joy ride, extend your logic across the thousands of products that can be dangerous in the wrong hands and nothing would be available.
For a free society to work there has to be access to the public at large to most items which have a legitimate safe use in the public or private domain, but may be put to more nefarious uses, so the penalties for misuse must be severe, whatever the cost of implementing the punishment. People have to learn responsibility for their actions so those of us who have common sense and discretion can get on with our legitimate pursuits without interference from the nanny state.