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Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    (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)?

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