[Rinnwald]

Are the people here who are willing to tie the hands of local law enforcement on the weapons they can use willing to defer to others the decision on what kind of weapon they can use under similar situations?

I truly embrace your argument. If police are allowed to use lethal explosives, so should the general populace.

The fact that they can't is sort of my point.

[P-Marlowe]

Bullets are explosives. They killed 5 cops yesterday. The police bomb only killed one person. I suppose you would have preferred that a couple more cops got killed as long as they used non-military style weapons.