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People have been shining lasers at commercial aircraft though, which is super-duper illegal, and while the sorts of weird libertarians(seriously, what is it with libertarians being such normal boring business savvy centrists recently? Bring back the schizoposting bigamist with YouTube videos on how to drill 1/8” holes with equipment convertible to a grow lab) who just blatantly violate regs like that are rare in urban blue states, there should be at least some in the largest metro area in the country.
Liking smaller government and being concerned about massive domestic surveillance operations should be considered normie Republican positions. Yet somehow that's not how the DC Republican establishment view them.
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I'm pretty sure airplanes at EWR (Newark) get lasered on a regular basis; occasionally they bust someone for doing it, but I think they usually prefer to keep it quiet to avoid copycats. It's much more a problem at takeoff and landing, when the plane is close and you can hit the windshield. There probably are people pointing handheld lasers at the "drones", but pointing a laser essentially at the bottom of an airliner 10,000+ feet up doesn't do a thing even if you aim perfectly. Wouldn't be surprised if they are hitting the occasional private pilot.
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