Whereas I'm with Jason. I find the effect the important thing, not the weapon.
I grabbed the Fresno Bee at the airport on my way out of town on Saturday and reading it in the plane was astounded to find out at that there were *two* stories about fatal police shootings in this town of 500,000 people, both of which were in the last couple of weeks. Were they bad guys? I don't know, but these cases weren't even on the national news. We have cops killing people every day all over America. What is troubling in America is the wanton killing. We have become so accustomed to people being shot it no longer seems shocking, but when the cops lob a pound of C4 it suddenly is.
From the perspective of the recipient and his family, he's just as dead. I guess it's just a matter of perspective, but I still can't see the difference.
Now, if it were an autonomous robot they used that got shown a picture of the bad guy and was let loose on it's own to do the killing I would see a major difference, but all that's changed here as near as I can tell is killing someone at a distance with a weapon that requires line of site versus killing someone at a distance with a weapon that uses a camera to see around the corner.
But I think we just simply see this differently. Agree or disagree, I like to at least see others' point of view, but here there's some gap that I just can't bridge...