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Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings
www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jul/28/school-shootings-pepper-spray-drones
the GuardianSeveral US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootingsCompany supplying drones said Ukraine-war inspired effort, where technique was effective in face of Russian attack
Anything but regulate guns, making mental health ressources more accessible or punish bullying.
This normalizes policing by machines, controlled by faceless people who will be shielded against consequences just like cops are shielded now. Drones don’t have a face, a name or an personell number. If something happens (and it will), you can’t even point your finger on the guilty party anymore. It also shields those controllers from any social backlash they would get if they would hurt someone in person.
Replying to @Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
Schools are the obvious places to test/enact these types of changes too.
Kids don’t know to speak out against remote policing via robotics, and normalising it now gets them used to it’s wider use in society later.
It’s much easier to raise a generation under a new set of standards, than it is to make an existing generation accept a new normal.