A TECHNOLOGY company that manufactures weapons has put forward a proposal for a “taser drone” for combatting school shooters.
The CEO of Axon Enterprise went against the company’s ethics board when he publicized the controversial idea.
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The taser drone is a remotely operated, non-lethal technology that Axon claims could disable a shooter in 60 seconds.
Axon CEO Rick Smith said “We need new and better solutions. For this reason, we have elected to publicly engage communities and stakeholders, and develop a remotely operated, non-lethal drone system,” in a statement.
Smith proposed “the Three Laws of First Responder Robotics” which focused on live camera feeds, VR training and the use of non-lethal force against shooters.
Axon’s ethics board disavowed the taser drone concept, but Smith pushed forward in response to the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde.
“Given these tragic mass shootings, Axon has asked the board to re-engage and consider issuing further guidance and feedback on this capability,” Smith wrote.
NBC News reported that the entire ethics board could resign over the taser drone and the Smith’s rejection of the board’s advice.
Futurism noted that the tug-of-war with the ethics board is, in general, a good thing – it would be worse if the ethics board were letting everything fly.
Smith co-founded Axon Enterprise in 1993 and the company went public in 2001.
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Axon tasers have created controversy in the past.
A man in police custody was tased and the charge ignited sanitizer on the man’s body – he later died.
The United States is still in widespread mourning over the tragedy in Uvalde – in the weeks since there have been 20 more mass shootings.
The nation is desperate for a solution, but Axon Enterprise’s taser drone has not impressed people within the company, never mind society at large.
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