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Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings
(www.theguardian.com)
Nation of psychopaths. Just control guns FFS.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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Are you crazy? Who will shoot the guns then??
won't somebody PLEASE think of the NRA!
Are they bulletproof?
Fucking LOL.
Let's make school shootings even more confusing by making sure both victims and shooter(s) are all grouped together on the ground screaming about the waeaponized capsacin in their eyes.
Cops in Texas are going to have to explain why they mowed down multiple innocents simply because they couldn't figure out who the shooter was in a sea of kids screaming about getting pepper sprayed after almost getting shot.
This will not end well. It will end with more dead kids not less.
I'm sure this won't be abused at allllll.
It's not going to get used at all. They'll sit in their pods, collecting dust and by the time they get activated, if ever, the batteries will be dead, the control software will have bad update or version mismatch, or the nozzles will be clogged.
I thought this was the onion
I got these for the office to stop people from slacking off. Works like a charm. They’ll get you good if you spend too long at the water cooler.
I'll send you my script to have them monitor bathroom usage. I've perfected lobing the pepper balls over the bathroom partitions.
The only way to stop a bad schoolkid with a gun is with a good drone with a pepper spray?
This well be used on students. Mark my words.
Fight between two students? Better pepper spray everyone on the corredor and send the asmatic kid to the hospital
The US is such a backwards place.
Guy 1: "Uhhh, too many people are shooting up schools with guns. What can we do about that?"
Guy 2: "I know a guy who knows a guy who can make a drone that shoots pepperballs. We can also install bulletproof doors that lock from the inside and get some armed guards to patrol the kindergarden."
Guy 3: "What if we enact some reasonable gun laws?"
Guy 1 and 2: "Ba-ha-ha-ha. Fuck off, commie. Jesus gave all'ya'all these guns. Why do you hate Jesus?"
Damn. I wished we had those in our school back then. What mischief I could have done with a borrowed drone like that...
I can't think of anything more American than weapon-carrying drones being deployed to combat armed attackers in schools.
They need a points system.
And Flock cameras so people can bet.
You know how conservatives yell about protecting the children? HEY MOTHERFUCKERS, KIDS NEED A SAFE ENVIRONMENT TO LEARN AND JUST BE WITHOUT GODDAMN ARMED DRONES FLYING AROUND THE HALLS OF THEIR SCHOOLS. THAT SHIT IS PERVERSE AND WEIRD. WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING? IS NOTHING SACRED? LEAVE THE FUCKIN CHILDREN ALONE.
That’s the most American “solution” to the most American of problems.
Face shields cost only a few bucks. I don't think this achieves anything.
Pepper spray, especially fog-applied, is going to get around that.
they'll just ban private ownership of gas masks, same as they did with body armor in nys.
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And those drones will be controlled by ChatGPT/Grok.
I think it's a good step. With all the guns going around and since Americans are only capable of shooting kids en masse instead of shooting their government up.
Just wait until the school nerd learns to hack them and sends them after the school bully quarterback.
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So they just need to wear non-vented goggles and a filtered mask. Now they have easy targets who are blinded by the pepper spray to which they are immune.
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