Minnesota ban on 18- to 20-year-olds obtaining handgun permits is unconstitutional, federal appeals court says
Minnesota ban on 18- to 20-year-olds obtaining handgun permits is unconstitutional, federal appeals court says
Minnesota’s ban on 18- to 20-year-olds obtaining a permit to publicly carry a handgun violates the US Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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.
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.
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.
I immediately thought the same thing, but unfortunately there’s no constitutionally guaranteed right to alcohol.
Yet.
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
Something something the right to beer arms
Isn't there a legitimate medical reason that's not a thing?
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.
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.