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Well, I think we pretty much exhausted the discussion of banning lasers. Maybe we could take this topic in another direction. The OP says that this weapon is powerful enough to overcome all currently existing body armor. How does it kill someone through body armor? Maybe it superheats the body...

I think it could be theoretically possible. People can be killed or terribly injured by hot gas, steam, or particles that are released by heat or fire. If someone near you is hit by one of these lasers and a substantial portion of their body is turned into a cloud of superheated steam, that...

Not necessarily. Septic shock is caused by an infection, you wouldn't necessarily get an infection, especially with quick medical treatment. Blood loss would certainly be an issue too, but could also be prevented by rapid treatment. I'm not sure if the stump would be like an overcooked steak, it...

Just about any weapon can clip someone and cause nonlethal wounds. Though if that is too improbable to consider, people could also be blinded by being near something else that is struck by the laser. Of course, people can also be blinded by a bullet or explosion, but blinding lasers are banned...

Yes, in fact, I imagine that a laser weapon capable of killing a human through any known body armor could in fact blind them if it struck them in the eyes. The laser would likely already be considered illegal.

I guess an issue isn’t the just people who die from the laser relatively soon after being hit, but those who survive being hit. We know the possible effects of surviving a rifle bullet to the leg, but what happens when you survive a laser blast to the leg?

I’m not really sure what happens to a human body or object hit by a laser this powerful. Would human flesh explode into a cloud of superheated flesh that horribly burns everybody around? Would objects hit by the laser become so hot that they glow brightly enough to blind people? Is melted body...

It can be weird what gets banned and what doesn’t, but I guess they have to draw the line somewhere. Exploding or flattening bullets are banned, along with certain applications of incendiaries, chemical weapons, non-metallic shrapnel, and even blinding lasers. I could imagine that banning...

I wonder if there would be humanitarian objections to using laser weapons on humans. Of course, we can already blow people up and maim them in various ways, but certain things are prohibited and I could see lasers being considered for that. The wounds that a laser inflicts might be horrific...