You seem to be making it unnecessarily dramatic for comedic effect and it does not have be government in attempt to dismiss genuine concern. The only reason I am not expanding on it is because I do not want to give people ideas.
I guarantee you that you haven't come up with any ideas in the few minutes you've been thinking as a casual and presumably non-criminal observer that haven't been thought of already by countless criminal and terrorist groups. The only thing you're accomplishing by being vague is making it hard for us to understand what you're getting at.
Whether the idea has occurred to a bad actor and if they choose to act on it are very different.
We effectively “promote” bad ideas with detailed public discussion; it’s literally what influencers get paid to do.
<< I guarantee you that you haven't come up with any ideas [...]that haven't been thought of already by countless criminal and terrorist groups.
It is likely. My imagination is somewhat limited, but this is kinda the point. If I can think it, a sizeable portion of the population can as well. The difference is that it just made it now is easier to deploy in non-benign manner. My concern is not with terror orgs. Those can and do their own thing. I am worried about a casual kid, who uses it for 'pranks' that will happen, as they seem to invariably eventually do, to go too far.
Do you really not see the difference?
You could drop stuff from a drone or have a drone shoot a gun too, but people don't want to hurt other people in general.
What scenario is in your head that you think being able to drop something and hurt or kill someone is going to happen more if people can do it automatically?
Who are these people that aren't hurting anyone but are suddenly going to do it once it becomes a science project?
Well and because your ideas are either fantasy land or old hat.