Posted on 03/04/2018 9:25:53 AM PST by Trump20162020
The young people who have come forward to call for gun control in the wake of the mass shooting at their high school in Parkland, Fla., are challenging the tiresome stereotype of American kids as indolent narcissists whose brains have been addled by smartphones. They offer an inspiring example of thoughtful, eloquent protest.
Unfortunately, when it comes to electing lawmakers whose decisions about gun control and other issues affect their lives, these high schoolers lack any real power. This needs to change: The federal voting age in the United States should be lowered from 18 to 16.
Skeptics will no doubt raise questions about the competence of 16-year-olds to make informed choices in the voting booth. Aren’t young people notoriously impulsive and hotheaded, their brains not fully developed enough to make good judgments?
Yes and no. When considering the intellectual capacity of teenagers, it is important to distinguish between what psychologists call “cold” and “hot” cognition.
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Let’s see the Slimes change that attitude when people realize that if you make 16 old enough to vote then they would also be old enough to star in porn.
While I have no problem attaching all kinds of conditions to voting the home ownership part is absurd in this day and age.
I have owned several homes but with the potential to have to move for work and the housing market being so over-inflated here I choose to rent rather than likely take a 20-40% hit on a real estate investment made now.
That said, have always worked and pay more income taxes than 98%+ of the population so there have to be better qualifiers.
Agree on the bit about anyone on welfare or any other government funded living arrangement being barred.
Lets go with income.
If you get more back from a tax return then you pay in, you dont get to vote
Look, I’m pretty serious. I would willingly give up my right to vote if only home owning, employed male citizens voted. This country would be better off.
And I like and appreciate women and am at constant war with the bitter divorced guys here who despise women.
But, right now, American women have a serious case of the liberal mindset that appears to clear up as soon as they get a husband, a kid and a house.
Well, of course, it’s all theoretical, isn’t it? Ain’t gonna happen. In fact, illegals are now being encouraged to vote in Chicago.
Don’t forget, they eat tide pods.
I think voting should require a competency test on all who vote.
Man would that hurt the abortion industry! Killing Democrat voters!
Why not lower the age to conception and give the fetuses a voice?
Not only should voting require a competency test, there should be inspections done at nursing homes, etc., to make sure the elderly are not being coerced into voting a certain way by those running these homes.
Must be someone who thought Wild In The Streets was a Utopia.
So...
... restrict firearms ownership to 21 because of responsibilty/maturity/judgement issues but lower the age of voting, i.e., for controlling the most powerful and dangerous apparatus humankind has ever created - the US government, to 16 because...
... well, they’re easily swayed and stampeded to our benefit by leftist cant.
Right...
But, keep the draft age at 18 because their ancesters stormed “over the top” in WWI, their great-great-grandfathers attacked over the beach at Normandy, their great-grandfathers used rifles and machine guns at Chosin, their grandfathers used assault rifles in Khe Sanh, and their fathers crossed the Iraqui berms and the mountains of Afghanistan.
But today’s “smarter” teenagers need coloring books to survive the stress at college?
Of course, and let's allow citizens who've just experienced an extremely rare instance of personal danger and extreme emotions set US policy in any area related to whatever they experienced.
And, as terrible as school shootings are, they have occurred at, what, 30 or 40 schools over 20 years, 30 or 40 out of around 100,000 K-12 schools in the US.
Some measures to increase safety should be adopted, but we also need to keep in mind how incredibly rare such incidents are.
Drinking age, voting age and age to buy/own guns should all be 16. Or maybe 14.
Um, no.
The demoncats are getting desperate
Truly desperate
They can’t get citizens or adults to vote for them
After all, Obungacare says parents have to provide healthcare until then, so they must be too young to be responsible.
My preference is military or public service before voting rights.
Of course the Left wants this. They know they can influence young minds through mass media because they run a lot of it, much the same way Hitler had his youth program.
Nope. If anything, raise the voting age back to 21. These teens today are much more immature than other teens their age a generation or two ago. They in no way have what it takes to be an intelligent voter. It doesn’t take much to be a dummocrap voter; just parrot the latest talking points and pass them on without processing them between your ears, unfiltered. This is how we end up helpless pawns in a helpless and weak nation, by producing thousands of illiterate non-critical thinking high school and college “graduates” instead of maintaining our strength through a thinking populace. No thanks. I have not been impressed in the slightest by what I’ve seen so far of teens in general now and particularly of little brat tools like David Hogg, so well-trained in libtardism he’d put a sea lion at the zoo to shame. Arp, arp, arp, here’s your fish, David!
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