Again, a blanket statement. Please tell me the difference between an immature 18 yo adult and a mature 16 yo? So, if a parent left a 16 yo home alone one night, that 16 yo shouldn't be allowed to protect himself?
The government should have no business in raising our children.
Well...we have science that has discovered that the brain doesn't develop the capacity to deal with risks rationally until adulthood. and while some might develop slower than others, that is no reason to allow children unsupervised access to a loaded firearm. It's just a reason not to allow the slow developer unsupervised access to a loaded firearm as well.
, but children are not property of their parents.
Once again, the fact that individuals develop at different rates is no reason to ignore that the great majority of individuals develop at similar rates. We don't let the exceptions emasculate the rule.
"The government" is us. Our laws are the laws that we the people have enacted through our elected representatives. Part of living in a civilized society is that everyone is expected to abide by the rules adopted by the society even though everyone doesn't agree with all rules.
I agree that we should keep society's intresion into family affairs to a the absolute minimum, but children are not property of their parents.
We the people will not allow individual parents to expose their children to abuse or life threatening risk like driving drunk with children in a car or allowing children access to a loaded weapon.
Was the first 55 minutes a set up to ease us into the idea that we should be asking our friends and neighbors if they have guns in their home?
I teach them that if they ever touch one of the firearms (which are either in a safe, gun cabinet or hidden from their little hands) I'll beat the snot out of them. To date, both my children know what a firearm is (at least by sight, if not actual function) and neither one has ever attempted to touch any of them... much less show an interest in them.
I will not hide my children from firearms but, I will damn sure teach them the proper use of them! That is MY business, not the governments! Ever! Now, to the thread for some reading...
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