I think that the age of 18 being set to purchase a fire arm correlates to the age of legal responsibility. If you are 18 and get a DUI they don't put your parents in jail because you are 18. If at 17 you get a DUI, you loose your license till you are 21. The age of 18 makes legal sense in the age of enlistment into our military as well where they will be trained and issued a fire arm. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
I think that the age of 18 being set to purchase a fire arm correlates to the age of legal responsibility. If you are 18 and get a DUI they don't put your parents in jail because you are 18. If at 17 you get a DUI, you loose your license till you are 21. The age of 18 makes legal sense in the age of enlistment into our military as well where they will be trained and issued a fire arm. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
So you're telling me there aren't any politicians who are against opiate use, heroin, cigarettes and guns that you can vote for? — Benkei
According to this, there were 4,235 drug-related deaths in 2015 for 15-24 year olds. According to the above, there were 4,140 firearm homicides in 2015 for 15-24 year olds.
@ArguingWAristotleTiff, seems like guns are just as much a problem as drugs are. — Michael
Not all in one Presidential candidate no. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
If drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes doesn't "correlate to the age of responsibility" (i.e. 18), in what Kafka-esque world do we live in where owning a gun does? — Maw
I am absolutely sicken that this is a conversation we've been having for years now. It continues to happen, and yet nothing is done, and people callously shrug their shoulders. How the hell are we talking about opiates now, as if these are mutually exclusive issue? — Maw
Hilary Clinton's Democratic Party Leader slipped within the first few seconds of this video. Make no doubt about it, Democrats would like nothing more than "the slippery slope" of gun control to turn into gun confiscation.Hilary Gun control and a plan for the opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic. — Michael
You live in Arizona don't you? Don't you have to be 21 to buy alcohol? Strange that it's higher. — Michael
I am not understanding your question. Yes you have to be 21 to purchase alcohol but if you are caught driving under the influence at any age before 21, you loose your license to drive until you are 21. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Make no doubt about it, Democrats would like nothing more than "the slippery slope" of gun control to turn into gun confiscation. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
In the USA Maw, where the right to own a firearm at age 18 is a protected right until someone proves themselves incapable of possessing that right. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
No it doesn't. Many of the school shootings are suicides, for example. — Thorongil
So they will undercut their own sales? Fat chance. — schopenhauer1
Make no doubt about it, Democrats would like nothing more than "the slippery slope" of gun control to turn into gun confiscation. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
okay so we should just let it happen either way? suicide or murder. it's still a problem — David Solman
But are you saying that it's better to allow domestic abusers and the mentally ill to buy guns that to risk the chance that all guns will be confiscated? — Michael
Name a country where guns are illegal that have this problem. — David Solman
It's so frustrating that people just blame everything else other than the gun. — David Solman
It won't stop all future mass shootings or mass casualty attacks. And again, if stopping those isn't your goal, then you don't really care about solving the problem and are only concerned with winning an ideological war due to a peculiar anti-gun pathology. — Thorongil
What do you mean by "this problem?" Mass shootings? The obvious response is that mass casualty attacks have continued to occur in countries with strict gun control laws. Despite cries of being a red herring, unless you think mass death by firearms is somehow worse than mass death by other means, then in the wake of attacks like the one under discussion here, we should be focused on reducing mass casualty attacks.
Passing stricter gun control laws will only make it harder for nonviolent, law-abiding citizens to acquire firearms.
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