- . . . and maybe get your way?
- What a way to run a country
With reference to our associate editor’s post yesterday:
DLH writes:
Very well said Gene. However, to many on the left, you are no better than that b**ch (progressives characterization) –, er lady, Dana Loesch.
That’s certainly in your favor!
I think I own a gun but it’s buried somewhere under all the other stuff accumulated over ‘several decades’. I have served in the Army but never did anything of note. Nevertheless, I am renewing my NRA membership, and I do not think that 16, 17 year olds should make national policy. They are free to speak but I’m not inclined to think that their ‘vast’ life experience is an impressive qualifying credential nor should weigh heavily in a serious debate on national security or the best ways to protect our schools.
Many of the left’s really tired gun control ‘proposals’ are really tired, ineffective, and unserious. More, and more restrictive, background checks? Shouldn’t we first insure the procedures already in effect are observed (I won’t detail the various shortcomings in the execution of these ‘already on the books laws’ in this space, but they are many and have proven deadly in the breach).
Higher age limits for gun ownership? I can support age 21…but does that also mean a person under 21 cannot use and be trained in proper use of a gun under responsible adult supervision?
Mental health restrictions? Sure, but who determines and on what basis. If a 75 year old needs help navigating the maze of healthcare costs, provisions, stipulations, alternatives etc, or has problems setting up a wi-fi printer on their laptop, mean they are ill-equipped mentally to own a gun? Should the mental health care “professionals” make those determinations? Those dedicated folk like the American Psychiatric Association which is so politicized it changes its long-standing assessment of ‘transgenderism” as a mental health “disorder” to “gender dysphoria”, which is another way of saying:”they’re perfectly well-adjusted; it’s society that is wrong”
( https://www.glaad.org/blog/apa-removes-gender-identity-disorder-updated-mental-health-guide ).
Perhaps if the APA steps in and declares that there’s a lot of mental health “disorder” goin’ on with those NRA ‘gun nuts’, and thus, nobody should be allowed to own such potentially lethal products! Why… one could fall into the hands of an NRA member. Oh Nooo!
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R Mall chimes in: Regarding age limits for gun ownership . . . if we raise the age to 21 will the new armed forces enlistment minimum age be raised accordingly? After all those inductees can drive tanks! Maybe we should accept moving the age of majority to 21 as it was when I was a yute. These snowflakes seem far more adolescent, no, more childish with their emphasis on “feeling safe”
Look at Johnny Marx’s fawning piece in The Dispatch. They don’t have a clue what Real resistance is.