gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 months agoMinnesota ban on 18- to 20-year-olds obtaining handgun permits is unconstitutional, federal appeals court sayswww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square147fedilinkarrow-up1302arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1298arrow-down1external-linkMinnesota ban on 18- to 20-year-olds obtaining handgun permits is unconstitutional, federal appeals court sayswww.cnn.comgAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square147fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up109arrow-down4·4 months agoNo booze or cigarettes, but guns are totally cool.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down2·4 months agoTobacco 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.
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.