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This is the future of school safety.
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Our job is if somebody comes in a school
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with a gun, we respond in 5 seconds.
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This is how it would work. Silent alarms
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in the school alert the company. Then
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drones strategically placed on campus
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get deployed. And these drone pilots
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would navigate remotely from their
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headquarters in Austin, working in
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tandem with the school and police,
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inflicting non-lethal damage to the
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suspect or dummy in this demo with
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pepper rounds and direct impact.
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All these markings, that's from the
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drone. Yeah. So, the the little holes
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are from drones and then these different
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marks here, these are from the pepper
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rounds bouncing off the guy's chest.
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All of it an effort to buy time.
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We want to make sure that person is as
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graded as we can in a non-lethal manner
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so that they're unable to continue
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The program is not active in any schools
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yet, but the company says it expects to
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start training programs in four Texas
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schools this year. And Florida Governor
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Ronda Santis just approved state funding
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to bring it to three of their school
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Do you want these drones in your school?
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John Lux, father and principal at this
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charter school in Miami, hopes to have
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As a father, you ask me what am I
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willing to give up in my child's school
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The fear is in the data. Since the
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Coline High School shooting in 1999,
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nearly 400,000 students across the US
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have experienced school gun violence of
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some kind. Former FBI agent Rob Demo
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says this drone program is promising for
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school shooting response, but the root
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of the crisis remains.
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It's still not at the point where you're
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quote stopping school shootings.
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Stopping school shootings is preventing
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the gun to get into the school, which is
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proven problematic. Until then, the
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members of this unlikely team of drone
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pilots plucked from around the country
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When he told me, "Hey, we got this
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opportunity in Texas. It sounds crazy,
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but it may work." I said, "I'm in."
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Ready for a day they hope never comes.
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I'd be happy to put this system in every
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school in America and never use it.
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A radical response for unthinkable
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reality in today's America. Rissa, NBC
