Yeah the thought makes my blood pressure rise as well.. I really hope this does not happen, sorry but I really don't even want to think about it almost.
Hopefully for the time being the President has other ways to distract the public from never ending wars, ballooning national debt, bad economy , rising unemployment etc then fearmongering on laserpointers. Or lets hope so...
Related to Australia, I think the most ridiculous fact about the Australian rules is that they consider it a weapon if it is what over 1mW??
First of all no lasers we have access to are designed as weapons and isn't it a war crime in the category of poisons gasses, biological weapons etc to even use a laser to blind in war? I believe the closest thing of a laser ever used in war besides weapons targeting is the dazer?? which the British used in the Falklands war to dazzle but not permanently blind..
The Australian authorities are making a complete mockery of themselves and are totally unscientific to think that a 2mW laser could ever be used as a weapon. It is obviously not powerful enough to cause permanent harm unless you literally held it up to your eyes for a long time and did not move, and second it is not designed, or ever meant for a weapon. The ridiculousness of this idiocy is out of this world.
Chainsaws are extremely dangerous yet no one considers it a weapon if you own one. So why would the government think they can impose on owners or define the reason of owning a particular item as a weapon if the owner never demonstrated the desire to use a non weapon object as a weapon in any way.
If you point a laser directly at someones eyes, pick up a rock with desire to crack someones head open, grab a tree branch to hit someone, grab a clump of grass to sufficate someone then the purpose is demonstrated to use these items as a weapon but until someone does these things the item is not a weapon!!!
Until you demonstrate the purpose to use hostile intent with any random object it is not a weapon until you do so. Until then it is just a laser pointer, or clump of grass, stick, rock etc!
I could assume that others voting for a particular party or parties is dangerous for my health, so should I consider the ballot paper a weapon then?
What idiocy!
EDIT: Sorry Madmacmo, I think I failed to talk related to your question again somewhat, it's one of those topics that makes me almost dizzy with anger at the absurdity and haphazardness and casual nature of needless additions of legislation that make it hard for me to think straight almost.
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mn you Mac.... watching breakout kings, clicked on your post, and as I skimmed the quote, before reading the rest of the post, or really processing it, my blood pressure shot up a lot 
