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To: goldstategop
Young people are not ready to handle certain things.

I think the military draft age was 21 during WWI. Roosevelt dropped to to 18 after Pearl Harbor, and the draft age -- or draft registration age has been 18 since. Instead of raising the draft age to 21, Vietnam lead to lowering the voting age to 18 with the 26th Amendment in 1971.

I'm in favor of raising everything up to age 21, including driver's licenses, and requiring parental consent for military enlistment, marriage and abortions. We Baby Boomers were bad enough. But Generation Z seems to be the worst, yet. If they want to be children and live in mom's basement until they are 30, treat them like children.

25 posted on 02/28/2018 4:15:21 PM PST by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: Sooth2222
"I'm in favor of raising everything up to age 21, including driver's licenses, and requiring parental consent for military enlistment, marriage and abortions."

Add to that list, voting and the legal age of becoming an adult. Everyone under 21 would be considered a minor then, and treated as such under the law. That's the only way it makes legal sense.

57 posted on 02/28/2018 4:42:11 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Sooth2222

Baby boomers are largely to blame for today’s issues, specifically the Christian ones.

It’s not the age that’s the problem, it’s the complete takeover by the left of every institution which my parents and folks like them allowed.


96 posted on 02/28/2018 5:16:12 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Sooth2222
"I'm in favor of raising everything up to age 21,...We Baby Boomers were bad enough. But Generation Z seems to be the worst, yet. If they want to be children and live in mom's basement until they are 30, treat them like children."

I see 18-year-old men coming back from initial training and disagree with you. I also see the potential for training in many after having been trained with many who were in that age range. The Second Amendment applies to everyone who is mentally and physically fit enough to be trained.

THE UNABRIDGED SECOND AMENDMENT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3635192/posts

Is The Second Amendment Worth Dying For?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3633354/posts

Besides, the politicians will continue to fish for ways to confiscate firearms from elderly people, too. They only need to get younger people on board by keeping firearms away from them to suit older folks with _____ envy.

Trump: Background checks will 'never' pass if concealed carry is attached
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3636151/posts

Trump: 'Take the guns first, go through due process second'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3636163/posts


126 posted on 02/28/2018 6:18:42 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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