Not only that they are an accident waiting to happen.
Here is the scenario I fear the most:
Imagine a police force and maybe a single person on the force with access to drone controls who needs to eliminate a witness to their misdeeds as an officer. Now imagine this officer using a sniper device mounted on a drone. A single shot through the head or heart from a drone and the witness is dead. The officer then erases the memory of this event from the memory of the computers onboard and any backups and when the drone lands back at it's base he cleans the sniper weapon. At this point there is no way really to tie the drone to the murder. It is all too easy.
It is much less likely that anyone would choose to send a Hellfire missile into anyone or anything here domestically because that would draw just too much attention to any incident. But imagine a sniper shot at an angle so it wouldn't necessarily look like it came straight down. After all a sniper round often is good at over 1mile in accuracy, especially if a computer is doing the shooting. So, even if it took 5 shots as the computer onboard slowly zeroed in, or whether it was an AR-15 with a machine gun burst of dum dums which take out a patch of flesh about 4 inches in diameter, the deed would be done and relatively untraceable if done properly. How could anyone prove something like this? Ever.
This is only one potential scenario that makes drones scary to all civilians in the U.S. or civilians in any country for that matter.
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