Rand Paul: Drones Should Be Legal But If They Fly Over My House, "I've Got a Shotgun"

Kentucky Republican and likely presidential candidate gives first-ever Snapchat Q&A with CNN.

The Daily Beast

In what's being billed by CNN as the "first Snapchat interview with a U.S. lawmaker," Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul answered a few questions yesterday via the popular messaging system. (Note to Guinness Book of World Records: I"m pretty sure that Anthony Weiner was probably a beta-tester for Snapchat. Just saying.)

In the most interesting exchange, Paul commented on the recent toy drone that was crashed on the White House grounds by a drunken intelligence agent thus:

"Drones should only be used according to the Constitution. But if they fly over my house, they better be aware because I've got a shotgun," Paul said.

That sounds about right.

Comments

[Monty Crisco]

"I got a shotgun, and here's the plot: TAKIN' DRONES OUT IN A FLURRY OF BUCKSHOT!!!"

[Injun, as in from India]

+ #4 birdshot

[Injun, as in from India]

Oh wait, should it be called droneshot if we're going to shoot down drones instead of birds?

[Libertarian]

How big is droneshot, anyway?

[UnCivilServant]

Are we talking predator or quadcopter?

[Heroic Mulatto]

"Bird" has been a long-standing slang term for aerial intelligence sources, including a spy satellite nicknamed "Big Bird".

[Charles Easterly]

Perhaps we can challenge ourselves to create a term specifically for drone aerial intelligence sources.

"_____ - bird"

What say you, HM?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Well, "bird" is the word.

[Scarecrow Repair]

Turd bird.

Word bird.

Eaves bird, which leaves eaves droppings behind.

[Agammamon]

Shitbird.

[Bam!]

Ron Swanson agrees.

[Rich]

"if they fly over my house, they better be aware because I've got a shotgun"

Hey, Senator, your on-line ett-thrays are being onitored-may.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Divergent was idiotic.

[Rebel Scum]

Seconded.

[Charles Easterly]

Thank you both. I will not rent it.

[gaijin]

So, if a plane flies over his house, should he be allowed to shoot at it with his bazooka?

/2ADerp

[John C. Randolph]

All of the time I've spent playing computer games left me with the impression that a bazooka is not the weapon of choice for an aerial target.

-jcr

[Juice]

Stinger missile.

No! Iron Dome!

[sarcasmic]

You know who else has a shotgun?

[UnCivilServant]

They can't prove I do.

[Charles Easterly]

"They can't prove I do."

That's what you think. When your house was unoccupied by human residents last year, tiny government spy elves were positioned in strategic places throughout.

I hear that Sugarfree and Warty somehow got access to live feeds.

At least, that's what my conspiracy theorist of a neighbor told me as she donned her tin foil bonnet.

[Bam!]

That "Clever Girl" guy from Jurassic Park?

[Slammer]

Elmer Fudd?

[sarcasmic]

Close, but more retarded.

[Charles Easterly]

Vice President Biden?

(Oh how I'm going to regret that)

[sarcasmic]

Shotgun!

[Charles Easterly]

That was a well crafted music video.

I find it quite amusing that the band name is Flying Robots, given the topic that brought us all here.

Nicely done, sarc.

[Rich]

Junior Walker?

[HeteroPatriarch]

Joe Biden?

[Rich]

OK, I hereby claim dibbs on "anti-drone drones". They'll be like guard dogs that fly over your property to attack intruders.

[Charles Easterly]

WWI type dog fights again?

[Rebel Scum]

He learned it from listening to Double-Barrel Joe.

[Nosea]

I think P A U L is a neat acronym

Public Announcement Under Logs

You minght find it in Minecraft's EULA

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[jdgalt]

"PULL!"