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I'll Register My Drone When You Have to Register Your Gun

• MrZongle2 11y ago
  "That's because I live in the United States, a country that will soon have a national registry for toy helicopters, but not for deadly machines used to commit horrifying mass-murder on a near-daily basis." Cars? The things that we must have a license and insurance to use?
  • eip 11y ago
    I think he was talking about soda fountains.
  • hga 11y ago
    In all fairness, there are over 30,000 fatalities per year from car accidents, ~600 from gun accidents, and 0 known for all time fatal US civilian drone accidents. They would have to take down more than a few large jet passenger planes per year to even reach the gun accident rate, although people have very different attitudes towards these categories, if for no other reason than that it's easy to massively reduce your risks to the first two. So I'm sure it's a combination off the FAA, which I'm pretty sure does have the authority to regulate them, fearing a total hands off approach will get them hauled before the Congress without anything to say after a big fatal accident, and the usual desire of bureaucrats to increase their ambit and funding. Because like gun registration, I can't see how this will do any good in preventing disaster. Like gun registration, it wouldn't even in practice make it easier to find culprits, if you expect the overlap of voluntary registrants and irresponsible drone operators to be nearly nil which right now is entirely the way to bet.