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Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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If you can't (or won't) cut down on having firearms freely available, and if you cannot (or will not) do more on the mental health side of prevention, and you have already invented bullet proof whiteboards, doors like battlefield tanks, and implemented a system of metal detector entry checks and maybe deployed an armed guard, then this is an almost good idea. It's the blinking light in the window and an alarm system sticker on the window that may deter a thief but for school shootings.
I'm not sure about pepper spray. Is a blind shooter unloading their AR-15 magazine an improvement over a fully sighted one? Why aren't they equipping them with tranquilizer darts? Cross promotion potential for zoos as well.
What are the odds that we get coordinated school attacks and we find out one part-time student at the control center can't fly 5 drones in 5 different high schools at the same time?
Pepper spray doesn't have to be accurate and it's more immediate than a tranquilizer (which could also be dangerous because the same amount of traquilizer used on a grown adult could kill a kid).
That being said this is "let's try anything except addressing mental health, bullying, and gun control".