Thursday, June 23, 2016

Remote Weaponry Would Have Cut the Mass Killings Short

   Remote weaponry, placed in the ceilings, but directed from afar, might be a partial solution to mass murders. We already have surveillance cameras in many buildings. Make them accessible at police headquarters, and let police use them to directed remote weaponry planted in the ceilings of public buildings. Officers would have response guns on site immediately, as soon as the call came in, and could fire back without personally being there.
   No longer would officers have to hold off entering for fear of their own lives, as happened in Orlando.
  Surveillance cameras are already abundant in our world. We would transmit their images to officers at police headquarters. The cameras would allow the officers to see the crime as it happened, and direct the semi-automated weaponry from afar. Officers would select the target -- the active shooter -- and the direct the gun to zero in on it and fire. An officer possibly could be firing within seconds of receiving the call.
   Had such systems been in place, every mass shooting that has taken place in a public building would have been cut short. Though the shooters would have taken out some, perhaps they would all have been stopped quicker. Many lives would have been saved.

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