Big Mistake Brookline votes to lower the voting age to 16 (registered, communities)

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by timberline742

It actually is. There is no license needed. A Firearms identification Card is NOT a license.

You may want to call it a license. Sometimes the loony GOAL NRA freaks may refer it as one, but that is not reality.

The state of MA calls it a license. From my earlier link:

"Firearms license class categories
There are different types of licenses based on the type of firearms to be possessed:

License to Carry (LTC): Permits the purchase, possession, transportation, and carrying of all large- and non-large-capacity handguns, rifles, shotguns, and feeding devices, as well as ammunition. This is the only license that allows the carrying of concealed handguns-either loaded or unloaded.
Firearms Identification Card (FID): Permits the purchase, possession, and transportation of non-large-capacity rifles, shotguns, and ammunition."

[timberline742]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

The state of MA calls it a license. From my earlier link:

"Firearms license class categories
There are different types of licenses based on the type of firearms to be possessed:

License to Carry (LTC): Permits the purchase, possession, transportation, and carrying of all large- and non-large-capacity handguns, rifles, shotguns, and feeding devices, as well as ammunition. This is the only license that allows the carrying of concealed handguns-either loaded or unloaded.
Firearms Identification Card (FID): Permits the purchase, possession, and transportation of non-large-capacity rifles, shotguns, and ammunition."

Fine. I'm wrong. They're calling it a license now. It was never referred to or called such when I was 16 and took hunter ed. That's a new definition. And of course, you don't have to be 18 to have one.

[redplum33]

Originally Posted by timberline742

Sigh. Sometimes I think I am just dealing with dumb, then amI realize I am dealing with next level misinformed aka libertarians. Never met a libertarian in grad school for public affairs or public policy. For good reason.

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

The state of MA calls it a license. From my earlier link:

"Firearms license class categories
There are different types of licenses based on the type of firearms to be possessed:

License to Carry (LTC): Permits the purchase, possession, transportation, and carrying of all large- and non-large-capacity handguns, rifles, shotguns, and feeding devices, as well as ammunition. This is the only license that allows the carrying of concealed handguns-either loaded or unloaded.
Firearms Identification Card (FID): Permits the purchase, possession, and transportation of non-large-capacity rifles, shotguns, and ammunition."

Originally Posted by timberline742

Fine. I'm wrong. They're calling it a license now.

It seems an apology is in order.

[ben young]

Originally Posted by redplum33

It seems an apology is in order.

I don't think it will come from someone who never met a Libertarian in grad school for public affairs, or public policy .

[mdovell]

Originally Posted by ben young

I don't think it will come from someone who never met a Libertarian in grad school for public affairs, or public policy .

The problem with libertarians is frankly they tend to replace the authority with well...nothing. If you don't have some 3rd party then there is nothing to prevent one party from pretty much doing anything to another. Otherwise it is like the atheist that joins a secular humanist group that pretty much does everything any organized religion does.

I've met some that are just so way off that they have no idea what they are talking about or that there has to be some form of checks and balances. Purchasing and budgeting should be separate just like judges and police etc. In lieu of a nation state order then goes lower into a local government or a form of tribalism that pretty much resembles a government in at itself.

[whippany5]

Originally Posted by TheGoodTheBadTheUgly

You’re not mature enough to drink, carry a gun or serve in the military but you’re mature enough to vote!

Something isn’t right!

https://brookline.wickedlocal.com/ne...ting-age-to-16

Am I back in New Hampshire again? Something tells me the OP doesn’t live in Brookline..

[robr2]

Originally Posted by whippany5

Am I back in New Hampshire again? Something tells me the OP doesn’t live in Brookline..

I don't believe he his. You'll find him posting on Politics and Controversies ranting on about anything that meet with his more conservative views.

[BostonMike7]

Originally Posted by massnative71

FOLKS. While timberline certainly needs to get his temper under control, he is very much correct. It's all in the cited regulations. Read it.

Yup, he is correct.

[chicagoliz]

It's not going to make much difference - young people don't vote anyway. If you have someone engaged enough to want to vote, even if they're 16, then that's great. I'd rather have a well informed 16 year old vote than an uninformed 40 year old.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by chicagoliz

It's not going to make much difference - young people don't vote anyway. If you have someone engaged enough to want to vote, even if they're 16, then that's great. I'd rather have a well informed 16 year old vote than an uninformed 40 year old.

My sentiments