As you plainly stated, there are many uses for these lasers outside of the whimsical fancies propagated by Wicked Lasers, however they are not marketing the product for those purposes. You are welcome to explore those uses on your own and I'm sure you will. However everyone is not a photonics student and therefore not everyone has the expertise required to develop functioning holography units or really do much more than light a match.

And your rant may have some strange basis, but you honestly sound like some religious zealot intent upon killing the infidels who dare stray from your strange perverted ideal.

By the by, you had your facts a little mixed up there, WL doesn't sell a 15 mW laser for 300, it would be a 95 mW which is considerably more powerful, and a little more cost effective than your earlier statements.

And as entertaining as it is to refute the ill conceived, biased, and pretentious arguments of an individual who took 33 years longer than everyone else to get to college. I have better things to be doing.
Have a wonderful day, and perhaps next time you will consider more even-handed arguments, or work on your rhetoric (if, as I am sure you are, unsure of the true meaning of rhetoric, I suggest you break out that wonderful tool called a dictionary and educate yourself).

Here are the links from the past mentions:
http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDMWorkshops/RD...
http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDMWorkshops/RD...
http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDMWorkshops/RD...

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Sincerely,
RainyDayInters
http://www.rainydaymagazine.com
“We Entertain When It Rains”
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Here are the links from the past mentions:
http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDMWorkshops/RD...
http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDMWorkshops/RD...
http://www.rainydaymagazine.com/RDMWorkshops/RD...

Click on the image for a larger version. Definitely let us know when you have other items you think would be of interest to our readers.

Sincerely,
RainyDayInters
http://www.rainydaymagazine.com
“We Entertain When It Rains”
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Of course almost anything can be dangerous in the hands of an idiot. For instance, a car. An idiot might just plow into a huge group of people. He could kill and hurt a huge bunch of people. But we shouldn’t ban cars for that because the practical value of a car is significant, as opposed to a high power laser.

Most, if not all people, who get high power lasers are laser enthusiasts. They know what these lasers can do, they know how they work, and are for the most part, responsible. There are always going to be idiots, but they are actually not a big concern. First of all, most malicious idiots don’t even know about high power lasers. Second, they wouldn’t use a high power laser simply because such items are too expensive. It’s much cheaper to resort to other tactics. Third, blinding people at a long distance is actually quite difficult with these lasers. Try holding a laser pointer dot still on a reflective sign 10 feet away. Then try 50. Then 100. If you’re lucky, you will be able to maintain steady aim at 100 feet. I can be fairly sure it will be nearly impossible to maintain aim at a mile’s distance.

The burning power of a IIIb laser significantly declines as distance increases. There is a reason why no videos exist of people burning stuff dozens of feet away with IIIb lasers. Also, I am yet to year of a case of a madman going amok blinding people and causing mayhem with a powerful laser pointer. I have heard of a couple people pointing weaker lasers at police and their helicopters, but come on, if you’re doing that, the idiocy in that act alone makes you worthy of being shot at. Nevertheless, such incidents are relatively rare.

Class IIIb laser light show projectors require a license. However, very little is said about other class IIIb lasers. Class IIIb lasers cannot be marketed as laser “pointers” in the US, and they must come with 5 safety features, such as a key switch and emission delay. As far as I know, you are allowed to posses a class IIIb handheld laser, so long as you are responsible with it. That probably means not pointing it outside, though I guess if you were even-minded and responsible, you could point it outside without any problems.

http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/radhealth/products/internetlasers.html
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/radhealth/products/lpm.html

People can responsibily use class IIIb lasers. People can use them irresponsibly as well. However, I do not think the actions of the few warrant banning the possesions of such items.