"There's no sense outlawing everything that certain people misuse...you'd end up having to outlaw everything!!! I'm seious. Every fecking thing imaginable would have to be outlawed."

Exactly! And then you have a situation where a few irresponsible people wield inordinate power in society, because, thanks to the misbehaviour of a few, things are banned for everyone in acts of what are basically, collective punishment.