On 4/26/2020 10:01 PM, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:

> This is an interesting idea for the game: A blinding laser (works
> against eyes only). Effective if protection is worn. One way to take low
> tech baddies out of action without killing them.

For exactly this reason - temporarily or permanently blinding hundreds,
if not thousands, of people who happen to be looking in your direction
when you (almost effortlessly, if not automatically) sweep the laser
over them - lasers /made/ for blinding are almost certain to be banned
under most rules of warfare.  There are strong indications this will
happen in RL, as soon as someone gets closer to actually making and/or
deploying one.

(Of course, as any student of those knows, that only matters if you get
/caught/.  Willing to take the chance, in one of those dirty little
off-the-books brushfire wars / merc tickets?)

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Kelly St. Clair
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