Going with the assumption the dumbest/worse thing will happen:
Cops shoot down an airliner, are granted qualified immunity after proving they were afraid it was a Communist Chinese Iranian drone coming right for them (it was flying away). It soon becomes accepted a certain number of flights will be shot down as the “cost of freedom”. A new airline life insurance “industry” pops up selling shoot down insurance at the gate. Swathes of the country are de-facto no-fly zones enforced by various county sheriffs with patriot batteries.
Americans sigh and buy plane tickets anyway. After all, freedom isn’t free
USian civil war when?
Going with the assumption the dumbest/worse thing will happen:
Cops shoot down an airliner, are granted qualified immunity after proving they were afraid it was a Communist Chinese Iranian drone coming right for them (it was flying away). It soon becomes accepted a certain number of flights will be shot down as the “cost of freedom”. A new airline life insurance “industry” pops up selling shoot down insurance at the gate. Swathes of the country are de-facto no-fly zones enforced by various county sheriffs with patriot batteries.
Americans sigh and buy plane tickets anyway. After all, freedom isn’t free
not soon enough
Death to America