Exclusive: Axon still wants to put Taser drones in your kid’s school

This week, Axon, the company that developed the Taser, is hosting a conference in Las Vegas called TaserCon. The event is billed as an opportunity to talk about law enforcement and public safety. Axon is expected to use the occasion to reintroduce a controversial plan: putting stun gun-equipped drones in schools to prevent mass shootings.

Last summer, Axon’s founder and CEO Rick Smith announced the school initiative shortly after mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. “We …

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