Tirsales - I hope you find a tutor who will accept your diploma thesis.
Patricia - still keeping my fingers crossed for a positive outcome for you.
As for banning various types of guns/knives, and games such as paintball and laser-tag, ... politicians seem to like going for the "quick win" in the face of public outcry by the "moral majority" (who fellow Brits might know as "outraged of Tunbridge Wells"
).
I was going to write more, but it just gets me wound up.