[atomicweeder]

"Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades," the warning said

I am perfectly willing to accept a ban on automatic weapons and grenades.

[Dead Corpse]

I’m not.

[Ancesthntr]

I am perfectly willing to accept a ban on automatic weapons and grenades.

I am not. Rights are immutable, and apply in every place at every point in time. My grandfathers could buy them over the counter with no background check, no tax stamp and no CLEO sign-off. Why am I denied a right that my grandfathers had?

[Durus]

"I am perfectly willing to accept a ban on automatic weapons and grenades".

Are you? I'll accept the actual meaning of the second amendment myself.

[DuncanWaring]

I am perfectly willing to accept a ban on automatic weapons and grenades.

Under our system of government, the government has only the powers derived from the consent of the governed (that may look familiar; I'm not the author). If I am banned from posessing automatic weapons and grenades, then the government cannot derive from me that power.

The principle scales up - it goes for 50-megaton H-bombs too.

[William Tell]

atomicweeder said: "I am perfectly willing to accept a ban on automatic weapons and grenades. "

Why? Do you have any enemies anywhere in the world who will be unable to make use of automatic weapons and grenades against you? Why do you willingly put yourself and your loved ones at a disadvantage?