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Originally Posted by Harb
Unfortunately what just about everyone here is missing is making them illegal won't do a thing.
Its near impossible to catch them now, so that wont change.
The people that point these things at planes don't give a rats about laws, so the only people this will inconvenience is the legit users, such as us.
I think it would be better to have a simple license system such as any other prohibited device and then just apply the full force of the law to the law breakers if they ever get caught.
Laser grades should all be available to those that want to have one.
I have many items here that are capable of mass murder. in fact I drive one of them every day, yet I don't run people down in the street.....
I can see like the gun issue, the only people that will have high power lasers are the people that point them at planes.......I bet now that it is illegal, there will be more attacks than ever before, the challenge that makes these idiots blood pump has been set.
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point taken about the car also being a weapon, but Iemma and his cronies seem to believe a 10 year old kid with a cheap $30 green laser pointer is somehow capable of bringing down a passenger airplane and killing hundreds of passengers and people on the ground, whereas with a car you can only kill or injure a few people, not hundreds!
until the law makers get that crap out of their head this won't go away, and it also helps explain why these laws were drawn up so quickly, apart from the increasing incidents of laser flashings but thats more a 'monkey see monkey do' issue. I strongly believe that if the media did not report the first 'laser attack' the next incident would have probably been long off, considering these are just kids looking for instant attention and gratification so they can brag to their friends.
The other aspect is the idea or pre-conceived notion of the definition of a laser to the average person, I don't know if someone already said this but the average person off the street probably thinks a laser is a weapon of death as seen in movies like star wars and james bond, like a wrist watch thats capable of cutting through 2 inch thick steel like butter, so when you ask someone who is spoon fed sensational crap off the idiot box(tv) they will agree with the official line