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Colorado Town Considers Drone-Hunting Licenses
New submitter ciotog writes "The town of Deer Trail, Colorado (population approximately 550) will be voting next month on whether to offer licenses for drone hunting. Furthermore, a bounty of $100 for each drone shot down will be offered (upon offering proof that the drone was potentially owned by the U.S. government). Is this just a fun gimmick, or a serious commentary on an increasingly surveillance based society?"
You're right but not for the reason you think.
Libertarians hate the government until it saves their ass in something like a natural disaster, for example.
So sure there could be a disaster there. They happen everywhere, it's just the nature of the world, and of risk. And since these citizens hate the government so much, maybe we should just let them handle it by themselves.
Now that being said, I'm not sure about domestic drones... for some uses, like, again, fighting forest fires, or land management remote sensing, it could be useful.
But I'm not exactly excited about the US government OR big companies spying on me or you.
I just am getting tired of seeing libertarian drivel on Slashdot. I'm seriously sensing infiltration by the Koch brothers here or something. I mean are you seriously a tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist that honestly believes "they" are 'out to get you'? I'm guessing you think 9/11 was an inside job, too. Lots of theories, so little evidence. Murica!!! F Yea!!!