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To: TalonDJ

The way kids are today (and their behavior proves them still “kids”, not adults), perhaps we should move it BACK to 21. (Let’s recall it WAS higher, please - funny, in days when men behaved like men at the age of 15.)

After all, if you’re all for “rights”, then you should not object to there being no age limit on voting. Why not go all the way? Any child that can and wants to vote should be allowed to.

Good point about the security. Then let’s add security at the entrances to their campi. Most do have campus police, though.

And as so many are wont to ignore, please note I do think other adults working on campus should be allowed. I know, probably not good enough, but then, why is just security personnel at defense plants and so on good enough?


1,601 posted on 04/16/2007 12:36:59 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
The way kids are today (and their behavior proves them still “kids”, not adults), perhaps we should move (the voting age) BACK to 21. (Let’s recall it WAS higher, please - funny, in days when men behaved like men at the age of 15.)

Maybe you should stop getting your impression of 19-year-olds from the mainstream media.

I know plenty who are responsible, mature adults. I'm sure there are also plenty who aren't, but there's no shortage of irresponsible 40-year-olds, but no lover of freedom would suggest that we start taking away their rights.

We need fewer restrictions on liberty, not more.

1,624 posted on 04/16/2007 12:44:28 PM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
"...perhaps we should move it BACK to 21."

Good luck with that.

The Democrats would like it lowered to age 16...even 12.

1,639 posted on 04/16/2007 12:47:45 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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