00:00seconds. All right, now let's bring in former U.S. Secret Service agent and national security
00:04analyst Barry Donatio to discuss. Barry, thank you for being with us today. Pretty impressive
00:09idea here. Can you walk us through exactly how these drones would respond if a teacher hits the
00:16panic button? Thanks for having me on your show, Ike. And yeah, from what I've learned from the
00:22video from the company, great idea. And anything that we can do to stop an active shooter for the
00:29law enforcement to arrive on scene to keep them from shooting children, if you will,
00:34or innocent bystanders, this is exactly what this is designed to do. These things are activated. They
00:40fly to the active shooter. I believe they have a way to detect that. And they can make a choice.
00:48They can literally spray chemical irritant on the active shooter himself, or even ram the active
00:55shooter. It is totally on video, live feed. They are using operators that are former Navy SEALs and
01:03top-tier law enforcement officers like SWAT. This is just what we need. Not talking about the problem
01:10and wishing the problem away is not going to work. You have to have some kind of a deterrent and
01:15some
01:16means of stopping the active shooter and slowing them down until the police get there. I think it's a
01:21great idea. Yeah. So this pepper spray potentially that sprays from these drones, is that enough to
01:29stop someone who is armed? Would it do enough to stop it? Do you think? Because obviously these are
01:35not equipped with firearms, these drones. Right. So they look like they deploy in threes.
01:42So that's three times the amount of chemical irritant there are in one. And, you know, I always say
01:49a chemical irritant is a handicap. And if you're able to get it and deploy it properly, you are
01:54going to slow somebody down. It would be pretty tough to aim a gun if you get a shot of
01:58this stuff
01:59in your face and you can't see or even breathe hardly enough to sustain life because it really does
02:06affect the lungs and your respiration. So I think if they're packing those drones with some serious
02:12chemical irritant, it is deployed correctly, it's going to buy time. And also, let's just say it
02:17doesn't even deploy irritant. That active shooter now has to engage these three drones instead of
02:23shooting children. So anything that we can do to distract and deter an active shooter from shooting
02:29a child, I think is a game winner. Whether we use these from this company or another company,
02:35it doesn't matter. We should be deploying this. This is the modern day technology. It's 2026.
02:41Along with these, I still believe we need even a law enforcement officer, a school resource officer
02:48on every school property, as well as a potential armed security, a good guy with a gun. And why
02:55don't you go ahead and arm the school teachers as well? I'm all for that as well.
02:59Yeah. Yeah. And other inexpensive measures like ballistic film over windows and obviously locking
03:05doors and things like that. Deterrence certainly worked. Let me ask you about the people that
03:10operate these drones. Are they on site or in some kind of network operations center?
03:17It's my understanding that they're in a network operations center, but they can do both. It's my
03:22understanding also that they can actually be on site as well. So I think it would come with
03:28preference of the client itself. We have to remember at the end of the day, it's a private
03:33business and they're going to do this to the dynamics of whatever client needs and the size of
03:39the facility. You know, as we know, this could be used at a college or any high school, and then
03:45that
03:45would change the dynamics. I would like to see something like this, maybe even in Times Square,
03:51where we know nobody's supposed to be shooting anything. And something like these things that are
03:55less than lethal, they can deploy and minimize the risk of innocent people being shot.
04:02Yeah, I think that's a great point, Barry. I mean, you know, we see the application here in the schools,
04:07but how many other law enforcement applications could these be used in? And obviously from a
04:16cost standpoint, quite cost effective as well. So I'm glad to see this new idea out there. The school
04:24shootings are something that nobody wants to see continue to happen. And we've got to keep our
04:30kids safe by whatever means necessary. Barry Donatio, thanks for joining us today. We appreciate your time.
04:38All right, an act of kindness every 100.
