While the drones are armed, they use non-lethal or less-lethal weaponry, allowing them to distract, disorient, confront, degrade, and incapacitate shooters, according to the company. They carry pepper rounds and a glass breaker for quickly entering classrooms.
Despite not carrying lethal firepower, having 30 to 90 of these drones in schools has raised concerns. Beyond any potential technical issues, there’s always the possibility they could make a shooting situation even worse or more complicated. There are question marks over the kind of training the operators receive, too. Then there’s the storage safety aspect, as well as the potential of a drone colliding with a student or law enforcement as it zooms through corridors at 50mph.
We’ll find out how successful the system is soon enough. Campus Guardian Angel aims to install the drones in the schools permanently in September and October, ahead of the fully operational live service starting in January.
Anything except dealing with the problem itself.
I left the US and took my kids. We no longer have to deal with active shooter drills and school shootings are a national tragedy here, with about one per decade.
Have your cyberpunk drones and children terror drills, but make sure you can still have your guns!
How long until one is hijacked?
While the drones are armed, they use non-lethal or less-lethal weaponry,
Less lethal? So still lethal.
Why is everyone so keen on making Terminator real?
Calling it now, we’ll see 30-90 pepper ball armed drones descend on a protest in the US within the next two years.
