Look, I'm not pro-clown, but the goals of the current movement just aren't based on reality. If we regulate clown production, what's to stop the companies from just making them in China? Or from skirting the letter of the law by making more mimes, stand-up comedians, or streamers instead? I am of course sympathetic to the people affected by this, but I'm afraid this is just one of those things where the root of the problem is capitalism, and fighting the symptoms is just a waste of political energy.