Rancid wrote:I think raising the gun buying age to 21 across the board is a good idea.
I think at the moment, only pistols are 21+, where as rifles, shotguns, etc. are 18+
I'm sort of a 2nd amendment absolutist; however, I think this compromise is fair though not without mixed feelings.
I have a hard time rationalizing the forbidding of an 18 year-old from buying an AR15 when he may be required to fire one at the same age in combat through the activation of conscription via selective service.
If we are going to raise the age to own an AR15 to 21, we should also change the selective-service military age to 21 too.
This will, of course, make 21 the
de facto age of adulthood, which seems appropriate given the infantilization of our recent generations.
Likewise, as a second-amendement absolutist, I would be in favor of the legality of full-automatic weapons to the general public; however, given that this currently against the law, I have no problem banning bump-stocks and whatnot as they are clearly an attempt to violate the law as it currently exists (whether I agree with it or not).
If I were a conservative politician I would make the following compromise with libs:
In exchange for concealed carry state reciprocity we will give (1) an expanded background check system which will include the mentally ill and those on the terrorist watch-list, as well as (2) raising of the minimum sports-rifle ownership age to 21 (like it is with pistols), and (3) institute an absolute federal ban of bump-stocks (which even the NRA supports).
I would also push to create an agency like the TSA to regulate and universalize security in all public schools by Federal funding through the Homeland Security and National Defense budgets.
Everybody gets what they want, gun-owners will not see much difference in their daily lives and gun-prices, and the schools will be invariably safer.
I'm curious what the POFO lefties think though.....my suggestion is probably racist somehow...