"I don't know what it does. I don't know how it would be controlled. I don't know how to keep kids away from it," he (Stayton Mayor Henry Porter) said. "I guess it's the fear of things we don't understand." Effective leaderships carefully try out something new to get a better understanding.

Banning something because the official doesn't understand it would kill many innovations, because knowledge of any officials is infinitely small to all human knowledge.