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In the USA...
an 18 year old can legally buy an AR 15 assault rifle (like was used in last night's Denver area massacre) but a 20 year can not legally buy a beer.
Oh, come on - this is not a difficult question to answer. My best guess would be that one lobby has paid off more politicians than the other.
An AR15 is NOT an assault rifle. It's simply a semi-auto rifle made to LOOK like a military assault rifle. There should be mental health screenings for all the idiots posting about things they know nothing about.
"Assault rifle" is just liberal speak so that they can demonize firearms and the law abiding citizens who own them.
An AR15 is NOT an assault rifle. It's simply a semi-auto rifle made to LOOK like a military assault rifle. There should be mental health screenings for all the idiots posting about things they know nothing about.
Perhaps if we gun owners were a little less quick to criticize and instead politely educate people on the differences, this misconception wouldn't exist. Easier to catch flies with honey and all that.
Perhaps if we gun owners were a little less quick to criticize and instead politely educate people on the differences, this misconception wouldn't exist. Easier to catch flies with honey and all that.
Perhaps posters making false statements should do a little research BEFORE making idiotic statement!
In the USA...
an 18 year old can legally buy an AR 15 assault rifle (like was used in last night's Denver area massacre) but a 20 year can not legally buy a beer.
Ok...I'll explain:
Once you buy your AR-15 rifle (it's not an assault rifle btw...those are banned in the USA) you can have all the beer you can drink anywhere you want.
We prefer our 18 year old gun owners not to be armed and drunk.
So every person over the age 21 is drunk? Every gun owner over the age 21 is drunk? Every person who drinks is a drunk? Every gun owner is armed at all times, even when they are drinking?
In the USA...
an 18 year old can legally buy an AR 15 assault rifle (like was used in last night's Denver area massacre) but a 20 year can not legally buy a beer.
No one should have to own an assault weapon. If you're a good shot with a pistol or a civilian rifle, you'll get the same protection without spewing bullets everywhere killing innocents all over the block (can you say South Side of Chicago??). That said, the AR 15 is not technically an assault rifle, as many have already stated.
I'd say that the OP brings up a good question. I would say the "actual point" is how can age not matter in the subject of gun possession, but it does in the subject of alcohol consumption OR how is it that you can own a weapon as such at a younger age than you can drink? I am not trying to take up for them either, but your reply was the one without point and came off as an attempt to make it seem like the OP had no point.
As Ed and others have posted, the AR 15 technically is not an assault rifle, in spite of what uneducated rubes in the MSM might say.
But that said, it does not make sense. I remember reading comments by Detlef Shrempf, who came over to the US to play basketball for the University of Washington from Germany. He was surprised when he went to a 7-11 to buy a beer and was told that he wasn't old enough. In Germany he had been able to buy beer from age 16/
In spite of drinking before he was 21, he went on to become a great athlete and have a very good NBA career, and after retiring from the NBA has been very active in charitable ventures, raising megabucks for northwest charities.
The way I see it, at 16 you are an adult. You might not be a responsible adult, but you are an adult. I know lots of 50-yr-olds who should not be allowed to buy a beer, enter into a contract, buy a gun, etc.
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