US court rules banning gun sales to young adults under 21 unconstitutional
US court rules banning gun sales to young adults under 21 unconstitutional
Conservative New Orleans court ruling for people between 18 and 21 comes amid major shifts in firearm legal landscape
So they lowered the earliest buying age from 21 to 18? You can join the military at 18 (not that I think that's a particularly sane thing either), so this makes a vague amount of sense.
Why are there comments here acting like they removed the age minimum entirely?
I've always thought it stupid that you could join the military and go kill people at 18, but had to be 21 to drink or smoke. The obvious solution would be to make gun ownership and military service require you be 21 though.
Because the title doesn't specify, and most people only read titles.
Tbf, it does specify "young adults under 21" which I take to mean legal adults ages 18, 19, and 20, and the body text specifies as well.
But yeah you're still probably right lol.
I understand that, but it's literally in the preview text of the article (at least in the Jerboa app for android), and more importantly it's stated in the fucking body text of the post.
I didn't read the article either (this time). There's no excuse here.
People get upset about "tone policing" lately, but I can't just stay silent when it's this blatant that people are complaining about something that isn't even true.
Edit: I'm not seeing the comments that were talking about this as if they had removed the age minimum entirely now. Guess they've either been deleted or I blocked those users earlier and don't remember that I did that.
I believe we would live in a much better world if gunpowder and the gun had never been invented.
Would we? That still leaves a lot of weapon types open for business.
Gotta imagine there'd be a lot less mass murders at school if we taught the kiddos to assume the Testudo in response to one crazy with a sword.
Crossbows are just guns that run on springs instead of gunpowder.
You're right. We need to ban sticks and rocks immediately!
I guess you’ve never considered the relationship between increasing deadliness of weaponry and increasing peace then?
Have you ever thought of that? How increasing the power wieldable by an individual reduces the overall amount of coercion?
Are you aware of the relationship between nuclear proliferation and war deaths?
It’s interesting stuff. If you haven’t considered this particular phenomenon you should, because it’s one of the most important evolutions of human society in history.
Killing for peace? That math don't add up to me, and it never will.
Is it unethical if they sell the kids rainbow coloured “fascist-seeking” rounds?
Shocker.
I kinda agree with this, without reading the article yet. I hope there is a clause for "-except with some training certificate"
The age for getting drafted into the military (in America) is 18. Once in the military, you will receive some kind of training on firearms. If for some reason 18yr olds didn't join the military (political or otherwise), but instead wish to get training through their own means, I think being able to purchase a firearm should still be a right. Obviously not military weaponry, but most other stuff, yeah
Yeah, I forgot, when you join the army, they give you a rifle and handgun that you get to keep with you at all times. Not like there's an armory with an officer in charge of doling them out.
"This is my rifle, this is my gun!
This is for fighting, this is for fun!"
-S.K.
If you can’t be trusted with a gun you shouldn’t be in the military. No more of this “you’re an adult only when it’s convenient for us” crap.
I mean… in the military you get training and supervision. Us civies can just walk out the shop with a brand new rifle: no training, few questions asked.
Then provide training?
I shot myself in the arm at age 3 with a pellet gun.
I learned to use a rifle at age 10, with full out safety training.
I learned to fix guns in machine shop at age 17.
As much as I've learned about weapons in my life, I still don't trust 93% of people with access to them.
Yea, my opinions of you need to be X or Y age to do A or B boils down to: "IDC, just pick one got dang number and stick to it"
I mean, there's a difference between trusted with a gun while supervised and trusted to have a gun at your disposal 24/7 without supervision.