CNN will just not let this die

It's true that there are nut cases out there who could be prompted to
use a laser on an airliner because they read about it in a newspaper,

There you go.

but taking on the newspaper instead of the criminal isn't the
solution; that is unless you want to have no free press, and allow
someone pointing a laser in a cockpit to blame their action on
something other than their own desire to point it and fire it!

The issue is the people doing these acts aren't exactly mentally mature, and
hearing about people doing this on the news gives them an idea that they
WOULDN'T have had otherwise. The media can certainly control and be
RESPONSIBLE for what they print.

How would you feel if you walked into your kid's room and saw him on the
floor with his arm blown off from building an explosive from plans he saw in
a newspaper? Which party do you believe had the onus of responsibility?

Of course this all started with the government's brilliant issuing of a
bulletin it could happen. Nice self fulfilling prophecy there.
"Terrorist groups overseas have expressed interest in using these devices
against human sight," the bulletin said. "The U.S. intelligence community
has no specific or credible evidence that terrorists intend to use lasers to
target pilots in the homeland."

The day we lose the concept of personal responsibility in the United
States, is the day the trial lawyers win the entire shooting match.

Send the laser people to hell. Just don't make it even easier for them to
become one.