Posted on 05/30/2022 11:51:44 AM PDT by XRdsRev
Just a point for discussion.
If a Federal law is passed to raise the age to 21 as a requirement to buy or own a firearm, shouldn’t the age requirement to join the military be raised to 21 also ???
How can we justify asking 18, 19 & 20 year olds to fight and possibly die for our country when we deny them on of the basic rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights ?
It was done in the 70s then eroded over time. 18 yr olds could vote in federal elections, buy beer at the px, and buy long guns. you had to be 21 to buy a pistol. if you were old enough to be drafted, you enjoyed the rights of citizenship. When the draft went away, the laws changed. In Florida in the 70’s I could buy a drink at a bar at age 18. We stopped treating 18,19 and 20 yr olds as adults, and the nanny state surged ahead. Of course the education system stopped teaching life skills, and instead taught them to take out loans to get more education in how to live in a fantasy world.
Most certainly. Can’t be responsible enough to drink then wow can they risk your life. Now along with this comes some difficulties. You will need to go back to conscription at 21 regardless of social status, collage, hardships. Nothing gets you out of the draft. Think you can wash out? Leavenworth for duration of conscription. Should be a six year stint with six additional reserve commitment. Miss more than three of those reserve unit training assemblies without being excused, Leavenworth. Make it painful. No voting until 21 period.
And the abortion thing too.
Only someone who’s never served in the Military would pretend there’s no difference between GI training in the use of and access to weapons, and your average, spoiled or neglected, civilian 18 year old.
21 to drive...
Teens kill more people with cars than with guns...
21 to watch TV...
TV creates an attitude that violence is cool...
The movie “Taking Chance” on Amazon. Every elected official should accompany an escort witness before he votes for war.
I’m not sure about that. I think most teenagers these days learn about firearms from playing Halo.
Because there's a difference between physical fitness for combat and the maturity to take on the responsibilities of adulthood.
I was thinking 30 myself. Remember, never trust anybody under 30.
21 is the federal age for handguns. Federal Long guns? there is no age limit.
Let the states handle it. In Texas, it’s 18 to buy a rifle but no age limit on owning a rifle.
all of it then... vote/drink/smoke/
Boys who graduate from initial training for direct ground combat specialties are much more likely to become trustworthy men.
Why not just take away all constitutional rights until age 50? Yeah, that’s sarcasm. I was enlisted and firing “assault weapons” at age 17. Before I was 21, I was deployed overseas defending the nation against Commies.
If one reaches the age a maturity, typically the age where one can vote and enter contracts, one deserves ALL constitutional liberties, including alcohol, cigarettes, porn, guns or whatever. Not that all that stuff is good, but if 21 year olds have Liberty, so should 18 year olds.
Don’t like it? Raise your kids to be responsible citizens (they will still make mistakes, but that’s how we learn). Perhaps the reason we have so much immaturity is because we coddle nearly everyone these days. Believe me. There are plenty of man children and permanently adolescent women older folks walking around these days.
And should be a property owner!
“How can we justify asking 18, 19 & 20 year olds to fight and possibly die for our country when we deny them on of the basic rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights ?”
We don’t officially “ask” them, except maybe in recruiting campaigns. We don’t make them do so anymore. We sometimes allow them to if they so desire. And we don’t always allow them to if they aren’t fit in a number of ways.
And if they were in the military from the age of 18, maybe the “real life” experience would do them good when they are 21. Not that military life for an 18 year old is in and of itself totally “real life”.
CA tried that. It’s unconstitutional.
Yes, 21 for everything.
Not in Massachusetts.
It’s useless up here to vote against the tide of donkey crap.
Age to vote needs to be higher...unless in the military or PAYING net taxes
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