Summary
President Barack Obama’s administration estimated that between 64 and 116 civilians have died during the years 2009-2015 from U.S. drone strikes outside of Iraq and Afghanistan. Human rights groups, however, were unsatisfied by the government’s disclosed figures, which came in far lower than independent estimates of civilian causalities. Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project said “The American public can’t be confident that the government is using lethal force legally and wisely with a disclosure that’s so limited as to be virtually meaningless.”
My opinion
My image of drones was flying over sky at a disaster site with a camera. But after reading this news, my image of them has been changed. I didn’t know that drones are used for killing people so much. I think drones should be regulated because there are too much ways to use for wrong purposes, such as military attack, terrorism and breach of privacy.
Many people come up with more bad use than good use of them. Drones should be used for only life-saving. Drones also have ethical problem. Military personnel who controls them will do the attacks like a FPS game, and lost humanity finally. American government should not be taken this problem lightly.