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Axon’s Ethics Board Resigned over Taser-Armed Drones

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well, why not just arm the teachers to the teeth and give them permission to kill in the name of kids' safety?

i guess it's a unique problem to the greatest empire on earth where nobody can't seem to be agree whether kids life is more important than the right to own arms.

b-b-b-but bro! the only ones who can stop bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun! they can pew pew the fuck out of bad guy in no time! too bad, bro. in tfa, those pussy ass uvalde cops who're supposedly the good guys turned out to be, well, pussy ass try hards.

b-b-but bro! if it costs us the safety of our own people in place of the right to bear arms, so be it bro! we're the best country in the world! murica murica murica!

> nobody can't seem to be agree whether kids life is more important than the right to own arms.

I think the consensus is that the right is more important. But it’s not unanimous.

So lots of people do agree on this.

I think it’s important that people debate this constructively, and if the ideas of the country change then work on a constitutional amendment. This is hard, so it seems more common for people to bray.

would you shoot at someone that was actively shooting at people?

just curious.

bro.

The title is a bit misleading. The point of the article isn't that their ethics board resigned - that happened a while ago (right after the Uvalde shooting). The point of this article is that even after the board resignation over taser-carrying drones and a shareholder proposal to stop drone development, Axon bought a drone company anyway.

“Everyone deserves public safety,”

You're not gonna create that with more weapons, surveillance, fear, and oppression. Totally the wrong direction to take as a society.

"The beatings will continue until morale improves" kind of thing. :(

The problem is that armed drones only work if you have time to deploy them.

Security guards will react faster than armed drones and will be more resilient to problems.

Nobody suggesting tazer armed drones for school shootings has every worked in a uniform carrying a gun.

this is at the same level as drone-based package delivery - a drone looking for a problem.

it would make far more sense to enable each room to essentially neutralize life forms inside the room. non-lethally.

mass shooter in the school? everyone in the hallway go night night.

that’s a bit limiting though. maybe we could just get something installed shortly after birth…

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