Because those aren't as trendy right now. This is similar to banning nunchucks and throwing stars in the 80's (yes, that was a thing).

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AngryData 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

My state still has a ban on butterfly knives. As if doing some highly practiced hand flip move makes it more deadly than flipping out any other knife with a far more solid connection.

	▲	lazide 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Getting mugged by a show-off is clearly much worse for my ego, I’ll have you know.

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mjmas 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> was a thing

Still a thing in Australia.

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_carbyau_ 3 days ago | parent [-]

I never understood banning nunchucks. They kind of ban themselves.

If you've ever been a kid copying TMNT Michelangelo with home made nunchucks you've almost certainly smacked yourself in the face.

Y'know what's martially better than two sticks with a string between them? A single big stick.

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bluGill 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

The reason is slaves needed a stick for rice - putting a chain between two stick sill works fine for rice work - but makes it a much worse weapon.

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thaumasiotes 2 days ago | parent [-]

That reasoning makes no sense. There was no significant production of rice by slaves.

But also, threshing flails were used outside of rice-growing regions.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Battage_...

Considering that they must be hundreds of times more expensive than long sticks with no hinge, I would say the reason must be that they're better at threshing.

	▲	bluGill 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Slaves was probably the wrong term, my understanding is more like oppressed farmers as opposed to slaves? In the end though, I'm not an expert. I'm repeating what people who seem to be experts have told me and it makes sense - but I can't judge who is an expert. (either you random hacker news commenter, or whatever other "expert"). I'll gladly stand corrected if anyone can show they really are an expert.

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alterom 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>I never understood banning nunchucks. They kind of ban themselves.

I mean, that's a solid reason to ban them :-)

In countries where healthcare is socialized at least. As a cost-saving measure.

They're melee equivalents of footguns.

>If you've ever been a kid copying TMNT Michelangelo with home made nunchucks you've almost certainly smacked yourself in the face.

I've seen qualified users train with metal nunchucks as a kid in the early 90s.

Even then I thought, if I had those, I'd knock my own brains out so fast ಠ , _ ಠ

>Y'know what's martially better than two sticks with a string between them? A single big stick.

Also an order of magnitude safer for the user.

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lazide 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Cuz ninja, of course.