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Nice strawman. Murder or attempted murder requires mens rea. Most people who do this are not trying to kill anyone. They're just being idiots.

I dunno...I doubt this guy thought that shining a laser in a cockpit was the equivalent of assault:

"56-year-old Robert Bruce Jr. was indicted in mid-June for incidents reported on or about April 11 and June 5. He was charged with two counts of interference with flight crew, two counts of aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft, and two counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees." (http://www.wvec.com/my-city/vabeach/18-incidents-of-laser-pointing-at-NAS-Oceana-jets-164398916.html)

They've had many instances over the last few years.

Duh? You mean the navy aircraft fly directly over civilian dwellings during final approach. I think that is the problem here.

Where I come from, there is a wide exclusion zone around air and navy bases. You can grow crop and store stuff, but that's about it. For a couple of years I lived about as close as you can be to an active air force base (one that got a lot of traffic from fighter jets of many origins during combined military exercises) and that never really was much of a nuisance. Nothing more than a distraction, every month or so, for a few seconds, usually when some random pilot would show off resulting in extra noise. And probably getting them scolded.

NAS Oceana (Virginia), for instance. Very close to the beach, final approach right over the beach and hotels. Mix in some beer fueled idiots on a 5th floor hotel balcony...

They've had many instances over the last few years.

The PRT they're talking about here is sometimes confused with systems like the one in West Virginia (that are also commonly seen in airports). Automated (driverless) transportation systems are really fairly different from the self-navigating on-demand system that SkyWeb is working on.

It's now all over online news..

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/12/HNmicrol eak_1.html
http://www.ebcvg.com/news.php?id=1903
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1076628412.html
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3 312451
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/business/79 41292.htm
http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/nationworld/nati onprint/021204cccanatmicrosoft.149f2b31.html
http://www.komotv.com/stories/29778.htm
http://www.cryptonomicon.net/modules.php?name=News &file=article&sid=671
http://www.dvhardware.net/article2423.html
http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/originalConten t/0,289142,sid1_gci950346,00.html

Fact #1: 80% of all militay base property is landscaping and wildlife areas. The other 10% is protected to the level of needed security.

Fact #2: Without having insider knowledge of where on a military installation sensitive material is located you don't have a chance of hell of finding it wandering around - Much less penetrating any real security unimpeded.

Fact #3: Security doen't mean 100% access control. It merely means protecting assets to the degree needed to make it tough for the bad guys.

Terrorists are Arab these days. Thats a fact.
Sure they are.