Paris already bans drones at night and requires a permit to operate during the day. The fourth sentence in the article states this...
It's far easier to "weaponize" your car and park it by a target. You'll do far more damage and be much less conspicuous than a drone operator who needs to maintain a line of sight to the drone. Yet cars are not banned.
Anything lightweight you would weaponize a drone with is already a monitored substance. The privacy and nuisance concerns associated with drones are far more significant than the threat of weaponized drones, which is really quite ludicrous and impractical.
I think so. This article somewhat shows that there's no real control over the drones and it still takes manual labor to track and identify the owners. Right now there are only a few drones, and it's taking days to get them out. If these were weaponized it would be far too late. That's only with a few of them. All it would take is a small military/ops budget to launch like 50 drones and then there's no chance.
This + the whitehouse drone incident = impending crackdown on drones...
It's far easier to "weaponize" your car and park it by a target. You'll do far more damage and be much less conspicuous than a drone operator who needs to maintain a line of sight to the drone. Yet cars are not banned.
Anything lightweight you would weaponize a drone with is already a monitored substance. The privacy and nuisance concerns associated with drones are far more significant than the threat of weaponized drones, which is really quite ludicrous and impractical.