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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's guns.[/quote]

Yep.  If these guys were forced to fight their battles via knives and hand-to-hand combat, Nyiah Courtney and Jeremy Black would both be alive right now.  We don’t allow citizens to own RPGs or anti-aircraft guns and everybody is fine with that and no one complains that their second amendment rights are being violated because of it.  So Americans are comfortable with gun control, we’re just drawing the line in the wrong place.[/quote]

Actually, it’s entirely lawful for private citizens to own RPG’s and anti aircraft guns provided they comply with the relevant formalities. [/quote]

I’m not a lawyer, but FWIW…

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2332g[/quote]

That section does not reference an anti aircraft gun. It is applicable to a surface to air missile. [/quote]

This is true.  However my point still stands.  We Americans are willing to place limits here, so we don’t consider the second amendment to be an absolute right to own literally any kind of weapon.  There’s a line somewhere and we’ve drawn it in front of anti-aircraft missiles.  But why there?  Like AR-15s their only function is to kill other humans.  Many AR-15 owners say they need them to defend against government tyranny and that is the essence of the second amendment.  But you could say the same thing about anti-aircraft missiles.  In fact, if you’re worried about government tyranny they’re probably much more useful and valuable than guns.  Yet no one cares that they don’t have access to them.  To me it doesn’t make any sense.[/quote]

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