Drone Usage in America

Drone use within the United Stated of America has been a very controversial topic of the recent times; therefore, this article is being written to say why drone usage has become so controversial in our country, and all over the world. Many people do not fully and completely understand what a drone is. A drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle fitted with multiple cameras and sensors for measuring and capturing different things and sets of data. In a warzone drones can be equipped with different attachments and weapons, such a automatic guns and missiles, to carry out remote attacks, on insurgents or enemies of our country, without putting human operators of the drones in any danger whatsoever. Vehicles such as these can fly for very extended periods of time, hours or days even, with no human interaction, just collecting data, or intelligence. These highly-advanced machines have no limitations as to how far they can go, other than their very high battery capacity. They are tracked and controlled by GPS, or a global positioning system, signals which blanket the entire planet. The way these are tracked is very precise and accurate. This upsets many American people because they feel as if they can have no privacy anywhere they go, even in their own backyards. I often find myself wondering if I’m being watched, as I wander about my backyard in my underwear, by an eye in the sky. We as citizens of the greatest country on this planet, America, have no clue when or where we’re being watched. We should have a say to where and when these devices can be used within our country.

Another reason we are weary of this new and ever popular growing technology is that we find it hard, or impossible, to trust our government. With all this emerging news about the things the N.S.A. has been doing with our phone calls, internet traffic, and snail mail, can you really trust any part of our government, or anyone at all for that fact? I don’t trust our government, and it’s very