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I'll bite. Lazing a pilot endangers a lot more than one person's sight. It's not even close to being equivalent with someone doing it to one person who's not flying a plane.

I really don't want a regulatory eye turned towards lasers, at least during a media cycle. Determined assholes will just take apart their BDR players. It'll stop most kids I guess, but I think more media coverage could lead to more behaviour like this.

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I think it should be assault. Yes its more serious when doing it to someone operating a vehicle, doubly so for aircraft, but that doesn't make it ok to do it to randoms.

I dont particularly think we need new laws though, intentionally hurting someone is already illegal. The mechanism shouldn't matter.

Of course these are all illegal assault, and an assault with high potential of permanent damage is itself very serious, but an assault on a surgeon in the middle of a critical operation is both an assault and one attempted murder, for a pilot considerably more..

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