Federal Appeals Court Issues Ruling Recognizing Right To Carry For 18 Year Olds
BY Herschel Smith
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Americans as so stupid, ignorant, stolid and uneducated. How could this ever have been in question? Most of the men who fought the loyalists at King’s Mountain were of average age of 14 – 15, and were men enough to travel there from “over-mountain.”
The founders knew what they were doing. All rights in the bill of rights are individual, including the second amendment. In order to make sure everyone knew why they were writing the 2A, they explicitly stated it. Every individual must be able to muster, so they have the right to keep and bear arms. Stay way from our ability to call an army of our own if we want to. For no other reason than we want to, but there’s good enough reason given the nature of man to rule badly over others.
On January 20, 2024 at 9:47 am, SamlAdams said:
Paternal 4x grandad was Saratoga at 17 serving under his father. Maternal 4x was 15 at Fort Montgomery and various chasing about of Loyalst/Indian irregulars, dad was a militia officer in another unit.
On January 20, 2024 at 10:11 am, Chris in Nanuet NY said:
Hey Cap. You said it very well, explicitly written cannot be interpreted. The right to bear arms is timeless.
On January 20, 2024 at 10:25 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
Nothing illustrates the essentially illogical nature of official thinking than the thoroughly inconsistent nature of its thought processes. Consider the following…
Teen-aged males are considered mature-enough to be drafted or voluntarily join the armed forces at age eighteen, and with parental permission even younger in some instances, but suddenly once that young man becomes a civilian again, he isn’t mature-enough anymore to own a firearm… well, unless the Democrats want to win elections, and then eighteen isn’t even young enough for the minimum voting age.
Ditto buying cigarettes and tobacco products, which in some places is age-restricted. So that gives us young people old-enough to bear arms in the military but not old-enough to smoke or drink legally when they are off-duty.
Is anyone else confused by this, or is it just me?
It is germane to note that throughout the vast bulk of human history, there was no such thing as a teenager. One was either a child or an adult. The concept of teenagers was invented in the 20th century when in many societies a sufficient degree prosperity was reached to allow young adults and older children to have free time and some disposable income.
But even in the U.S. during the Second World War, males as young as thirteen or fourteen years old managed to get into the military ~ generally by being mature-looking for their age and lying about their age on the enlistment forms ~ and virtually all of them performed just fine. Some distinguished themselves, in fact.
Jack Lucas got into the Marine Corps as a fourteen year old and turned seventeen at sea prior to landing at Iwo Jima. Lucas was discovered and his commanding officer elected to keep him in uniform, reducing him in rank from PFC to private, as punishment for deceiving the Corps.
Lucas served valiantly in his time in combat, and was later awarded the Medal of Honor for throwing himself on not one but two grenades to save his comrades. He survived his grievous wounds after being left for dead and after numerous surgeries, eventually recovered to lead a full life, dying at the age of eighty in 2008.