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This is such a tricky subject.
You could go with a more strict gun regulations. Coupled with more help for vulnerable people. And free mental healthcare.
Or.
MUTHERFUDGING DRONES, bitches.
It's such a tricky subject. So tricky.
To me, these aren't a bad idea. Immediate response and non-ISH-lethal. They are simply the progression of enforcement technology.
What they are not, is a solution to school shootings. They are not even a bandaid. Some people (law makers) just don't seem to know what "prevention" means.
You said
and yet you also said
in the very same post.
I wouldn't want some bored trigger happy gun nutjob from Texas playing shoot the bad guys with pepper spray on a games console where my kids and their multi ethnic friends are the NPCs.
That's a fair assessment. I'm guessing it's that way because that's where the company that operates this is. Which, now that I think about it, probably is a poor way to manage the whole program.
So I'll post-edit to say: "with local pilot and oversight"