{"id":1503407,"date":"2022-06-04T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T15:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1503407"},"modified":"2022-06-04T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T15:49:36","slug":"tech-boss-says-taser-armed-drones-could-stop-school-shooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tech-boss-says-taser-armed-drones-could-stop-school-shooters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Boss Says Taser-Armed Drones Could Stop School Shooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftech-boss-says-taser-armed-drones-could-stop-school-shooters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1503407&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Armed drones could be the answer to taking out school shooters when police can\u2019t \u2013 or won\u2019t \u2013 act, the boss of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axon.com\/news\/technology\/how-non-lethal-armed-drones-can-help-address-school-shootings\">Arizona-based tech company said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mounting tasers on remote-controlled drones could stop shooters like the 18-year-old loner who killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, claims Rick Smith, founder and CEO of body camera and Taser maker Axon. Uvalde police have been criticized for not going into the school sooner to take out the killer, who was eventually fatally shot by a border patrol agent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need different, better solutions, including ones that leverage technology to protect our schools, teachers and students,\u201d Smith wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axon.com\/news\/technology\/how-non-lethal-armed-drones-can-help-address-school-shootings\">company blogpost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, whose company builds both tasers and drones for the U.S. military and other buyers, said the technology for both has improved to the point of offering a solution.<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-391595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taser-armed drones could stop school shooters with minimal risk to police, says Axon CEO Rick Smith (Axon)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut together, these two technologies may effectively combat mass shootings,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIn brief, non-lethal drones can be installed in schools and other venues and play the same role that sprinklers and other fire suppression tools do for firefighters: Preventing a catastrophic event, or at least mitigating its worst effects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue of how to stop mass shootings has broken down once again over partisan lines, Smith noted. Conservatives believe the answer is arming teachers and hardening schools as targets. Liberals believe the answer is new gun-control measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need different, better solutions, including ones that leverage technology to protect our schools, teachers and students,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone agrees. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2022\/06\/axon-must-not-arm-drones-tasers\">response by the Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>, Matthew Guariglia wrote that giving police armed drones for dire situations will lead to them using the devices for non-lethal situations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArmed drones would mission-creep their way into more every-day policing,\u201d Guariglia wrote. \u201cWe must oppose a process of normalizing the arming of drones and robots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police tasers have killed more than 500 people since 2010, Guariglia wrote, citing a 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/in-depth\/news\/investigations\/2021\/04\/23\/police-use-tasers-ends-hundreds-deaths-like-daunte-wright\/7221153002\/\">USA Today<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice will be more likely to use this kind of force if the entire process feels like a video game\u2014if they can send tens of thousands of volts through a person\u2019s body with the push of a button far removed from that person,\u201d Guariglia wrote. \u201cAnd the person at risk of being tased might not hear the drone\u2019s commands or may be confused by the presence of a floating robot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The failed response by Uvalde police has come under increasing fire as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-timeline-of-events-emerges-from-uvalde-shooting-that-casts-police-chief-in-even-more-negative-light\">emerging timeline<\/a> shows they waited outside the school for over an hour, even as desperate children phoned 911 for help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to establish a perimeter outside the classroom, a little over five minutes after the shooting began, shifted the police response from one in which every officer would try to confront the gunman as fast as possible to one where officers treated the gunman as barricaded and no longer killing,\u201d The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/03\/us\/uvalde-police-response.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cInstead of storming the classroom, a decision was made to deploy a negotiator and to muster a more heavily armed and shielded tactical entry force.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed drones could be the answer to taking out school shooters when police can\u2019t \u2013 or won\u2019t \u2013 act, the boss of an Arizona-based tech company said. Mounting tasers on remote-controlled drones could stop shooters like the 18-year-old loner who killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, claims Rick Smith, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1503410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1503410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}