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Originally Posted by crockett
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.
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I couldn't agree more. No one should have an AR-15.
I love the entire "It's not an assault rifle" debate. LOL. Okay, fine. We are now officially calling it an "assault weapon". It's an assault weapon that happens to be a rifle...
I don't even understand the entire argument. It's not an assault rifle because it doesn't go full auto? One of the first things they taught us at Paris Island is that you never ever EVER use full auto.
It's like taking a brand new Ferrari, putting a eight cylinder Chevy engine in it, and saying it's not a Ferrari. I don't care what engine is in it, and I don't care how fast it goes - it's still a fucking Ferrari.
We are handing out assault weapons to eighteen year old kids only because they want one.