Florida schools will test armed drones this fall to thwart shooters
Florida schools will test armed drones this fall to thwart shooters
Can't imagine what could possibly go wrong with this idea.
"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.
Of course the password to the school's drone control system was just "admin1234"
It's on. Shooters will now respond with armed drones.
government to use air strikes to prevent drone powered school shootings
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?
The one where five white dudes who hoarded all the money control everything.
This is so much better than passing common sense gun laws.
Campus Guardian Angel 🙄🙄🙄
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.
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.
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?
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.
Wait until the bullied nerd learns to hack that system and sends the armed drones to exterminate the jocks.
That could never happen. The manufacturer assured parents their proprietary software is unhackable.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
I see no possibility of this going wrong. /s
Yep, these definitely won't get hacked
Damn, even school shooters get to work from home now.
Why get your hands bloody assaulting a school yourself, when you can get a job at the drone control centre and mow down a bunch of kids from two cities away?
Betting there’s a contest for it at Defcon 2026
I can't imagine that anything will go wrong. /s
Ah, sniper drones. Like the ones Israel has been using to shoot children in the head.
Tried and tested on Palestinian children, now ready for the open market.
Link?
Mostly I've heard about this from interviews with international volunteer doctors in Gaza
https://www.commondreams.org/news/doctors-describe-gaza-children-shot-in-head
I've been predicting that terrorist (aka conservatives in the US) will start using them from long range soon. I'm surprised that this didn't start happening sooner but I guess people of that disposition aren't very clever so it's taken a whole lot longer to catch on.
anything but the actual, common sense, solution
They don't do common sense over there.
Which is what? Details please. Your solution must be legal and practical. Go.
EDIT: As I figured. Angry children will no real policy ideas, no real laws to be enacted, totally ignorant of how Constitutional amendments work.
I want REAL fucking ideas, real HELP!
Lemmy: "no you"
If you're not adult enough to comment, refrain.
Let more children die. That's legal and practical.
Otherwise you'd have to have legislators do their jobs and make laws.
get some of the guns off the streets; particularly automatics and semi autos. those didn’t exist for maybe the first quarter to half of the history of the country. feels like every other civilized country seems not to have these problems like we do.
That one kid with a flipper zero: hold my juice box
It is so much worse than that
What happens when they can't figure out who compromised the device?
Then those coward pigs can finally do something while they're hiding. And probably make more victims
Often we see people being demonised and dehumanized for political purposes. Americans basically dehumanize themselves.
As a parent I can't think of anything much more traumatic than losing a child to a gun massacre. It makes me furious. Watching Americans passively do nothing about this for decades has gone from infuriating to blame. I can't relate to them anymore.
I didn't make them sub-human by questioning their race or religion or politics. They made themselves sub-human by ignoring the most basic moral and ethical requirements of human society and family. Watching them kill each other won't bring me joy but it doesn't outrage me as much as watching people in war torn countries being massacred in conflicts over which they had no control.
This was a choice from a weak broken society.
ED-209: CITIZEN, DROP THE WEAPON. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
Random Kid: B...b... But I don't even have a weapon!
ED-209: YOU NOW HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY. 9. 8. 7...
Random Kid: W...w... We were just shooting spit balls! It's just a straw, please!
ED-209: WEAPON CONFIRMED, ARMING RAIL GUN.
kid reduced to fine red mist
ED-209: TARGET NEUTRALIZED. STATE IF PARENTS SHOULD BE NOTIFIED THROUGH TEXT.
no response
ED-209: VERY WELL, ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR SCHOOL DAY.
drone flies off
I read the title and came here to post the same thing.
Anything besides sensible gun control.
I wonder who is manufacturing the drones...
Lawmakers in the state approved $557,000 in the 2025-2026 state budget to pay for the demonstrations using drones operated by Texas-based company Campus Guardian Angel.
Probably Israel. They've been testing drones with sniper rifles on Gaza. Worse, the list of people to assassinate is generated by AI (Lavendar)
The video system is DJI based on the fpv overlay. They also show OnyxStar motors which is a european company. I bet they are just assembled by someone like Unusual Machines in the US.
Nobody reads the article these days 😞
Ugh. It’s . . . Texas.
Fortunately they are currently only equipped with non lethal capabilities. So it's going to be fun to watch the consequences of someone hacking into them and people to realize how much of a bad idea this was
This is called over-engineering the solution
I mean, not really. Cause it's not even a solution.
It's more likely a grift some politician is using to pay a friend some money to play with drones.
The profitable solution!
Shit. They still haven't thought of the obvious solution.
Gator's with mounted guns. You're right!
Frickin lasers on their heads!
Snort idea. Get there fast and get them down. If, as the article says, the most deaths happen in the first 120 seconds, then time is of the essence to stop them as quickly as possible.
Then again, they could just start feeding people properly and make guns harder to get. But since those are apparently not an option, I guess this is a "best of a bad situation" kind of deal.
I wonder if the tele-cops operating these things will get bonus points for friendly fire hits
I'm giving 5 to 1 that within the first three months some script kiddie will take one for a joy ride around campus.
"Our drones can create a distraction." Yeah, from gun control.
Armed with pepper balls
"Once airborne, they offer two-way communication through an embedded speakerphone. They also can break glass, make loud noises, fire nonlethal pepper-spray pellets or take other action within a minute as a first response to an incident. "
Whats "other action"?
Doesnt say specifically. Says later in the article that it can knock people down with "kinetic attacks," so probably that. Or maybe a secret rocket launcher, idk
Reminds me of the short film Slaughterbots from a while back. 7 years later and it doesn't seem all that much like fiction anymore...
that little film is scary as shit and was always destined to come true
Reminds me of the "well programmed" turrets outside the jail in Idiocracy, the ones that shoot each other...
Skynet for brown people
repeal the 2nd amendment
Amen. Doesn't mean guns will immediately be illegal. It just won't be something you can obtain simply for living to a long enough point.
When they'll resort to deadly sky robots to "protect" children before they'll regulate who can have access to firearms...
So instead of dealing with the actual problem... they're going to add to the problem. Wow. What a fucking liberty.
EDIT: I clearly didn't read the article. Not going to rewrite or delete what I said. Keeping my integrity. Thanks 👌
Thank god merica ha the right to bear arms against the tyranny. ... ... Any time now ... ... Someone.
I'm armed to the teeth, and well practiced. Tell me what you would have me do. Spell it out.
EDIT: I have never received an answer to this question.
Is the idea to stop a kid from killing their classmates by killing everyone before they get the chance?
At a demonstration of the drones at AcadeMir Preparatory High School in South Miami-Dade, the company showed how the drones are capable of using what the company calls “kinetic energy hits” to knock someone over.
I can’t even with this shit 😝
Might be cheaper if you just gave each student a gun.
They walk to school, check all their bags for firearms (take any away that are brought in) ... then after the security check, they are given their own holstered small sidearm that they have to keep visually on them at all times during school hours. It has to stay visible to everyone at all times.
This reads like a MAGA wet dream.
OMG Joey doesn't have a gun!
20 students draw on him
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is... An idiot with a drone?
Noooo. Pff. Read the article.
It’s a Texas idiot with a Florida drone. So. Yeah.
Why wouldn't you assume it's autonomous?
A drone that size carrying only a go-pro has a battery life of only a few minutes. With all the shit this company glued to it I'm sure the shooter just has to close a door and count to 100 and the thing will fall out of the air.
So do they just circle over the school until the shooter has killed everyone and leaves the building?
They have to make sure it is safe for the police to go in.
So do the drones have like, an explosive charge on it to kill the shooters like we use in war right now?
If so why is that at a school?
If not then what do they think a drone is fucking gonna do?
Really, this is the US government terrorizing children and a corporation using them as test subjects disguised as a security measure.
I don't deal with children, is this sort of thing not a deal breaker for parents?
"Do you have and/or operate armed drones" has not been one of the questions I've thought to bring up at past PTA meetings.
And a state-of-the art facility where all the children are held in place by magnets.
I can't wait for one of these drones to go rouge...
They'll definitely look pretty with makeup on
And red is probably their color too.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure ass shit
Better not wear a Biden hat to school.
2028: there have been 37 fatal school hackings so far this year
ED209 from Robocop was my first thought
A crude emp pulse generator is very easy to make. You could probably do it with just the junk tech everyone has around at this point. Battery, wire, switch, maybe a metal bar. Think a capacitor is the only real thing most people can't just throw together. I mean you could but it takes a little skill.
And truancy!