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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7880258" data-attributes="member: 53980">You are mistaken.Magi-tech solar panels would indeed be a thing per the OP.That's really a worst case scenario. Additionally, by my reading, of the OP, magic can make it harder for a bullet to hit you (the magic can force the bullet slightly off course). It doesn't make you immune, meaning the gunman would almost certainly still die or be captured (how many mass shooters in recent times have gotten away with it).What's the ratio of mass shooters to engineers in the world? I strongly suspect that the numbers heavily favor engineers. By a large margin. Meaning that, simply looking at the odds, it's way more likely that an engineer creates something useful with magic that that some nutjob causes a tragedy with it.Plus, at the end of the day, it would be like banning cars because they can be used for vehicular homicide, or because car bombs exist. The vast majority of people use cars responsibly (or at least semi-responsibly). Banning cars because a rare few will use them for terrible acts is flat out illogical. You might save a few lives. But others will be lost because people with a medical emergency couldn't get to the hospital in time. And the cost in economic terms would be utterly catastrophic, with the many people unable to get to their place of employment. It simply wouldn't make sense.Happy Holidays to you as well!</blockquote>