Not what Soros and Bloomberg want - they want Pelosi, soccer moms and idiotic teachers to indoctrinate all the while thinking they will run the country, but Soros and Bloomie have plans for them to run things.....Gee in college years ago I couldn't image not having a long gun to protect myself in my apartment. Lets raise self-sufficient Americans. Not sheep.
This is just the opening salvo from Feinstein. She's trying to see how many MONETARY DONORS she can get for this. Afterwards, more onerous things will be added. But, it's still not going anywhere. Not in this Congress.
If you can't buy a gun until your are 21 because you are too irrational and cannot handle such responsibility...then are we going to charge 20 year old murders as a "juvinal"?
Rights and responsibilities go hand in hand.
21 for rifle comes with being 30 to vote, and only after passing a basic civics test and proof of a job or other non-welfare source of income
I was safely handling firearms at age 12.Well you can join the Military at 18 BUT there you are taught to use a weapon. MOST average 18 year olds are immature kids. It does make sense but it you give them a inch ............................
Not true. Even as a 17 year old Airman Basic, Private - pick one, if you get unhinged you could kill far more than 17 people with an AR or any other weapon you have if you have the will and intention.The military wants young, moldable minds (and strong physiques). The older you get the more questioning you are of authority, and this makes for bad soldiers. And, as far as 18-20 year olds being able to use powerful weapons in the military, it's under strictly controlled conditions. Being in the military is the very antithesis of exercising your freedoms.
There are no guarantees in life. Life is short, and it can be much shorter than most people care to think about. Murders occur in prisons. There is no such thing as Utopia, or Heaven on earth. Life 101.What are you suggesting to keep your child or your grandchild from being a bloody mess on the classroom floor?
Lets assume there is no slippery slope just concerned classmates, parents and grand parents.
IF someone you loved was murdered in a classroom, what do you suggest be done? Put yourself in the shoes of someone who had lost a loved one.
Feinstein is a change agent. And she and her husband have made a lot of money playing her part.I never considered Feinstein to a voice of reason or common sense.
So Nikky buys his gun from a friend in a bar, or waits til he's 21 - or simply legally buys a double barrel 12 with auto ejectors plus a shoulder bag with 100 shells. And does the same thing.I would imagine any law requiring a person to be 21 to purchase an AR would make possession of it by anyone under 21 illegal also.
And when a 21 year old walks into a school and kills another 20, raise it to 25? When a 34 year old kills a dozen or two raise it to?21 for rifle comes with being 30 to vote, and only after passing a basic civics test and proof of a job or other non-welfare source of income
And when a 21 year old walks into a school and kills another 20, raise it to 25? When a 34 year old kills a dozen or two raise it to?
Absurd. It is not the age, it is their mental state. No normal 18 year old commits murder. No normal 15 year old commits murder.
Well, we could examine where age limits actually work.
Lessee,
Drinking is 21; average age for first drink: 16.
Smoking is 21; average age to start: 14
Maybe. I don't like to think of the dehuminization aspect, but I think people essentially having few outside contacts (friends) outside social media and then essentially killing computer games contribute to a detachment from reality. People are social creatures. The trend seems to make them less social and more unisex.Open and shut -- he's going to get the death penalty. But I think he himself would be surprised at any other outcome. These shooters do these things as a form of suicide. In their minds, everyone involved -- the victims and even themselves -- is no longer a "person" but is some kind of cipher in a game. It's the ultimate dehumanization.
"Traditional families" are now a distinct minority. In fact they may be diminishing almost to the point of insignificance. More than 40% of all births in America are now out of wedlock. (More in minority communities.) Then add to that the children of broken families (divorce, absent fathers, etc.) and you can see the magnitude of the problem. You can't legislate effectively based on a long-outmoded social standard.In most traditional families it is up to the parents to decide whether or not a child is mature enough to keep and bear arms.