...might just come from the sky. Take a look at the following:
news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/developers-selling-dragonfly-robotic-drone-around-100-230833631.html Small drones the size of a dragonfly can now be purchased by the general public for just over $100.00.
For a look at what a slightly larger drone is capable of, view this video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jplh7uatr-E&feature=player_embedded#!
The video hints at what could be done with a gun strapped onto a small drone. Suppose instead of a gun, someone like a Klebold or a Lanza were to make an IED (what terrorists use in Iraq and Afghanistan), attach it to a small drone and then fly it by remote control into a populated area like a ball game, crowded street, etc. Certainly the technology is there and apparently drones will be made widely available. It seems a sure thing that before long someone who is mentally unstable would use the drone as a weapon of mass destruction. Given the ease with which IEDs are made by insurgents overseas, certainly the delivery method of using a drone would increase lethality.
By banning assault weapons (which will not eliminate them, there are already tens of thousands out there; the cat is out of the bag), and allowing the mass sale of drones, aren't we simply fighting the last war while sowing the seeds of the next one?
news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/developers-selling-dragonfly-robotic-drone-around-100-230833631.html Small drones the size of a dragonfly can now be purchased by the general public for just over $100.00.
For a look at what a slightly larger drone is capable of, view this video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jplh7uatr-E&feature=player_embedded#!
The video hints at what could be done with a gun strapped onto a small drone. Suppose instead of a gun, someone like a Klebold or a Lanza were to make an IED (what terrorists use in Iraq and Afghanistan), attach it to a small drone and then fly it by remote control into a populated area like a ball game, crowded street, etc. Certainly the technology is there and apparently drones will be made widely available. It seems a sure thing that before long someone who is mentally unstable would use the drone as a weapon of mass destruction. Given the ease with which IEDs are made by insurgents overseas, certainly the delivery method of using a drone would increase lethality.
By banning assault weapons (which will not eliminate them, there are already tens of thousands out there; the cat is out of the bag), and allowing the mass sale of drones, aren't we simply fighting the last war while sowing the seeds of the next one?
