> If the vast majority of the time the roll of duct tape was used in the commission of a crime, it absolutely could and likely would be banned.

This is the same argument they use in the UK to ban things like long knives or realistic airsoft guns. We don’t really do that here in the US. Activists often try, but eventually the laws get struck down.

I'm not entirely familiar with the arguments used by the UK, but in the US neither long knives or realistic airsoft guns are used for wide scale law-breaking. That would probably be the key difference.