I don't want to get shot at any more!, So I'm going to ask dumpshock if my idea will work. Options

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Ok, here's my idea. I just want to know if it would work, and preferably how to make it work well:
My group has been doing some fights against gangs lately, and my face has had enough of getting stabbed and shot at. I have decent combat skills, with 4 ranks in firearms group and 2 in the close combat group. Unfortunately, this skill with weapons does not extend to gunnery, so taking up a hobby as a conventional rigger is probably not going to work very well.

My idea is to take a manikin drone, armour it up, then hot-sim into it and have it act as my field stand-in, carrying an assault rifle and using my automatics skill and using my gymnastics skill to do fancy maneuvers.
Here's what I need to know:
1) Would this even work?
2) If I remember correctly most of my actions would use the drone's response as the relevant attribute. is this right?
3) what other skills would i need to pick up to make this drone-sam work?