And? A far larger proportion of blank discs are used for piracy. Even old floppy discs quite possibly. Do we make those illegal? Also yeah, do we criminalise rollies as well?
Personally, I don't think bongs should be illegal to own, but I don't mind if a government has a line of plausibility of legal use beyond which they criminalize something. If rolling papers and blank DVDs, which odds say are probably primarily used for illegal purposes, are still on the legal side of the line, I don't have a big problem with it. (I'm still just incredulous that anyone with a bong would smoke only something legal in it.)
Relatedly, the NYPD has a custom of, on days of ethnic parades and the like, rounding up gang members at the events based solely on their clothing they use as identifiers. I'm not sure of the exact details, but they tend to be arrested for disturbing the peace, or causing a public disturbance, or something similar, then let go. It's a practice that surely reduces the chance of racially based gang violence, and it could be argued that simply wearing gang insignia to a big event constitutes disturbing the peace since it may intimidate the general public, but it boils down to people being arrested solely for the clothing they're wearing in public, so it's very dubious from a first amendment perspective. Thoughts?
EDIT: I just took a brain-sucking logic-ridden law school exam and I still get sucked in by problems like this. I must be doing
something right.
