Subject: Re: She Had No Face
So do cars and kitchen knives under your logic, and we're not banning any of them.

As do automatic machine guns and home storage of dynamic, and we are de facto banning them (yes, I know the grandfather regulatory status of machine guns).

Again, the point is that we recognize the degree of danger of the risk of misuse, mistake, and accidents with dangerous items - and we adopt policy responses that take that into account. For things that are extremely dangerous with ordinary use that have minimal utility (fully automatic machine guns), we all-but-prohibit them. For items that are generally not very dangerous in ordinary use that have a lot of utility (kitchen knives) we have a very permissive regulatory regime. For items that are pretty dangerous in ordinary use that have a lot of utility (like cars), we allow them but have an extremely aggressive and stringent regulatory regime.