The problem is, essentially, that you can't outlaw being a kid...and for some people, that goes up to their 30's.
I remember being a kid, and so forth, and, well, kids have no sense of consequences...and even when a kid is older, its underdeveloped.
My brother and a friend of his took sling shots (now illegal in NJ), and busted out ~ all the windows of a new 3 story office building facing the woods they were firing from.
It was a lot of expensive windows, and, it was pointless vandalism. He was ~ 12 years old, I was ~ 14.
He and his friend really didn't think of it from the standpoint of the building owner/tenants.
They were just wandering around, saw the building, and were thinking, hey, can you hit it from here? The glass breaks, there's a loud noise, it was fun....so they kept going, until the police arrived and arrested them.
I KNOW how that happens, mentally, but have to go back to being maybe 4 years old or so to fully have a personal example, as a reference for this sort of bone headed obliviousness.
I was 4, I had crayons, I started to draw on my bedroom wall, and, liked it, and kept going...and, my mom walked in, looked at the ~ 10 square feet or so of "art", and THEN I looked at it, and saw what SHE saw, which wasn't art, it was drawing all over the wall...vandalism essentially.
I didn't honestly think about the fact that I was drawing on the wall, so much as that I was simply drawing, on the wall...I didn't REALIZE I was doing something "wrong", and that I regretted, until AFTERWARDS.
So, that's how it works in a nutshell. Kids are morons.
If the moron has access to the internet, he can order whatever is for sale, and, use it in whatever way he wants to.
A GROUP of kids is even more dangerous than one, as they play off of each other, a mob mentality essentially.
They do whatever they think the others would do...so if no one says, hey, this is a bad idea, its game on.
Enforcement will ONLY reduce the aircraft laser strikes by those who have enough of a developed sense of consequence...the less developed are simply jailbait.
This country, and many others, suffer from a retroactive reaction to specifics.
In NYC for example, a man was hit by a car he didn't hear coming, because he was wearing a Sony Walkman. They banned wearing Sony Walkman, but not other brands of portable players/radios with earpieces, etc.
And so forth.
If a kid lasers a plane, they ban lasers, not lasering planes.
If someone shoots up a school with a gun with a carrying handle, they ban guns with carrying handles.
And so forth.
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