The issue isn't really the type of weapon on the bottom line. It's the fact that they are taking weapons away, and if we allow them to take one type of weapon away, they will just view this as an opening to go deeper. And they will. Then we will be shooting at tanks with pop-guns instead of...
It's there so we can best protect us from our own govt, and just because your ******y ass is going to pull your ass cheeks apart, it doesn't mean we all will.
If they do this it is most likely a ploy to try to bait us into hitting them. I mean, logically you wouldn't think so, but those people don't think logically.