You can get a basic drone for a few hundred dollars, a good one for about a thousand, one that will follow a cellphone (to act as a camera platform) for a little more.
There hasn’t been consistent regulation, and what there has been is relatively easily ignored; they aren’t hard to build from cheap parts, which gets around any “geofencing” restrictions on where they can fly, for example (even without hacking the commercial versions, which isn’t that hard).
They can’t fly especially fast or carry very much weight, but they could be turned into weapons despite that, and even without weapons they can (demonstrably) sow fear and confusion disproportionate to their cost.
You can defend against them, but so far, people haven’t been, particularly, even though drone attacks are a pretty predictable occurrence.
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