Three districts in the state will have the devices available as a first-response option that coordinates with local law enforcement, drone provider Campus Guardian Angel says.

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

  • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
    66·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Probably Israel. They’ve been testing drones with sniper rifles on Gaza. Worse, the list of people to assassinate is generated by AI (Lavendar)

    • ChetManly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

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

    • modus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

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

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      The only way you’re going to get rid of billions of guns is if you have a magic genie or a monkey paw.

      If our country actually cared and was a force of good and peace, we would have a long-term plan for things like buyback as well as strict regulations and MAYBE in a hundred years we would be gun-free for the most part, but the guns are only half the problem.

      The problem is the lack of community and the atomization of our feelings and perspectives. People don’t shoot up schools when they feel loved, connected and unafraid of their future. When people have something to live for, they want to help each other see that future.

      That’s the rotten part, that’s where our country is dying. We drank too deep of the well of “rugged individualism” and now everyone is wandering around like it’s a video game and NPC’s don’t deserve second thought.

  • SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    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

    • jacksilver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • artifex@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      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

    • xorollo@leminal.spaceEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      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?