caketastydelish
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Not the Nintendo kind, obviously. The real thing. While nunchucks are not exactly instruments of peace, it seems silly they are illegal when machine guns aren’t.
Why are guns legal in America but nunchucks aren’t in most states?
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GoodSarmatian
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Have you ever heard of the National Nunchuck Association ?
Bugfatty300
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- Virtually nobody owns and uses nunchucks.
- Nobody complains when busybodies make ordinances against them.
- And thus nobody bothers to make a legal path for people who actually want to own nunchucks and use nunchucks.
- Therefore nunchucks are totally verboten whereas guns are just kind of restricted.
- This is also true in Europe; it's not really an American thing.
- Rinse and repeat with lots of other stuff (alcohol vs weed) and you get some really paradoxical laws.
This is actually a really good point. The 2nd Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear arms and nunchucks certainly fall under the category of "arms". Thus, any law that outright bans their possession, manufacture, or sale should be unconstitutional just as any gun ban would be.
Narz
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Same reason alcohol is legal but weed & psychedelics aren't. Corporate interest combined with general stupidity.
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Seems silly if you compare the lethality, sure. But the main argument for having access to guns as far as I can tell is so you're able to defend property, and to defend against the government, should it ever become an oppressive entity. I don't see nunchucks doing either of these tasks with a high success rate.
Of course one could say that, because there is this high-lethality weapon available, any less lethal weapon should also be available as well, but I think that argument only works on a surface-level and doesn't really make sense. By legalizing things just because they're "less lethal" than what is already available, you just create more potential murder weapons without the utility that makes, at least in the eyes of those who argue for the right to bear arms, up for the downsides of having such lethal weapons be available legally.
Leifmk
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They're mostly good for accidentally whacking yourself in the back of the head, or other sensitive bits of anatomy.
(I speak as someone who has actually once upon a time taken a real-life nunchuck class by a qualified instructor, and I still own a set somewhere.)
(I speak as someone who has actually once upon a time taken a real-life nunchuck class by a qualified instructor, and I still own a set somewhere.)
GoodSarmatian
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Can you opely carry a sword in public the USA ?
I'd really like to walk around with a sword. Not for protection but just because I'm a nerd.
I'd really like to walk around with a sword. Not for protection but just because I'm a nerd.
Leifmk
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Going to wear a fedora and trenchcoat as well?
GoodSarmatian
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Not that kind of nerd.
I'll need to wait a few weeks until my har is long enough for a ponytail again.
The primary feature of nunchucks is that someone who is not trained with them is more likely to hurt themselves than someone else, so I would say they are a good home defence weapon. Guns (as I understand it) are more likely to be used to kill the home owner than an intruder, but with nunchucks the odds that someone else will be able to use them is low, so is much more likely to be used for defence. I have never seen the reason these are banned at all.
Broken_Erika
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Are Golpher-chucks legal?
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I don't see how one follows from the other. The main reason I think they're not that useful for home defense are the lack of range and the fact that you have to expose yourself to potential weapons that do have the range required to kill you. You might be able to rush towards a burglar and knock them down if you have the element of surprise on your side, but the moment there is more than one intruder, stuff becomes very dangerous. I would not classify any melee weapon as "good for home defense".
Not that I'm necessarily in favor of banning nunchucks, but I don't think the fact that guns are not banned automatically leads to "therefor, <this less lethal weapon should be legal, too>".
Traitorfish
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Those are the bad guys from Netflix's Daredevil, right?
In the hands of someone who knows what they are doing with them, they can be quite a devastating weapon. I wouldn't hesitate to use them on a home intruder.
Berzerker
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I had a standoff with a guy armed with nunchucks, I had a baseball bat. He stood 20-30 ft away from me doing some fancy maneuvers until the chain or whatever linking the clubs broke and he was left standing there with half a nunchuck as the other half flew off into the street. I just laughed... He got in his car so I got in mine in case he was gonna ram me but he drove off at hi speed and I did too. The cops caught up with me down the freeway. I told them what happened and my story was confirmed by witnesses at the station. They let me go... 
Archbob
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Have you seen what Bruce Lee can do with them?
