Except Franklin. Franklin thinks models are "toys". Something we should have outgrown by the age of 18, presumably. Something that should be so harmless that no one could possibly be injured by it.

Franklin's approach is exactly like a gun ban advocate: He wants them all, but he'll take what he can get at each step. He will exploit natural divisions within the community to set modelers at odds with "droners", and against each other. First he'll go after the sailplanes and larger models that need higher altitude limitations to operate. Then the faster planes that need wider boundaries. Finally the park fliers and anything homemade. At each step he'll wave the safety flag and quote selectively chosen facts in order to make his approach seem reasonable, hoping that most of us will sacrifice the few in order to protect the many. But at the end of the day he wants them all.

And I don't begrudge him that. He's free to advocate for anything he wants. A man has to feed the family and an O-5's retirement pay doesn't go that far, unless you live in the "middle of nowhere" like some of us do. If he's being paid to advocate certain positions, hey it's a free country. I just wish he'd be honest about the true motivation.