Can’t imagine what could possibly go wrong with this idea.

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    “Let’s test the new firmware in the district with the most minorities.”

    You know it will happen. Maybe they’ll phrase it differently but the decision will be made.

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    I don’t see this going wrong at all. Do you know how long a drone battery lasts? Do you trust AI to pick out the right kids to shoot?

    Wtf timeline am I in?

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    Oh no, now the shooters have drones!

    Stole it from the school.

    Having attended school this hypothetical is entirely 100% plausible. More children will be killed by these drones then they end up protecting.

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      With how they’re also ramping up Christian crap in schools, I imagine them putting little wings and halos, and having kids pray for the drones.

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    theres some gnarly drones. like explosive drones that travel in groups of hundreds. theres nothing you can do when a sea of drones come at you endlessly.

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    Wait until the bullied nerd learns to hack that system and sends the armed drones to exterminate the jocks.

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      That could never happen. The manufacturer assured parents their proprietary software is unhackable.

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    I think this seems ridiculous, but there is a genuine problem that isn’t being solved in better ways, and a police force who refuse to enter a school under an active threat until it’s too late. I guess something is better than nothing?

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      Sorry, I respectfully disagree.

      Too often the “something” which may in some ways be better than nothing, is used as a token solution to soothe the requests of activists.

      For example, banning single use plastics really grinds my gears. People feel like they’ve made a sacrifice, so they must have achieved something. However, everything at the supermarket is still sold in plastic packaging?

      As in, its not “bad” that we no longer use single use plastics, but its not worthy of being called progress.

      Like on a scale of 1 to 10 for plastic reduction efforts, 10 being “no additional plastic” we’re about minus 30. Without this measure we might have been minus 30.2.

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    I’m trying to imagine something like this getting installed in my old school in the UK, and it’s so bizarre and totally removed from my reality growing up that I can’t even picture it.

    The whole concept of a robot armed with a lethal weapon just sitting there in my classroom each and every day, waiting for someone in a remote control centre to decide that someone in the room should be killed? I think that would traumatize me a little even if there never was an attack.

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      I was in a high school that received this active shooter campus wide recognition system. It included a few physical security systems to help autonomously alert if there were gun shots fired somewhere. One of the systems was these green lights inside the normal flourecent lights. They would turn red or flash or something as a visual alert. But the green light cast this weird green glow everywhere in the school and to me it was this eerie constant reminder of the threat. I was only a visitor for a special program for a few days, but even this was a little traumatizing for me. The drone would be terrifying.

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      I don’t think it’s a location thing, it’s an intelligence thing - I’m in Florida and it doesn’t make any more sense to me

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    Once the drones are taken over by child-shooter hackers, ICBM launches against random schools will be used as a deterrent. Failing that all schools will be closed and the problem with “school shootings” will finally be solved! /s

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      You jest, but remember that the Dept of Education has been EO’d almost out of existence, currently run by Vince McMahon’s wife who is a staunch supporter of “school choice” and charter schools. These are the easiest way to re-segregate schools, put the curriculum back in the hands of moneyed interests, and defund public education.

      The trend will be that public schools will have all the kids who are economically disadvantaged, disaffected, badly taught, and unable to be helped by teachers and faculty who are underpaid, understaffed, and hobbled by bad policy, the more school shootings will become a problem that doesn’t affect a certain segment of society. Any parents who can, will pull their kids from failing public schools and pay more to have their kids attend other schools, or even homeschool. The fewer kids the public schools have, the more budget cuts will be authorised.

      All public schools will ultimately be shuttered, under this plan. School shootings will keep happening of course, but once it only affects rich white kids, it will finally be taken seriously, at least.