Is Constitutional Carry a Mistake?

[HayesGreener]

It's been approximately six months since we've had this discussion my opinion on mandatory training hasn't changed and I still think Cops are civilians.

I've given this topic some thought in the last 6 months and here's what I think.

Research indicates the human brain, specifically the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that processes rational thought, doesn't fully develop until approximately 25 years of age.

I think we should have phased majority. Not until 25 but from 18 to 21.

At 18 you can join the military (or the Air Force). If you're in the military you can vote. If if you're not in the military you can't vote or be drafted.

I checked and on average you must be 21 years old to be a police officer in the United States. You can go to the Police Academy at 18 but you have to be 21 to be hired.

So at 21 you get full majority You can vote. You can sign a contract. You can be drafted. You can buy a gun and carry as you see fit. You can buy alcohol.

I think this would change our country for the better.

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Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman

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[bc22wm]

It's been approximately six months since we've had this discussion my opinion on mandatory training hasn't changed and I still think Cops are civilians.

I've given this topic some thought in the last 6 months and here's what I think.

Research indicates the human brain, specifically the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that processes rational thought, doesn't fully develop until approximately 25 years of age.

I think we should have phased majority. Not until 25 but from 18 to 21.

At 18 you can join the military (or the Air Force). If you're in the military you can vote. If if you're not in the military you can't vote or be drafted.

I checked and on average you must be 21 years old to be a police officer in the United States. You can go to the Police Academy at 18 but you have to be 21 to be hired.

So at 21 you get full majority You can vote. You can sign a contract. You can be drafted. You can buy a gun and carry as you see fit. You can buy alcohol.

I think this would change our country for the better.

Okay, but the age of consent is 21. Want to change your sex, 21. Take "hormone therapy", 21. Be charged as an adult, 21. Have a driver's license (cars being potentially more dangerous than guns), 21. Buy booze, tobacco, POT, 21 etc. etc. etc.
Research indicates... sorry don't trust them. The research indicates what they want it to, no matter how they have to fudge the numbers. Science isn't cowpies, but scientist/researchers sure do shovel a lot of it.
There is no magic number. I know more than a few 50-year-olds that are not as mature/adult as some 15YO that I know.
I do agree though. You are a legal adult at 18 or 21 stop the sliding scale B.S. Legal being the key word not adult in fact.

 

[3L120]

Okay, but the age of consent is 21. Want to change your sex, 21. Take "hormone therapy", 21. Be charged as an adult, 21. Have a driver's license (cars being potentially more dangerous than guns), 21. Buy booze, tobacco, POT, 21 etc. etc. etc.
Research indicates... sorry don't trust them. The research indicates what they want it to, no matter how they have to fudge the numbers. Science isn't cowpies, but scientist/researchers sure do shovel a lot of it.
There is no magic number. I know more than a few 50-year-olds that are not as mature/adult as some 15YO that I know.
I do agree though. You are a legal adult at 18 or 21 stop the sliding scale B.S. Legal being the key word not adult in fact.

Remember long ago when they decided that the age of majority was 18, so you could enlist, vote and buy booze. The last didn’t last long, and I wish the middle privilege had gone as well. I remember, kinda, being 18 and realize my thought processes were not adequate for something as important as voting!

 

[The Night Rider]

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Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman

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So, database of one?

 

[DunRanull]

Constitutional carry should be the law; issuance of a (non-required) permit should follow a training session, which would make interstate reciprocity while traveling possible.
I would further add that Constitutional carry should include bowie and other knives on the person, concealed or open. If a concealed firearm is legal, why not my bowie or kukri?