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whumpster-fire · 11 months ago

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Band Name of the Day: "Sex Demons From Wisconsin"

It's generally true that institutions don't make rules prohibiting things that nobody is doing (i.e., the existence of the prohibition demonstrates the existence of whatever it's prohibiting), but then I think about the moral panic back in the 1980s where people genuinely thought that shitty movies about white dudes dressing up in ninja costumes were teaching children to be ninja assassins, and passed a bunch of laws banning "ninja weapons" for which their only source of knowledge were those selfsame movies, with the result that, to this day, many jurisdictions have laws on the books prohibiting weapons which do not exist, and I reflect that every principle has exceptions.

#shitpost #band names #stupid laws #Wisconsin #this doesn't even get into the bans on stuff that does technically exist #but is not nearly as dangerous as the movies have lead lawmakers to believe #e.g. iirc there's very little correlation between automatic folding knives #(switchblades)#and being used in violent crime #ditto for suppressors on guns bc they dont make it actually stealthy levels of quiet #just 'less likely to damage your hearing'#and make a weapon bigger and harder to conceal #but there were lots of scary movie gangsters and assassins with switchblades and 'silenced' guns #see also the 'criminals sneaking drugs and razor blades into Halloween Candy' panic #although Im not sure if that one resulted in actual laws about that specific phenomenon

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