Rand Paul Won’t Interfere With People Shooting Down Airplanes With Lasers

[meegbear]

Since the dawn of American civilization, man has directed his laser pointer at airplane cockpits in order to blind the pilots and make the thing crash to the ground, for teh lulz. Unfortunately, the Senate yesterday passed a bill making this sort of thing illegal, by a vote of 96-1. Any guesses as to the brave legislator who stood against big government and for the founders explicit intent to let people shoot lasers as they please? Yes, Rand Paul. "There are a lot of states that already have laws, and I think the states ought to take care of it," he decided. Yes, this is definitely a state issue. Airplanes are very careful to stay within the borders of the small handful of states that take part in this fanciful sky-based form of transportation.

On Wednesday, the senator said during his maiden floor speech that he did not wish to be known as the "great compromiser," a description reserved for legendary Kentucky lawmaker Sen. Henry Clay. Rather he compared his fight against government overreach to the campaign by antebellum abolitionists.

Go forth and kill people in airplanes with your PowerPoint swords, citizens! Free at last! Free at last!

http://wonkette.com/437085/rand-paul-wont-interfere-with-people-shooting-laser-pointers-at-airplane-cockpits

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. meh

:boring:

[Kennah]

2. Poor people are crazy, Senators are eccentric

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. You have a gift for commedy

Go forth and kill people in airplanes with your PowerPoint swords, citizens! Free at last! Free at last!

LOLZ

[jwirr]

4. Must be just US cits who can do that though. Or is he condoning

9/11? Mankind has targeted each other in many ways and that was just one of them. He is an idiot. Freedom comes with responsibility and law. Too bad.

[spanone]

5. he's a rebel....an idiotic rebel

[DeSwiss]

6. K&R

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Canuckistanian]

7. Those planes MIGHT be carrying socialists

You can't be too careful or too destructive these days.