I feel for the innocent folks that were injured and killed.

Sounds like the "government official" from that last paragraph has been talking to some of the other fool politicans from this country and others that have this pea brain idea that banning objects influence human behavior.

Make bombs illegal and no one will blow people up. Make locking knives illegal and no one will get stabbed. Hmmm... This banning thing ain't working to well is it?