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by wnkrshm 3219 days ago
cause

a) you can't see when you're being shot at b) it suffices if there is a sufficiently large (to you invisible) reflection within your field of vision c) you can automatically scan a whole field very quickly, invisibly, silently d) the laser spot gets larger at a distance, so the laser is not a pointer but a shotgun cone with 2m diameter