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You would be incorrect. It happens frequently and gets prosecuted.


The word "frequently" is doing a lot of heavy-lifting here.


Completely up to what that word means to you.

Just do a search for "charged with shooting at drone".


I had AI do a collation of news events and the general conclusion was

> Civilian shootings at drones occur at a rate likely below 15 incidents per year in the U.S., compared to over one million registered drones.

I'm going to have to conclude that this strains and breaks the bounds of the term 'frequently' and the initial term 'incorrect'.


So more than once a month an idiot is in the news for shooting at a drone.

Depending on where you live, they might even be neighbors of yours.

Something showing up every month is pretty damn frequent, especially when it leaks into national news and always grabs headlines, yet idiots still do it.

I mean if a plane fell out of the sky once a month, is that frequently?

What about if your bank blocked access to your account once a month when you needed it?


Your strained analogy would actually be if any bank blocked one account from all bank accounts once a month.


I guess some of us count life in web requests.


Can you write up a blog post about how many months of the year you are being blocked from banking?


How much "frequent" means to you is entirely what I posted immediately as a response.

I frankly don't give a shit to spend time on this with you anymore.

It's pointless to debate our personal definitions.

Have fun


Don't be pedantic on the internet and then double down and get mad when called out on it. Just argue in good faith and admit when you're wrong.




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