It's easier to issue goggles to the pilots. Those goggles exist, and considering the potential consequence, I think they should be issued to the pilots NOW, rather than wait until a plane does crash or some pilots do suffer permanent damage from the laser.
As a pilot, I'd just as soon not spend all my time in the cockpit wearing expensive laser proof goggles on the off chance that some jackass with a laser pointer wants to see how hard it is to do what he keeps hearing about on CNN.