• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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      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.

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      How are you going to make money doing that?

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      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.

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        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.

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    In 5 years we can automate school shootings and put real shooters out of a job.

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      Hmm… maybe they could help at elections, watch and ensure everybody ticks the boxes in the proper column…

      /s

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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.

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    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.

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        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.

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        That’s probably the point. If they do a walk out for Palestine or something you send in the drones to attack them. Blame it on a computer glitch and if all else fails blame it on woke. They’re banning phones at school so that no one will be able to record footage of it happening and so that they can make the school security camera footage just disappear

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    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?

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      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?

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        ☝🏻 Modern NBC Honeywell filters aren’t cheap. I know, I looked into modifying a surplus skin tight Russian gas mask, 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.

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      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.

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    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?”