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'Crackpot' plan to put flying taser drones in US schools put on hold after safety fears

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drones in US schools after mass protests from its ethics board.Axon Enterprise, a taser maker, last week announced its plan for stopping school shootings: remote controlled flying drones armed with non-lethal Taser stun guns.The proposals, which promised to stop mass shootings in 'less than 60 seconds', have been placed on hold indefinitely after mass resignations from the company's ethics board.One ethics board member, Wael Abd-Almageed, announced he and eight colleagues were resigning from the 12-member panel after objecting strongly to the controversial ideas.Axon founder and CEO Rick Smith later said the project would be halted.

He said: "In light of feedback, we are pausing work on this project an refocusing to further engage with key constituencies to fully explore the best path forward." The project was announced following the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, with the company claiming that the drones would "help prevent the next Uvalde, Sandy Hook, or Columbine".Smith originally came up with the idea in a sci-fi graphic novel he wrote in 2019.

When Smith originally announced the plans, he said: "Today, the only viable response to a mass shooter is another person with a gun.

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