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Originally Posted by Rochard
While I doubt this will pass, eventually it will. The NRA and gun lovers have a choice between doing what is right or having their gun rights extremely limited. The 2nd amendment has always had limitations to it - We have the rights to bare arms, but not the right to a machine gun. They can do the right thing, or face stricter laws.
It's stunning to me people have to be twenty-one to legally drink, but can buy a AR-15 at age eighteen. (At the same time I remember being a eighteen year old Marine expected to kill for my country, yet I couldn't legally drink. Although no one ever carded back then.)
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Honestly, I've always felt that the fact a 18 yo can serve in the military and be tried as an adult but can't drink til 21 is a bit double standard. I don't see 18 year olds being able to buy a AR as the issue.. The issue is guns like those should require serious background checks and be heavily restricted like a full auto is.
The average person, no matter if 18 or 35 should not be able to walk into a store and buy a military rifle. If you can pass background checks and be registered with something like a CCW permit that expires and has to be reissued then that's the way it should be.
Those sort of guns should only be in the hands to citizens who can handle the responsibility after proving they can. They should not be as easily accessible as they are now.