No kidding... Brian Kilmeade is handwringing this morning over the Florida legislature’s resistance to passing a bill outlawing gun sales to people under 21, as if he doesn’t understand why anyone would object.
I don’t think “armed militia” means any able bodied citizen over 21. If it did what’s o stop some idiot lawmakers in the future claiming the militia is only those people between 60 and 65?
Not to mention when I graduated from high school I was 17 and going to college meant driving every weekday through what was then the murder capital of the US a the time, at least two of those days a week having to drive in the dark due to a night class. As a young girl alone in an old truck never knowing when it could break down, having a gun was a great comfort, and more than that it was a necessity that made the trip possible.
I’m trying to figure out how at 18, Uncle Sam thought I was mature to be handed an M16-A2 and taught how to kill at 300 yards, but I wouldn’t have been mature to go buy my own AR.
The Militia act of 1792, as ammended 1862, is all able bodied males from 18 to 54.