Laws are created with the intention of protecting individuals and their communities. I find it rather amusing that we live in a country in which Kinder eggs–hollow chocolate eggs with little toys inside–are illegal, but weapons that can injure and kill hundreds of people within minutes are not. How silly are the U.S. laws? See for yourself!

In the United States, it is illegal to...

1. Share your Netflix password (Tennessee)

2. Lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on (North Dakota)

3. Get a fish drunk (Ohio)

4. Go hunting in a cemetery (Oregon)

5. Use elephants to plow cotton fields (North Carolina)

6. Wear slippers after 10 pm (New York)

7. Carry away or collect seaweed at night (New Hampshire)

8. A man to knit during the fishing season (New Jersey)

9. Drive a camel on the highway (Utah)

10. Drive with an uncaged bear (Missouri)

11. Cross state lines with a duck on top of his/her head (Minnesota)

12. Women to cut their own hair without their husband's permission (Michigan)

13. Keep up Christmas decorations after January 14th (Maine)

14. Dye a duckling blue and offer it for sale unless more than six are for sale at once (Kentucky)

15. Give your sweetheart a box of chocolates wearing more than 50 pounds (Idaho)

16. Keep an ice cream cone in your back pocket on Sundays (Georgia)

17. Wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church (Alabama)

18. Mispronounce "Arkansas" (Arkansas)

19. For a mother to give her daughter a perm without a state license (Nebraska)

20. Sleep in a cheese factory (South Dakota)

Apparently, issues such as how long you should have your Christmas decorations up after the holidays are taken more seriously than passing laws about weapons. How many more innocent lives need to be lost before real progress is made on gun restriction? Were the lives lost of 25 people and an unborn child at a small church in Sutherland Springs, Texas not enough? Did you forget about the 27 killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting? What about the lives of the 32 killed at Virgina Tech? Are we simply going to wait for someone to top the death count of the Las Vegas shooting–58 killed, almost 500 injured–or will real change in gun laws start taking shape? I'm tired of the excuses, ones like even discussing gun control after tragic events is "insensitive."

The gun debate conversation comes back after each event and makes headlines, only to be forgotten until the next tragedy occurs. If laws do not exist to protect the people who call that place home, do they really matter, or are they just a joke?