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<blockquote data-quote="Whiskey_Clear" data-source="post: 403046" data-attributes="member: 735"><p>[MEDIA=youtube]P89CBU8E6jU[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>Lot of talk about raising the age to purchase firearms. Let’s discuss, I’ll focus on Ga. law but it applies to many states. You can drink at 21, have sex with anyone of any age after 16 (that is also 16 or older), can’t leave home without permission or get kicked out until 18, go to adult jail for violating a criminal offense.</p><p></p><p>What does any of that have to do with buying a rifle at 18? The 2nd amendment. And the draft. At 18 the law allows you to live independently. You are an adult in every way except for alcohol consumption. Drinking booze isn’t a civil right unless you want to argue 1st amendment religious consumption of alcohol.</p><p></p><p>I personally would prefer to see these differences in defined legal age of adulthood. If you can be drafted into a war, I think you should be able to drink beer and buy firearms. Will some bad things result. Yeah, there may be an increase in DUIs etc. </p><p></p><p>But most gun grabbers like to point to Europe as a guide book to follow for gun bans. Europe doesn’t outlaw consumption of alcohol under 21 yoa. And Europe doesn’t have the problems of DUI and alcohol related deaths of persons under 21 that America has. So we should emulate them right?</p><p></p><p>Imo if we want to limit the legal age to purchase firearms to 21 we should raise the draft age to 21 (how likely is another draft anyway?) and we should not recognize adulthood and adult incarceration until 21. (And man oh man the crime rate of juvenile offenders between 17-21 will skyrocket.)</p><p></p><p>There are downsides to every choice but I think the laws should be more consistent regarding age and legal adulthood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whiskey_Clear, post: 403046, member: 735"] [MEDIA=youtube]P89CBU8E6jU[/MEDIA] Lot of talk about raising the age to purchase firearms. Let’s discuss, I’ll focus on Ga. law but it applies to many states. You can drink at 21, have sex with anyone of any age after 16 (that is also 16 or older), can’t leave home without permission or get kicked out until 18, go to adult jail for violating a criminal offense. What does any of that have to do with buying a rifle at 18? The 2nd amendment. And the draft. At 18 the law allows you to live independently. You are an adult in every way except for alcohol consumption. Drinking booze isn’t a civil right unless you want to argue 1st amendment religious consumption of alcohol. I personally would prefer to see these differences in defined legal age of adulthood. If you can be drafted into a war, I think you should be able to drink beer and buy firearms. Will some bad things result. Yeah, there may be an increase in DUIs etc. But most gun grabbers like to point to Europe as a guide book to follow for gun bans. Europe doesn’t outlaw consumption of alcohol under 21 yoa. And Europe doesn’t have the problems of DUI and alcohol related deaths of persons under 21 that America has. So we should emulate them right? Imo if we want to limit the legal age to purchase firearms to 21 we should raise the draft age to 21 (how likely is another draft anyway?) and we should not recognize adulthood and adult incarceration until 21. (And man oh man the crime rate of juvenile offenders between 17-21 will skyrocket.) There are downsides to every choice but I think the laws should be more consistent regarding age and legal adulthood. [/QUOTE]
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