Well, gee, I don’t know, can you explain the need for a 500+ horsepower engine on a sports car capable of traveling in speeds in excess of 200 mph.? After all, the speed limit is only 70.
Do you realize how many people are killed each year by people traveling on our highways at excessive speed?
~ I think it is high time we outlaw these “assault vehicles”. After all, who really needs more than 4 cylinders? Anyone owning one of these assault vehicles capable of traveling at more than the maximum allowable speed and having more than the minimum amount of cylinders to accomplish that task must be some sort of psychotic lunatic up to no good!
Get a clue! It’s not about need. If you find pleasure in flinging projectiles over a fairly large distance with a fairly high degree of accuracy, as long as you aren’t hurting anyone in the process I don’t think it is anybodies damned business what “gear” you use in the pursuit of that recreational activity. OTOH, if one misuses that “gear” to cause harm then it becomes everyone’s business, but that doesn’t make it OK to infringe on the rights of the vast majority of individuals who use similar “gear” in their recreational activities without harming anyone in the process. It does, however, make it OK (in fact sensible) to punish the one who committed such an egregious crime to the full extent that the law allows.