The drone thing is quickly becoming a mess for all concerned; when it takes down a passenger place and they're outlawed, people may understand. It's bad enough when we have to accept that any local or state agency can buy these toys to spy on citizens, under the guise of traffic control operations. Average people should be able to fly them in wide open areas, but not over property where they don't have the owner's permission. We're in a 2nd amendment state, anyone who can legally purchase a firearm is allowed to carry them. If you never have to use one, it serves it's purpose quite well. In unincorporated areas where there are no officials or law enforcement nearby, citizens must depend on each other to cover whatever situations arrive, including dangerous/life-threatening or video spying drones. Law enforcement is usually many miles away, and takes a very long time to arrive. In this and similar states, most rural residents who have drones fly them only over their own property, so the other residents don't deem them a nuisance. Someone who flies them over other's private property, then loiters with camera rolling, say where a family is sunbathing, is likely going to have their drone brought down in pieces without comment.

This very situation has through various local and state courts several times, and gets thrown out in favor of the property owner's rights. One fellow whined his drone wasn't spying on anyone yet his recorded video and length of time the drone hovered proved he was lying. Zoom in on private citizen's anatomies is like up-skirting, only with a remote controlled camera. Folks in the city may not be allowed to discharge firearms because of countless restrictive ordinances written by narrow-minded officials who think they need to control everyone else. There are cities that make provisions to allow the drone toys to fly in outdoor public/drone parks, or in model airplane fields, as long as they follow the rules. One city opened up the old high-school football field, as long as the drones stayed over the field itself and there were no residential complaints. When neighbors took their own videos which proved the spy toys were flying over and spying on adjoining houses, the permission to fly was revoked. Spying is spying, whether it's with a drone toy, Reaper or with high powered night vision gear. Upskirting, is like the peeping Tom. Flying models has long been accepted but when you invade people's privacy and claim it's your right, that's wrong.

None of the local citizens has gone off the loopy end, they don't bother their neighbors and none has had to take one of the toys down. If it happened around here, the locals would support the property owner's rights, not the drone flyer's 'freedoms' while they're spying on and harassing others. A real estate twit arrived one day -uninvited- in another small-town berg, thinking she could get away with flying around at all angles to show off a property that was going up for sale. Several locals immediately admonished her and she quickly took her toy away, never to return; no shots were fired, the incident got people's attention. If citizens willingly wimp out and relinquish what few rights remain, which can be reasonably claimed and supported, there'll come a time when the Bill of Rights is but a dim memory, and that's when you'll be stuck watching reruns of 1984, wondering what went wrong. sv