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Massachusetts: robotic police dog shot and credited with averting bloodshed
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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The guy inside was shooting at officers outside and shot at multiple robots inside. Multiple strikes to one that finally made it fail. Zero humans (assailant or officers) were injured in all of this because of the use of robots.
I'm interested in hearing what other non-robot method are you suggesting that would have had the same result with equal safety to humans?
Are you really serious? Think about what you just wrote.
That's your first clue.
By no police officers being harmed. I'd say it helped quite well.
I'm not sure why you're siding with a dude who is willing to shoot at people, cops or not.
Where is he in the house to gas him? Does he have any hostages with him he is threatening? Would those same hostages be harmed by the gas (medically frail or children)? Is he even still alive or did he shoot himself at some point and is already dead?
Those are just a few problems I can think of quickly with starting with gassing him without knowing everything they did because robots were in there.