18 yr old can buy an AR 15 rifle, 20 yr old can't buy a beer (government, states)

[Savoir Faire]

Originally Posted by Katiana

IMO, people who make ridiculous comparisons to the drinking age and the age for doing just about everything else have a drinking problem.

People who want the freedom to get a beer have drinking problems?

Saudia Arabia is calling

[TrapperJohn]

Originally Posted by Savoir Faire

Actually, things do happen to someone when they turn a certain age.

The brain is physically different for an adult than an adolescent. The question is why do some people consider a 18 year old mature enough to buy and handle a gun, but not mature enough to handle a glass of wine.

Not one person has been able to provide one good explanation.

Because almost every one at 18, barring a few crazies, understands the value of human life.

[Ed from California]

Originally Posted by Chava61

Why does the average person in the year 2012 even need to own a gun (yet alone buy one)? The gun laws are in general outdated and not connected to reality.

See my earlier comments about the anti-gun mentality.

[Ed from California]

Originally Posted by gmagoo

"They don`t want to be educated"...nor do they want to be gunned down at the theater,mall,school,etc. Get it?

Childish emotional comment as I stated comes from leftwing anti-gun people.

[Savoir Faire]

Originally Posted by TrapperJohn

Because almost every one at 18, barring a few crazies, understands the value of human life.

So gangbangers, common street thugs, mobsters, are all crazy and few in numbers?????

[gmagoo]

Originally Posted by Ed from California

Childish emotional comment as I stated comes from leftwing anti-gun people.

Nothing childish about not wanting to be gunned down in one of our many public random shootings. Are you bullet proof Ed?

[TrapperJohn]

Originally Posted by Savoir Faire

So gangbangers, common street thugs, mobsters, are all crazy and few in numbers?????

Very small percentage of the population.

[16trillionandcounting]

Originally Posted by git45

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.

the whole point of the 2nd amendment is to allow the citizens to protect themselves from the government.

Do people even have a friggen clue how the United States was created? Without guns it never could of happened and we would be a british colony........

[16trillionandcounting]

Originally Posted by TrapperJohn

Because almost every one at 18, barring a few crazies, understands the value of human life.

Our own presidents don't value human life, yet you expect the average citizen to value it?

[16trillionandcounting]

Originally Posted by Chava61

Why does the average person in the year 2012 even need to own a gun (yet alone buy one)? The gun laws are in general outdated and not connected to reality.

to protect themselves, are you truly this dense?