Dangers of allowing advanced technology in immature worlds

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I don't think so. It is so easy to blind people with powerful lasers. Airsoft guns can blind as well but airsoft bullets don't accidentally reflect off surfaces into people's eyes.

Years ago I purchased a ridiculously powerful CO2 powered gun that fires metal slugs that penetrate 1cm of wood (used responsibly and safely for target practice). It would not only blind an eye, but destroy it entirely.

CO2 weapons and lasers do offer different risks of course; it's more likely someone would mess around with a laser in public than a handgun.