Another step over the Edge?

Doh! Why didn't I think of this?

Click and Kill

First Bambi...then some Malvo type won't even have to drive around looking for targets and Marines won't actually have to storm future Falluja's. Nothing that a camera, a laser, a weapon and a wireless internet connection can't fix. Who needs a military draft when all you have to do is sign up armies of internet savvy teens who harbor a sense of racial and religious bloodlust and let'um rip with the mouse.

Set up internet cams and automatically controlled hunting rifles in "trouble spots" like warzones, inner cities, liberal coffee shops, etc. and I GUARANTEE people will flock to "play."

Far-fetched?

Mark my words, we are sick fuck's and only getting sicker, this would excite the murdering heart of many. Would it even be a crime? With a few lines of code and a the ability to encrypt, the "shooter" would be protected by an inpenetrable veil of binary gibberish, so the question really is, would it be a "prosecutable" crime?

Okay, maybe this sort of technology won't find its way into the consumer market - at least not by this Christmas - but I can't think of any reason why we haven't already applied the idea militarily and covertly. Just set up a control room in some undisclosed and protected location - maybe Saudi Arabia or Qatar - and let "professionals" do the dirty work. It makes perfect sense to me. We already have drone aircraft patrolling combat zones, we employ laser guided missle systems, and a thousand other sneaky ways to kill people, so why not set up "virtual sniper posts" all over a town like Falluja and allow some steely bastard who might be thousands of miles away, with a cold feel for the mouse, sit in front of a bank of monitors, plugged into some Wu-Tang Clan on the iPod, and surgically take out insurgents with a click of the mouse?

We are probably doing this shit already and if we aren't I'd be very surprised if we didn't employ the technology within the very near future.

Food for thought.