I agree! From The Verge:
In today's Senate drone hearing, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) got personal, describing a rally held outside her home earlier this year. "I went to the window to peek out, and there was a drone right there looking in. Obviously the drone's pilot was surprised, because the drone wheeled around and crashed," she told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. "What kind of camera was on the drone? What kind of microphone? Could an enterprising person have attached a firearm to it?"
The hearing mostly concerned with the FAA's roadmap for regulating civilian drone use, spurred on by Amazon's recent announcement of a drone delivery program. But Senator Feinstein used her time to specifically speak out specifically against the prospect of private citizens equipping drones with deadly force, potentially opening the door for a new legislative avenue regulating the unmanned crafts. "We should not allow armed drones in the United States, period," the Senator told the committee. "It should be a crime for a private individual to arm a drone."
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Id put my bottom dollar that she made up the story to boot. Those types do this all the time.
[Hillbillies on the subject of California]
Aunt Pearl: You folks oughta move yourselves to a place like... Beverly Hills, Californy.
Jethro: They got swimming pools and movie stars!
Elly May: I hear they got smog.
Daisy Mae 'Granny' Moses: What's a smog?
[pause]
Jethro: I reckon it's a small hog.
I love California geographically, but I do not miss the politics.
Has anyone seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmFEv6BHM0
Haha, TBD! Everyone knows, you never go full retard.
If you dumb it down a bit, using a drone to commit a crime with a firearm is fundamentally no different than using the mechanical linkage, springs, pin and hammer between your finger and the primer of a real bullet. Either way you look at it, there is a machine between the human and the projectile. Why the hell does it matter if it's a flying robot or not? Someone, somewhere, pulled the trigger.
Anybody with intent of using a drone to commit murder isn't doing so under the false impression that they are using some sort of loophole in the law. Therefore, a law specifically prohibiting it won't stop someone who plans on doing it anyway. Just my 2 cents.
Well, senator Feinstein is at it again! She needs a Grammy for her countless acts of Fear Mongering.
Agreed Robert. Anytime the government feels it needs to step in and regulate is unfortunate for us. Ideally we should be regulating ourselves, but we don't live in an ideal world. If passing legislation banning the use of weapons on civilian drones helps to open the doors for broader acceptance of the technology, than so be it. This site is about promoting the "non-militarized" use of drones anyway.
If there is no such thing as "common sense", then why did the past generations of humans seem to figure it out? It won wars, such as the last two World Wars from tyrants. It is called freedom. I should add, there was once upon a time a hand shake was good enough for an agreement, but that isn't true today. I believe trust and common sense is being high jacked from people like Senator Feinstein. For too long people like her have been trying to make us believe nothing is absolute, only relative. They want us to believe everyone has their own version of right and wrong. So, we need the government to tell us we are stupid and have no idea how to apply common sense and to be trust worthy.
What is she trying to do? I guess because many individuals in our society have accepted everything is "relative". Now, congress feels justified to keep writing new laws all day long.
The sad thing about bureaucracy is we miss the opportunity to experience real leadership. Real leadership is "taking the bull by the horns" and cut through the "red tap" so after 2015 we will be able to make some money using drones.
God help us. Oops! I'm sure God shouldn't be in the equation either.
While we are at it, lets make it against the law to put guns on bikes, and little red wagons too. And don't forget frisbee's.
It should be a war crime as well....
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