We're fucked aren't we?
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Something I think about more often than is probably healthy is just how rare that sort of thing is, and how much of a miracle of civilization the fact that it's rare is. If you didn't give a fuck anymore and just wanted to cause absolute chaos without regard to your life or personal safety it really isn't that hard to do.
Absolutely. Any single individual can very, very easily bring about a shocking amount of destruction with very little effort if they that's what they want to do.
The people who think banning guns to stop school shootings make me laugh. Who the hell needs a gun? They can just plow their car along the sidewalk after the bell rings. They'll probably score a higher kill count, too.
A couple years back I saw this video of a 25 mile waypoint-based drone flight between two Hawaiian islands. Used cellular internet for the command, control, and video linkage, so the drone itself was only limited by its battery range and its ability to receive a cell signal. That's a level of technical sophistication until recently only available to the military.
And that's just a small battery-powered craft. Some of the gas-powered ones are giant, with corresponding increases to range and payload
Reconfigure one of those for nefarious purposes, and you could literally be in another town from where you were executing your mayhem.
I'm genuinely perplexed that we haven't seen a drone terror attack/assassination attempt from a non-state actor yet.
Say someone knows where a politician is going to be delivering a speech. Or where a journalist is going to be stood infront of a camera. Or where <insert high profile target here> walks their dog on sundays.
Forget putting guns or explosive payloads onto these things - what's to stop any random person from flying a remote controlled aircraft with, say, a spear tip for a nose, at 40-50 miles an hour, into that person's chest?
And that's just what you could do with a small, commercially available, minimally modified model aircraft. On top of that, tracking down the perpetrator could potentially be incredibly difficult. One man with a big enough chip on his shoulder could wage a months long string of operations. If some has the will to do this, I think they absolutely could.
What on earth could a government possibly do? Ban the sale of drones? Useless. They're easily built from simple parts that would be impossible to ban.