I think it's mostly training and payload availability.

I don't see why they would spend extra on a fancy "ai" drone when they could use a pilot and place him far away. Spend the savings on more drones, payloads, non-standard frequency hardware.

There's a tiny part of me that wishes they'd start wrecking shit it as a wake-up call to the country, but (in a perfect world) without casualties.

I've been expecting the first self-driving car bomb for a few years now. Could even be a remote controlled car bomb. The tech is there and these cars aren't impossible to steal.

Also for political assassinations. Sniping is so oldfashioned, when you can hit your targets while being nowhere near the area where it happens.

nah, In the states it's more common and accepted to just shootup your local school.

It took them fucking 3 years of seeing them in action to even contemplate this?

Yeah, because this isn't Battlefield Earth. You can't stick cave men in jets and expect them to know how it works. Drones had to get so Fisher Price My First UAV easy that these fools can use it with their usual trailer park kitchen-made kinetic setups.

The legal guns help justify expansions of the police state. They're never going to ban guns. Its far easier to use fear to control everyone and say your opponents will take away your pacifiers. The drones will be exactly the same in purpose but it adds a layer of surveillance.

Supporting Palestinians statehood, and right to exist, is all you need to be considered a left wing terrorist.