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

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    Once the drones are taken over by child-shooter hackers, ICBM launches against random schools will be used as a deterrent. Failing that all schools will be closed and the problem with “school shootings” will finally be solved! /s

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

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

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    I’ve been predicting that terrorist (aka conservatives in the US) will start using them from long range soon. I’m surprised that this didn’t start happening sooner but I guess people of that disposition aren’t very clever so it’s taken a whole lot longer to catch on.

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    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.

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    Then those coward pigs can finally do something while they’re hiding. And probably make more victims

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    Often we see people being demonised and dehumanized for political purposes. Americans basically dehumanize themselves.

    As a parent I can’t think of anything much more traumatic than losing a child to a gun massacre. It makes me furious. Watching Americans passively do nothing about this for decades has gone from infuriating to blame. I can’t relate to them anymore.

    I didn’t make them sub-human by questioning their race or religion or politics. They made themselves sub-human by ignoring the most basic moral and ethical requirements of human society and family. Watching them kill each other won’t bring me joy but it doesn’t outrage me as much as watching people in war torn countries being massacred in conflicts over which they had no control.

    This was a choice from a weak broken society.

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    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.

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      Random Kid: W…w… We were just shooting spit balls! It’s just a straw, please!

      ED-209: WEAPON CONFIRMED, ARMING RAIL GUN.

      kid reduced to fine red mist

      ED-209: TARGET NEUTRALIZED. STATE IF PARENTS SHOULD BE NOTIFIED THROUGH TEXT.

      no response

      ED-209: VERY WELL, ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR SCHOOL DAY.

      drone flies off

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      Which is what? Details please. Your solution must be legal and practical. Go.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        Let more children die. That’s legal and practical.

        Otherwise you’d have to have legislators do their jobs and make laws.

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        get some of the guns off the streets; particularly automatics and semi autos. those didn’t exist for maybe the first quarter to half of the history of the country. feels like every other civilized country seems not to have these problems like we do.

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          Trump has shown us that we can, in fact, send federal agents to enforce laws (and then some) without so much as a whimper. So the solution is obviously to confiscate the guns.

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          You must enact this plan without running afoul of the 2nd Amendment. It exists and courts have upheld it to mean a personal right to gun ownership.

          Doesn’t matter if you like it. Doesn’t matter if I like it. The 2nd Amendment is a fact. The court rulings are a fact.

          So? Got a realistic plan?

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            trump and by proxy his supporters, cherry pick laws (much like many religious folk do with their biblical teachings) and those who enforce them, openly muses and acts on disobeying long standing, precedented law. congress and the supreme court have abdicated any semblance of independence to the culture cult. for example: trump is trying to end birthright citizenship.

            all those second amendment defenders cry foul of any changes to it in the name of protection from tyrannical government, yet tyrannical government is here and no one bats an eye.

            history is repeating itself, especially when you’re following nazi playbooks. How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Dayshttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

            there is absolutely nothing normal about what’s going on and yet trigger fingers stand idly by as rome burns

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            Your god king has already ignored the constitution countless times in the past 9 months. The second amendment means nothing, all thanks to him.

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            A new constitution. Your government doesn’t give a shit about it, so make a new one.

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              That involves first shooting the 2nd amendment folk so you still need to have guns though?

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                Wow Americans love violence so much you can literally not think of another way, huh?

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                  I’m not American.

                  There are tens of millions of rabid Trump supporters with guns. They are not willing to compromise on any single issue and if you disagree with the emperor, that’s treason.

                  How exactly are you going to win their hearts and minds while being a wanted terrorist (which you will be declared as, since being against fascism is now officially terrorism)?

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      Amen. Doesn’t mean guns will immediately be illegal. It just won’t be something you can obtain simply for living to a long enough point.