Green Security Clearance Laser Pistol Available

nazgul000 writes "You thought those green laser pointers sold by ThinkGeek and others were pretty cool, didn't you? Well, think again." It seems obligatory to point out that even laser pointers, and certainly anything more powerful than those, are capable of causing real damage.

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Silly non-USAnian...

[thegnu]

[facetious]
You mean SOCCER. Ha ha. How cute.
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Re:Now here's a real laser -

[saintp]

Someone didn't RTFA:

This is not a modified laser pointer, or any kind of scam like you may have seen on eBay.

Sheesh. Dumbass.

Re:Blindness sucks as a weapon?

[itwerx]

Hm. Not many cases of people trying to intentionally blind people with marshmallows. Or rocks. Or pebbles...A weapon that does nothing but cause blindness is a terror weapon.

OMG, you are an idiot! (Or a clever troll of course :).
My point is that anything can be a weapon. Similarly most weapons can be very useful tools. E.g. lasers can cut many other things besides eyeballs.
Now I'm going to leave you with that one very specific and relevant example since you're obviously completely incapable of understanding irony, sarcasm, or probably a host of other linguistic nuances. (And I hate feeding trolls, even clever ones! :).

(Egads... Some days I really wonder how the world got to be so screwed up and other days I have no doubt!
Hey...! That'd make a great sig! Off I go to change it! :)

Re:way different lasers

[danila]

Well, you don't have the right to do everything on your job. For example, if you are an animal handler in the circus, you don't have the right to run away when your tiger or bear goes wild if that animal may harm the public. You must (sometimes legally obliged) to risk your life trying to protect other people. When you are a resquer, you don't have the right to stay in a safe place when the disaster is looming. You must risk your life trying to save other people that you never met before. If a resquer concerned about his own safety takes his helicopter to fly away from the area hit by a disaster instead of trying to find the victims and help them, he should be sued, fired, jailed, fined, etc.

Same with the cop. The cop has no right to protect his safety (life) by any means necessary. It is his job to risk his life. For most practical purposes the society considers a life of a cop less valuable than a life of a civilian (except when a criminal murders a cop). That particular cop who killed a kid for a stupid joke betrayed our trust. He should be jailed for that and he should never again serve in the police.