhere else, even in places with effectively no gun control.
There is really no other comparable country in the world with the same gun proliferation as the US..
So yes, guns are definitely the main factor here.
You can’t assume a correlation from one data point. If it’s the guns, then that’ll show up in data from other countries too. When’s the last time you heard of a mass shooting in Yemen?
Couple that with the fact that so many Americans wanting to shoot as many human beings as physically possible is still an enormous cause for concern even if we somehow prevent them from getting a gun.
Because it’s literally impossible to solve. The party which would do that would literally be guaranteed to lose the next election and the other party would then revert the decision. A massive part of the US population gets really pissed when you try to take their guns (or even just the possibility of them having guns in the future). Trying to actually restrict gun ownership is political suicide in the US.
What could be done is solving the actual problem: Kids turning into psychopaths by being bullied over years until their mind breaks.
I’ll disagree with you. But I have no energy to engage in this specific topic. I recommend you to look outside and check how other people are solving this problem.
The drones can remain airborne for about eight minutes on a single battery charge
- Hear drone
- Hide for 8 minutes
- Drone evaded
It’s a pepper spray drone, delaying them from killing people is the point in the first place.
Couldn’t you just shoot the drone?
Me personally? No.
Sounds like you need to believe in yourself a little more
That’s the most American “solution” to the most American of problems.
It’s missing a gun though.
Give it time
So they just need to wear non-vented goggles and a filtered mask. Now they have easy targets who are blinded by the pepper spray to which they are immune.
Or they could just shoot the drone.
Why? It’s incapacitated the potential targets. Let the drone shoot, the shooter need not worry if they are immune to it’s effects.
Little Billy took a wrong turn, though. He slipped on the spray that settled on the ground. The ambient spray in the air has drifted into his eyes. Now he can’t see, doesn’t know which way to crawl. His panic and pain will be short lived, as the shooter no longer needs to aim, as his target is unable to flee.
Nation of psychopaths. Just control guns FFS.
Are you crazy? Who will shoot the guns then??
Didn’t you read the article? Clearly they are…they had some self-control, and fitted the drones with less-lethals instead.
You want them to strap it with an AR or something?
Maybe it’s just my inner gamer talking, but isn’t the kid doing the school shooting just going to shoot down the drone for bonus points?
Evidently the idea is waves of drones to keep him busy till the cops get there
Till the cops get there and do what? Not go in? Because, that’s what cops do at active school shootings--hide.
Pretty much
Sounds expensive…
Send the school children, those are free!
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Some bored kid in robotics class is gonna hack a drone and spray a bunch unsuspecting classmates one day.
Exactly this! My son tried to print a picture of a fire alarm from his school Chromebook and some how sent the print job to every single printer in the building. The IT department had absolutely no idea how he was able to do it, because only teachers are supposed to be able to connect to the printers. Now imagine that with drones filled with pepper spray.
What could go wrong?
How long til they’re deployed on rowdy students?
When I was in school is was not uncommon for some asshole to mace a hallway right before class was dismissed. Really it would just be carrying on a long standing tradition.
I came here to say this.
so now the kids will have to run and hide while blind and in pain
And school shooters will need gas masks. Stupid fucking solution.
☝🏻 Modern NBC Honeywell filters aren’t cheap. I know, I looked into modifying a surplus skin tight Russian one, first term Trump. If I survived a nuclear blast I’d still hope to be able to breathe was the point.
Either way, it gets costly because once you open that filter, you better be ready to use it, kind of thing, meaning they start to degrade once you open one. So, it’s not the masks really that get ya, it’s the price of the filters.
Something tells me thry won’t be using them specifically for school shootings.
Hmm… maybe they could help at elections, watch and ensure everybody ticks the boxes in the proper column…
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These are absolutely going to be used to break up big fights, then small fights, then arguments, then they’ll just be roaming the halls looking for any undesirable activities.
next thing it will be drones with guns.
The US is such a backwards place.
Guy 1: “Uhhh, too many people are shooting up schools with guns. What can we do about that?”
Guy 2: “I know a guy who knows a guy who can make a drone that shoots pepperballs. We can also install bulletproof doors that lock from the inside and get some armed guards to patrol the kindergarden.”
Guy 3: “What if we enact some reasonable gun laws?”
Guy 1 and 2: “Ba-ha-ha-ha. Fuck off, commie. Jesus gave all’ya’all these guns. Why do you hate Jesus?”
Anything but gun regulation
If it was needed founders would have passed a right to a childhood
I’m sure this won’t be abused at allllll.
It’s not going to get used at all. They’ll sit in their pods, collecting dust and by the time they get activated, if ever, the batteries will be dead, the control software will have bad update or version mismatch, or the nozzles will be clogged.
It’ll require a sideloaded android app and they’ll have to wait 24 hours to use it.
(I’m not a US citizen; I believe guns should be controlled and there’s no reason for a citizen to own a gun)
Don’t US school run shooter exercises? Darwin, even here in the UK where I live, the secondary school (12-16) ran twice yearly active shooter exercises - although they called them something else, like “lockdown exercise” and we’ve only ever had one school shooting (1996).
My point being that surely any exercise would train the whole response system, including pepper spray drones (still can’t quite believe I’m typing this - anything to avoid actual gun control, I guess)?
