In the USA it is illegal to possess or use brass knuckles. I used (and still do) believe that the reason is because the constitution said that you could bear "ARMS" not "knuckles". They must think its OK to blow people's heads off but not to gore their guts.
A childhood belief about criminals

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Knuckles (from Sonic the Hedgehog) was an enchilada.Anon
- I used to believe that when people got shot in the head that their heads would blow up. — Emily
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- I used to believe that the reason ladies had big bouffant hairdos was that their heads were shaped that way.— Bea
- I used to think that Legal and Illegal meant the same thing (illegal)— Dhruv
- I used to believe that heads of state had diferent kinds of heads on their shoulders— stupid elado