5d ago

Texas Schools Add Attack Drones To Protect Students

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5d ago

Texas Schools Add Attack Drones To Protect Students

www.dallasobserver.com /news/texas-schools-deploy-attack-drones-to-protect-students-what-to-know-22698222

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“As far as I’m concerned, we’ve got to protect the children. We have to be able to disrupt intruders,” West said at the demo. “We saw what happened in Uvalde. School resource officers were hesitant to go into that room, and so what you’ve got to recognize is, there’s a danger for them also, but they are there on the front line.”
But it wasn't just the school resource officers not going in, was it?
The cops had assault rifles and ballistic shields and flashbangs and body armor. What makes you think one more toy is gonna make a difference?
You know what the real solution for the problem is? Banning schools! If you don't have schools, you can't have school shootings!
They could just teach children at the churches.
- Or after their shift at the slaughterhouse
- Decentralize the education? You lemmings have a one track mind…
Schools are cutting funding for free lunch programs but are supposed to have funds for this?
- Well, duh?! How else are they supposed to protect children from school shootings? Banning firearms?
  
  Starving kids make for smaller targets?
I assumed this was the onion....reality wins again.
ED-209: ILLEGAL THOUGHT DETECTED.
ED-209: IMMEDIATELY STOP. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
Teacher: You better stop thinking independently, Kinny.
Kinny: stops singing Captain Planet themesong
ED-209: YOU NOW HAVE 15 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
ED-209: I AM NOW AUTHORIZED TO USE PHYSICAL FORCE.
If this happened in China we would call it ridiculous
This needs to be the second panel of one of those "Hey America how's it goin?" memes.
- beautiful.
The high-tech drones, which are piloted by a team of former military men and nationally ranked professional drone racers,
For now. Eventually when they've got these in every district they outsource drone piloting to save cost, either to India or AI.
Honestly, im not 100% against the concept. It's like a sprinkler system, but for shooters. And i reckon school resource officers aren't held to much of a standard either so...
That's a good point about the wifi jammers i admit. But I don't know of any active shooter events that involved someone who put that level of thought into it, not to say there arent any its just... idk.. Couldn't be that hard to swat it out of the air in a hallway...
- Shooting reported on school campus.
  Teach pulls out gun to protect students from shooter
  Teacher mowed down by drone.
  How are they supposed to know who the shooter is? If it's just finding the one with the gun, then I assume you have to ban teachers from bringing guns again.
  
  I mean, presumably the pilot would be able to tell because the teacher with the gun is barricaded in a room with students theyre not shooting
- If they're using anything other than shit tier components they can have a load of different control and video frequencies on different drones, all in the same building. No serious drone is gonna be reliant on fucking wifi, unless it's a child's toy lol
  
  You need to revisit the question with the idea of "what will maximize profits" in mind.
- I mean. I always see stuff to indicate the shooters put a shit ton of thought into it. I have yet to see one were in the morning they were like. lol gonna gun it up.
Can’t wait til China hacks into this.
I… vomited (boofed?) the onion on this one hard. After reading the article, it’s not actually as bad as it sounds, but I don’t trust that there’s any way to encrypt or bar access to these drones that will stand up to all of the kids in Texas schools.
- “When we think about it, it's less militarizing than having police officers carrying guns everywhere."
The article doesn't mention a single school actually buying this system.
This is ridiculous. Clearly the solution is for Elon Musk's Boring Company to build Hyperloops underneath each school, to allow students to escape quickly in their Teslas.
Goddamn Texahoma. Your school administrators are the bad kind of crazy.
- I recently finished a historical novel where an old man asked a boy if he was an Oki, and the boy replied he's from the Texas panhandle. The old man replied they're the same thing, so your comment amused me.

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