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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 would pretty much agree with most all of that. And I have argued with my friends in the same manor.
The NRA use to be about gun safety and training along with your second amendment right to have and hold it in protection of your life and property. No more.
They have tried to make it a unconditional right to have and use anywhere and anytime with anything.
That argument I have had with my fellow gun toting friends, that I am one of, is that if you resist common sense rules, you risk the bad things we all know will happen and since we Americans are very knee-jerk reactionary folks, will at some point hit a wall that will be a reversal far worse than they were in fear of in the first place.
Reciprocity of concealed carry sounds good to some of these 'blind believers', but think about the implications that will tie the courts up for decades.
If I live in a state like Ohio, where it is a felony to enter a bar with a firearm, and because of this rule, if you are from a state and received your concealed carry from a state that does not recognize that, it renders that rule meaningless for you but not for me.
Just one of many things I could write a book on for this stupid thinking.
But it is a attempt to render all rules meaningless when it comes to firearms period through the court system.
Heck, I remember all of those that resisted gun registration back in the 70's and 80's.
But those same folks are getting those concealed carry. Which has the same effect of saying 'yes, I'm one of those that have guns'. Very stupid.
They tried to convince me to get mine and I reply...
Why do I need a concealed carry permit to protect myself on my own property.
I have no intention to use them anywhere else unless hunting game for food, not sport.
But they now wear those permits like a badge of honer. Go figure.