No booze or cigarettes, but guns are totally cool.
Tobacco use isn’t in the Constitution. Any state can have a drinking age of 18, perfectly legal. They just get their federal highway funds yanked.
So it’s tough to tell someone, “Yeah, it’s a right for other adults, just not you.”
If I had my druthers, I’d raise the national age to 21 when brains are a good bit more developed.
2A even has the term “well regulated” in it.
They only care about the second half.
unless black people are owning guns then they’ll be all for gun control… like when the black panthers armed themselves.
SCOTUS pretty much shit canned the first half on the 2A a long time ago. Can’t remember the case, but they basically said a “well regulated militia” could be anyone.
ETA: as someone else pointed out, the case was DC v Heller.
Heller, 2008.
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Let me guess, you would “well regulate” all militias to be wealthy white people?
I think sometimes about if cars were a thing when the bill of rights was written, they might’ve had an amendment like "travel, being important to a free state, the right to drive an automobile shall not be infringed "
And then we’d have all sorts of problems where like six year olds would be driving , blind people would be driving, you wouldn’t have any safety standards or environmental standards, etc etc etc. And people would be jerking themselves raw about how it’s great , that freedom is great, they love when their car explodes.
And then we’d have all sorts of problems where like six year olds would be driving , blind people would be driving, you wouldn’t have any safety standards or environmental standards, etc etc etc. And people would be jerking themselves raw about how it’s great , that freedom is great, they love when their car explodes.
I have no agenda here. I just thought your comment was comical and then I saw all of these:
6 year olds… 😬
Blind… 😬
Car explodes… 😬
18 for everything. “various levels of adulthood” need to go away. Either you’re an adult or not.
Don’t like it? Prove you actually believe what you say you do and work to raise the draft age to 21.
18 is to young to be considered an adult. I think 21 is more fitting but we don’t mentally mature until late 20s.
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-teen-brain-7-things-to-know
At the same time we’re capable of adult level actions earlier than 18. We regularly have children, kill people, drive, have jobs, have bank accounts, make life altering decisions about sports and school credits… etc.
The argument for lowering the age of majority is far stronger than the argument for raising it.
It is a complicated subject. Medical decisions and voting is something that should be a lower age. However, there is a massive list that should not be pushed on younger people.
My point is adulthood comes for us whether the government wants it to or not. The list of things we do as teenagers that are adulting is far larger than the list of things we are mandated to wait for.
I understand that my point is the government should protect that class of people instead of exploiting. I think we both agree it is not good either way. It’s just another way we are failing younger people.
But what about StATeS RiGhTs???!!
This is good. Now do the same with alcohol. You can be forced to die in a war at 18 but can’t drink and enjoy the full rights of an adult citizen.
Well, pretty sure we’ve got an amendment for that so that’ll take a bit more effort.
Nope, no amendment. Just a mafia style deal you can’t refuse. If a state lowers it’s drinking age they lose federal highway funding.
Come to think of it, I’m surprised one of these radical republican governors hasn’t done it yet.
Ahh, this is that one. Surprised Louisiana hasn’t considering it seems like they always have the worst highway roads.
I immediately thought the same thing, but unfortunately there’s no constitutionally guaranteed right to alcohol.
Yet.
Something something the right to beer arms
Funnily enough, we do have an amendment allowing it, though it does not prohibit state governments from regulating it. All it would take is a simple bill of congress to end the requirement that states set a 21+ law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Edit: oops this was meant to be a reply to the other comment
I think you’re reading a bit too much into that amendment. It doesn’t say anything about individual rights, or the government infringing on them. It simply repeals the 18th and all related laws.
Isn’t there a legitimate medical reason that’s not a thing?
No. Supposedly they raised the age to 21 because of drunk driving teens, though I’m not sure what effect it had. In my opinion, the better option regardless is to introduce teens to how to use alcohol responsibly and safely, rather than prohibit until it’s too late.
It didn’t have an effect, it was never the teenagers doing most of it. When they studied the fall off that happened it turned out that public awareness campaigns were far more effective than bans or punishment.
Don’t you just love how it’s all about states’ rights when it comes to things like abortion, but as soon as it’s gun control, the states’ rights don’t matter.
To be fair, gun rights are an actual constitutional right. I don’t think the democrats ever tried to make an amendment to include abortion rights. For them, the threat of losing it was a good campaign issue.
The idea that control over your own body and medical decisions can’t be sourced in the Constitution is ridiculous. If we don’t have the right to that then we don’t have the right to anything.
Correct. We also don’t have a right to privacy or many other things we all wish we had. A lot of what we rely on is just the court’s interpretation of laws and the constitution. We’ve recently seen how fragile those interpretations can be.
Only Americans can be so retarded to find something like unconstitutional. What a dumb country.
Damn, guess I should’ve chosen to be born somewhere else. Rookie mistake
You probably went and chose the wrong time period to be born in too !
The founding writers of the constitution never imagined people would fit hand cannons in their pants.
They absolutely imagined that.
You sound dumb. No, they 100% imagined it, because they existed and were in mass production while they were alive.
Try walking around with an 18 inch pistol concealed in your pants. https://www.flintlocks.com/pistols.htm#:~:text=Overall Length%3A 18 5%2F8" Max. width of butt%3A,octagon barrel Breech%3A 7%2F8" Small%3A 3%2F4" Muzzle%3A 13%2F16"
because conservatives get sexually aroused over school shootings and kids dying.
From now on, whether or not you are allowed to buy a gun will depend on which groups you check as possible victims for your killing spree.
