The voting age, drinking age, and draft age should all be the same.
We fought this battle back in the 60’s when 18-year olds were being drafted but were not allowed to vote.
Legislation to give them the vote was found UNCONSTITUTIONAL. It took a Constitutional Amendment to give the vote to 18-year olds.
Democrats know NOTHING of history. Even if it is relatively recent.
The ironically named “Democrats” do anything and everything they can to thwart our election process.
If this happens they’ll put everyone over age 30 into concentration camps and feed us LSD.
The welfare of the country means nothing to the Dems.
So they want to raise the age for legal firearms acquisitions to 21 but lower the age to vote to 16. This does not compute.
But, wait! I thought they said we have to raise the age for buying a rifle to 21, because people younger than that are irresponsible?
Raise the voting age to 21 like alcohol.
Just reading the headlines of FR posts ... everything has gone nuts.. they’ve lost their minds.. and have no idea on anything.
These kids have been brainwashed.....in many areas.
What happened to the gun control protesters, they just kinda all disappeared after their 15 minutes was up.
Demoncrats would have babies in the womb vote but they would rather abort/kill their constituents.
If 16-year-olds are old enough to vote then they are old enough to make porn movies.
Somehow, I don’t think that idea will fly with these hypocrites.
The younger people are, the more likely they find adults to not know what they’re doing. Thus Democrats.
It’s a maturity thing.
If you are not mature enough for the lesser responsibilities of marching to war and drinking then you certainly are not mature enough for the far greater responsibility of voting on who should lead your country.
If there is a question as to trying a 16 year old for a violent crime because of their youth and inexperience, then that same question has to be there allowing them to help determine what that crime and punishment is.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/new-york-age-criminal-responsibility
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3943187&page=1
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/17/how-raise-age-laws-might-reduce-recidivism/400065001/
See a pattern here? Everyone of these is a liberal stronghold for voting needs for the liberal candidates. Try finding a conservative voice on this topic in agreement with the above.
I firmly believe that this whole topic has lost its course. The only people that can absolutely stop a crime from happening is the perpetrator.
And until these “children” are taught that if you do what is wrong, you will be punished, it isn’t going to change. Telling them they will get leniency and not be punished very much and then released with a sponged record like it never happened, is like ringing the dinner bell for Pavlov’s dogs. This is why so many crimes by gangs are accomplished by under age members. The older ones get hard time. The younger ones get a wrist slap.
rwood
The “Common Sense” response to the proper age for to allow the vote is 40, not 16!
AOC comes right to mind!
I would counter-point to poor graduation rates, decreasing competency stats despite more money for pupils than ever, and lower test scores across the board but especially with history and understanding our government and constitution, to raise the voting age to 21.
Rotten idea....the school system is filling young heads full of mush with ultra liberal meaningless trivia..We don’t need children participating in our elections....we have enough scatterbrains as it is.