Not letting law abiding citizens of any age own a weapon is absurd.
If they can legislate age 21, then what’s to keep them from legislating age 25, or 30 or 65. If you are old enough to vote, you are old enough to own firearms. You can do more damage with a vote than you can with a gun.
Hey kid, now that you graduated from Basic training, here’s a M-16 or SAW, now go out there and kill some ISIS radicals. In a year when you come back with your purple heart remember your are under 21, and you just can’t buy yourself a AR 15.
?????????? No?
The author confuses ‘possession’ with ‘purchase.’
I also have an objection on principle. Are 18 year olds adults or not? If we are serious they are adults we should lower the drinking age and not increase the age to buy a gun. How can they be mature enough to vote and take on debt, but not mature enough to drink or have a gun? 18 year olds can join the military and be issued an M-16 and even service heavy weapons like a .50 cal. machine gun, but they aren't mature enough to go off post and buy a gun or have a beer? Makes no sense.
The comments section is particularly brutal to go through on this article at the source, lol.
Why is it that every time State and Federal Employee’s fail to do their job. We the citizens that they work for, and are paid wages by us, make us less safe, and then to rub us raw we lose some of our Liberty that the Constitution gives us?
Yeah.... now college age people are even more of a freebie target.
Try putting age further restrictions on abortion and car licensing and see the outrage. Both kill an enormous amount of people DAILY.
It is most irritating that so much time is devoted in the various government agencies to gun control when they should be spending the same amount of effort improving security in the schools and investigation/reaction procedures in the various law enforcement agencies.
Those deaths were not caused by the gun stores. They were caused by a really crazy kid being ignored by every single government agency in that part of Florida.
The school administration, local police, sheriff’s department and the FBI should all be reorganized from top to bottom.
But this is another case of childish “Not me”.
John Lott wrote this crap?
Either he totally screwed the "sarcasm" aspect of it, or he's lost his mind.
They are NOT well-meaning actions, they are knee-jerk feel-good warm and fuzzy acts of stupid desperation emanating from the looney left...and I'm surprised that John Lott would no say so outright.