The Pros And Cons Of Drone Strikes

They soar overhead collect intel and are capable of destroying a whole city! Drones often fly in the sky and you don't even notice them because they seem like regular airplanes,but they are capable of much more than just flying around.These Unmanned Aerial Vehicles spy on you daily. Drones should be illegal because they kill innocent humans, promote terrorism, and are expensive to maintain.
Since the September 11 attacks, the Pentagon and the C.I.A have launched hundreds of strikes in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya. These have resulted in thousands of civilian casualties. People who see their loved ones injured or killed in drone strikes become motivated to join terrorist groups. According to author Jeremy Scahill, the vast majority of militants operating in Yemen today are people who are aggrieved by attacks on their homes that forced them to go out and fight (Procon.org n pag).
According to a meta-study of drone strikes, between 8 to 17% of all people killed in drone strikes are civilians (Procon.org n pag). The United States began conducting drone strikes after the September 11 attacks, it is estimated that between 174 and 1,047 civilians have been killed in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. In Yemen kids are scared to go to school because of all the drone strikes. The people of Yemen say that their way of life is collapsing.
Drones are expensive to build and upkeep. For example the border drones require an hour of maintenance for every hour they fly and sometimes they can not even take off if it is too windy or there is a little bit of rain.The government spent over 250 million dollars to build the largest fleet of drones (Bennet,Drones).All that money could have gone to building homes for the homeless