The secret to enjoying Big Trouble in Little China is realizing that Jack Burton only thinks he’s the hero when really he is the comic relief sidekick to the Asian hero of the story.
Hunting isn’t a sport. It’s a skill. One that was vital to our survival until the industrial age figured out how to mass produce animal slaughter and preperation.
Policies of prohibition do not work. Name one thing that was made illegal that the government was able to stop people from getting. Drugs? Prostitutes? Pornography? Weapons? Nope. The only people who don’t get them are the ones who obey the law. Anyone who really wants something can get it for the right price.
You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
As for places like the UK and Australia, take a good hard look at their per capita violent crime rates.
The AT-AT was inspired by the huge dock cranes in the Oakland port. Lucas looked at them and thought “What if they walked and had big guns on them?”