More than a dozen school bus drivers clapped and shouted when they heard the news. In the past three weeks, seven said they were hurt. The students aim the pointers at the mirrors the drivers use to watch their passengers. Drivers say the laser light bounces back into their eyes, temporarily blinding them. Any parent who buys their child a laser pointer is an idiot.
Laser pointers serve no useful purpose for children.
If a child looks directly into the beam of a laser pointer, or if the pointer is directly pointed into the eyes at close range, permanent damage can result. They certainly have no business being in the back pocket of a child who doesn't understand how dangerous that laser pointer might be. I wonder if the medical community, or the government, is compiling statistics about corneal damage suffered as a result of these devices. You can't sell a BB gun to a child under a certain age. It is time to apply that same reasoning to the sale of these pointers.