It's time to start REPEALING gun control restrictions.
Voting is a Constitutional right yet up until 1971 it was limited to 21 years and up.
Raising the age will do nothing to stop a person from getting a gun. It’s not hard to find one if you have the money to buy it. We have 13 and 14 year old kids who drive around in stolen cars while carrying stolen guns. Laws are for the law abiding citizen. They don’t stop the criminal, they only punish him when he is caught and convicted.
For many years, many of the things mentioned in this article were for over 21. And in a number of these cases, even 21 is not old enough. But just because times change, doesn’t mean the problems being corrected do.
I don’t feel a person is an adult, in way too many cases, at 18. Many agree on this site that the education system in this country is dumbing down kids. I agree. So if they are receiving an education when the school systems are not only miss-teaching ABC’s, then why are the public allowing them to set the standard in moral and responsibility instruction? And then saying they are ready for the outside world when most are not.
Signing of contracts, owning a weapon, driving a car, are all things that require a responsible person. And when the schools are driving it into them that they are not responsible for their actions with a weapon, and that the company that built it is, is a perfect example of where our true needed basic education of our kids has failed.
So if you have a child that is not old enough to play with a toy, and could hurt someone along with themselves, don’t you take it away. Someone will always use the philosophy that well they give them guns in the military. Yes they do. And they give them a complete and understandable re-education on what they have, what it can do, and what not to do, period. A lot of it backed by incarceration threats or other incentives to pay attention and learn what will keep you out of trouble and it is your responsibility to follow them. And they back it up.
So, first education, it’s okay to have the toy, second education, you are ultimately responsible for the safety and protection and you will pay for errors. Third education, used correctly it will save you and your unit’s lives to do it right so you better or we will do anything from take your rank, throw you out, or put you in jail. No slap on the wrist from a school VP, or suspension for a day. Or like they do in the Florida county that had the shooting, listen to Obama and not punish problem dangerous kids with a police record that could have kept the legal gun out of lawless Cruz’s hands.
The system has become a gamble. And what do you get? More gun violence, and violence period, more drugs, more child pregnancies, more thieves, more child molestation, and more excuses to blame the wrong people to bail them out.
A lot of people say the old west was violent. It wasn’t. People behaved themselves because the local townspeople just took it into their hands and killed people for not conforming. So people took notice and tried to conform.
And this “old west” theory was still in operation when I was a kid in the 1950’s. I didn’t know it because I was young and it was never talked about. But there were no drunks, druggies, bad men bothering women, and you could leave your house and car unlocked with the keys in the ignition in that town and they were never disturbed.
A bad person was asked to leave town, then assisted to leave town. And if they came back, they just disappeared. Problem solved. Of course we can’t do that now as the system is too protective of people like that. But did you notice the protection of the victim hasn’t changed? Welcome to the land of lack of responsibility and education to get it that way.
rwood