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At least raise the legal age to buy a gun to 21. If 18 year olds are not responsible enough to drink a beer, how are they responsible enough to have a semi automatic weapon?
"18 year olds?"
You mean EIGHT 18 year-olds out of millions?
You realize that any 18 year old committing a gun crime is EXCEPTIONALLY rare, right?
At least raise the legal age to buy a gun to 21. If 18 year olds are not responsible enough to drink a beer, how are they responsible enough to have a semi automatic weapon?
I would be fine with that...but then make everything equal...no one under 21 can drive, drink, VOTE, enter the military, enter into a marriage, get an abortion, get gender transitioning medical care, enter into a contract (which includes loans, including student loans), and pay taxes either
At least raise the legal age to buy a gun to 21. If 18 year olds are not responsible enough to drink a beer, how are they responsible enough to have a semi automatic weapon?
How are they responsible, period?
If we are not going allow them the privs of being an adult then legally, they should still be juveniles and if in court, tried as such. The gov't should not play with their age status for their convenience.
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Originally Posted by workingclasshero
I would be fine with that...but then make everything equal...no one under 21 can drive, drink, VOTE, enter the military, enter into a marriage, get an abortion, get gender transitioning medical care, enter into a contract (which includes loans, including student loans)
Salvador Ramos (Uvalde, TX) - male, age 18
Payton Gendron (Buffalo, NY) - male, age 18
Patrick Crusius (El Paso, TX) - male, age 21
Nikolas Cruz (Parkland, FL) - male, age 19
Dylan Roof (Charleston, SC) - male, age 19
Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook, NJ) - male, age 20
Eric Harris (Columbine, CO) - male, age 18
Dylan Klebold (Columbine, CO) - male, age 17
Maybe we don't need sweeping gun control laws. We don't need to take guns away from women, or from middle-aged men. There is a very specific cohort here. Why don't we concentrate on keeping guns out of the hands of young men?
Do a bit more research and you'll see most of them were on prescription antidepressants.
Nicolas Cruz, who has appeared in court charged with the murder of 17 people at the Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida walked into a gun store and legally bought it. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/559205...ass-shootings/
You do realize that these are extremely troubled young men? That some of them were in and out of psychiatric care, in trouble with law enforcement…
Lanza was autistic and had severe OCD and anorexia. Harris and and Klebold wrote extremely violent stories involving rape and cannibalism. Roof was schizophrenic and autistic. Most were on various forms of psychiatric drugs.
MOST young American men are going to college, or are working, or both. They like cars and dating and sports and video games.
The question you should be asking is why young men who are extremely troubled sometimes fall through the cracks.
Well, here's one big issue: even if someone wants help, there are extremely long waiting lists now to see a professional.
Mental health issues, particularly with youth, are at an all time high. My niece is a social worker and told me there is a 6-12 month waiting list just to get an appointment with a psychiatrist in my area. It wouldn't surprise me if it's similar nationwide. Additionally, even the best health insurance plans don't always fully cover mental health services.
The common demoninators are mental illness and psychotropic drugs.
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