Raising age to buy a rifle would be just another Leftist ruse - boiling the frogs

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  • Jim12

    Let Freedom Ring
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    Jan 30, 2013
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    that's an excellent point, and one i hadn't considered. delay their ability to play in this sport, and something else will grab their attention and that opportunity may be lost. i will say though that i was into hunting and shooting way before age 18, so even though those under 18 or 21 may not be able to acquire firearms themselves, hopefully their parents have and have brought them up hunting and shooting and of course fishing and other outdoor activities.

    The Left has a long history of efforts to shape, mold, and indoctrinate young minds, which can be much easier than ours to control. That's why it has focused on controlling the education system and social services industries.

    Own the youth, and you own the future.

    Higher age restrictions are one way to deny even more of our country's youth the understanding, training, and experience with firearms and the Second Amendment necessary to make educated decisions for themselves.

    They also would give the educational indoctrinators more unopposed time to present their one-sided arguments that guns are evil and the Second Amendment is obsolete.
     

    1841DNG

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    Apr 17, 2016
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    So let me get this straight.

    At 18 you can marry, be tried as an adult in a court of law, smoke, be forced to live on your own, vote, pay taxes, join the military, and more.

    But you can't drink a beer access your constitutional right to bear arms? Either you are an adult or a child. You can't have this both ways based on what is convenient. This is absurd. How can anyone be asked to risk their lives overseas to protect the rights of others while denied them based on age? Either you are responsible enough to have a gun or not.

    Somehow I doubt that when a single mother in a rough area is killed her home after have been denied the right to buy a firearm for self defense that there will be a large vigil on CNN wondering what might have been if she was allowed to defend herself.
     

    A Lil Teapot 89

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    Either we lower the drinking age back to 18, or we raise the age to do all that "adult" stuff to 21. Consistency in the law would be nice, for once.
     

    GOG-MD

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    Aug 23, 2017
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    I don't remember the person quoted or the exact article, but I believe it was a senator. He said "Why should people be able to buy a gun at 18 when they can't even buy a beer?"

    I'd turn that on its head and say the law prohibiting the purchase of alcohol to 21+ is ridiculous. The younger people can learn these things (be it alcohol, firearms, driving, whatever) - within reason of course - the earlier they learn to respect it. This reduces the risk they'll do something stupid later on and keeps them and everyone around them safer.
     

    Jim12

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    Jan 30, 2013
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    We're all children until we're 26, right? The Democrats decided that when they imposed Obamacare on us and arbitrarily dictated that children are children until 26.

    Stephen Paddock was 64 when he committed the LV shooting. Experts haven't concluded that he had disqualifying mental problems, so maybe he was just immature. Since we're arbitrarily talking about raising the age for owning a gun, how about 65? That would have prevented that one, right? :sarcasm:

    We can make up all sorts of silly, one-off rules that serve no purpose other than to eventually make everyone prohibited, for one reason or another.
     

    Jim12

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    We're all children until we're 26, right? The Democrats decided that when they imposed Obamacare on us and arbitrarily dictated that children are children until 26.

    Stephen Paddock was 64 when he committed the LV shooting. Experts haven't concluded that he had disqualifying mental problems, so maybe he was just immature. Since we're arbitrarily talking about raising the age for owning a gun, how about 65? That would have prevented that one, right? :sarcasm:

    We can make up all sorts of silly, one-off rules that serve no purpose other than to eventually make everyone prohibited, for one reason or another.
     

    CrazySanMan

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    Mar 4, 2013
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    There are very few mass shootings committed by people who are under 21. Did they want to raise the age to 21 after the Las Vegas shooting? No.

    Raising the age limit on the AR-15 from 18 to 21 would do depressingly little
    Very few teenagers commit mass shootings with semiautomatic rifles.
    https://www.vox.com/2018/2/27/17042228/age-limit-guns-florida-shooting-ar15

    Since 2009, men under 21 committed two mass shootings with a semiautomatic rifle, according to the gun control group, Everytown for Gun Safety. Only one of the two guns used was purchased legally, meaning only one shooting (where four or more people were shot and killed) would have been prevented.
     

    Jim12

    Let Freedom Ring
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    Jan 30, 2013
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    There are very few mass shootings committed by people who are under 21. Did they want to raise the age to 21 after the Las Vegas shooting? No.

    Raising the age limit on the AR-15 from 18 to 21 would do depressingly little
    Very few teenagers commit mass shootings with semiautomatic rifles.
    https://www.vox.com/2018/2/27/17042228/age-limit-guns-florida-shooting-ar15

    "depressingly little"?

    Does everything in these extremists' world have to cause extreme emotions or psychological conditions?

    We live in a world marked by fake news, feigned outrage, and hyperbolic extremes. Fueled, ignited, and fanned by the Left. Over just about everything.

    Maybe if the writer's reaction is to become depressed over that, maybe s/he needs a mental health check.
     

    CrazySanMan

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    Mar 4, 2013
    11,390
    Colorful Colorado
    "depressingly little"?

    Does everything in these extremists' world have to cause extreme emotions or psychological conditions?

    We live in a world marked by fake news, feigned outrage, and hyperbolic extremes. Fueled, ignited, and fanned by the Left. Over just about everything.

    Maybe if the writer's reaction is to become depressed over that, maybe s/he needs a mental health check.

    Yeah, I don't like the article but that stat, from Everytown no less, proves why raising the age is pure hogwash.
     

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