Old Enough

One can buy cigarettes at 18 years of age in most states. You can buy beer in some at age 18. You can join the military at age 18 and with parental permission at age 17. You can vote at age 18. But, now the current liberal movement is to make one wait until 21 to buy a rifle. Explain to me how that is going to change anything.

It is so obvious that some people don’t have a clue about guns. Civilians have guns for protection, hunting and sport. It was the liberal media that dubbed AR15s as "assault rifles." They are not. The military has assault rifles, but now civilians. The AR is a sport rifle, and it is fun to shoot. They are used for hunting, but mostly they are used for shooting targets and bragging about how good you are. It’s kinda like a golf score.

I have owned my own guns since I was about 14 years old. No, I didn’t buy them, they were presents because I like to shoot. I gave up golf to take up shooting at the pistol range. It’s basically the same frustration, trying to be good and not being very good. But, at least it’s indoors out of the heat, cold or rain.

People, especially boys, start learning about guns at an early age. Safety and responsibility are the key to sport shooting and hunting. And, under normal conditions, when boys become 18, they want to pick out their own gun. If they have been properly coached and trained, there is no reason not to allow them, provided they can pass a background check.

The people that shoot up schools and churches and other places, shouldn’t be allowed to buy a gun at any age, and there are ways to determine if they should not. But that doesn’t fit radical politics.

Radical politics is when one person does something horrific, but millions of others are punished.

PMO
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