The switchblade was banned after the movie Concrete Jungle came out and nunchaku after Enter the Dragon. Movies are the primary resource for politicians knowledge
Devils advocate: Movies, and now games, are also the primary way that previously obscure weapons become popularized with the kind of people who misuse them.
It's not a new thing. The book The Jungle in around 1906 was the reason the FDA was created. Industrial food production was still relatively new so most people who read the book believed that most packaged food had dead rats and human fingers cooked into it
The switchblade was banned after the movie Concrete Jungle came out and nunchaku after Enter the Dragon. Movies are the primary resource for politicians knowledge
Don't forget teflon coated bullets after a lethal weapon movie showed them "going through anything".
Or the ultimate weapon: "the shoulder thing that goes up". Nobody should wield such power.
Devils advocate: Movies, and now games, are also the primary way that previously obscure weapons become popularized with the kind of people who misuse them.
It's not a new thing. The book The Jungle in around 1906 was the reason the FDA was created. Industrial food production was still relatively new so most people who read the book believed that most packaged food had dead rats and human fingers cooked into it