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Armed drones to be deployed at schools to stop mass shooters (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You know how most school shootings can be stopped in the US? Safe storage laws. Most of the time the shooter is an underage kid who got access to their parents' guns and went to shoot up the school. Obviously it wouldn't stop shit like Uvalde and Sandy Hook. But it would still stop a fuckload of smaller shootings we don't hear about because they are background noise at this point.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    How would you enforce such a law? Sounds like all they would do would be to allow you to prosecute people after the fact.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes, and when people realize it is being enforced they will do it more.

    Also add the cavet that if a gun is stolen and misused by a member of the household, they would be liable for whatever actions were taken. This putting them on the hook for the shooting, too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Honestly I'm not sure about that. Most people don't want their kids to be murderers in the first place, yet here we are. They never think their kid would do it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's wishful thinking. We've seen time and time again that parents are (willfully) ignorant about their kids mental health issues and will look their other way while their precious sketching hallways and figures out the choke points.

    You're responsible for the people your gun kills is a pretty simple fix and would probably lead to lots of people buying gun safes overnight.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Safe storage laws, licenses and responsibility for anything that happens with your gun. No public carry laws. Removal of gun owning rights for people that commit violent or drug related crime. These are like the bare minimum needed to have a society with guns.

    Police vists for people acting unhinged online and check they dont have any illegal weapons. Different classes of licenses with increased scruity.

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