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Another assault on the Second Amendment. Next they'll be coming for dried peas and spit wads. When straws are outlawed only juvenile delinquents will have straws.

On October 11, 2014 the National Pea Shooting Association (NPSA) presented the first U.S. National Pea Shooting Championship.

"Probably one of the simplest sports available, participants place the pea shooter (similar to a drinking straw) to their lips and blow as hard as they can, aiming to shoot the pea at a chosen target.”

Straw bans seen as tackling a 'gateway plastic'
http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20180801/NEWS/180809988/straw-bans-seen-as-tackling-a-gateway-plastic

You’ve heard about gateway drugs. In the debate over banning disposable straws, there are now “gateway plastics.”
That’s how some environmentalists and government leaders pushing bans on plastic straws describe them, as a way to prompt bigger questions about use, or misuse, of disposable plastics.
They see straws as a problem on their own — they’re consistently among Ocean Conservancy’s top 10 items of beach litter — but their constant presence sticking out of your drink gives them a bigger symbolic value.
“We’ve always known that the plastic straw is a gateway plastic for a broader conversation on single-use plastics,” said Dune Ives, executive director of the Lonely Whale Foundation, which spearheaded a “Strawless in Seattle” campaign and is working in other cities. “It’s not about the straw entirely. It’s about how we  see single-use plastics in our lives.”