Children of that age do not have fully developed prefrontal cortices and are not ready for such weighty decisions. I’ll be interested to know why you feel they are.
I agree with Booker & Harris: it’s time to up the fight against NRA obstruction towards common sense gun safety legislation. We MUST AND WILL have universal background checks, outlaw bump stocks & ban military assault weapons. Also why I think we should lower the voting age to 16
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I was at a high school today and as I walked down the hall and viewed their art, their projects & talked to the students, I felt I was around more conscious, alert, and imaginative energy than I feel around most adults. Seriously. Have we not failed them?
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The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights gives citizens the right to bear arms.We simply need common sense gun safety legislation. We also have a right to cars, but we still have traffic rules.
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16? Really? Joke!
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16-year-olds in this country live with a risk of gun violence and other possible dangers more than older people do, and they should have a chance to weigh in on who makes public policies that affect them. Younger people are much smarter today & in many ways we have failed them.
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Voting Age to 16? What’s Your Rational? Why 16? What About 15? 14? 13?
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Republicans: If you really care about the sanctity of life? Make buying a gun harder than it is to get an abortion. Make health getting health care as easy as it is to buy a gun. Monitor drug companies and their price fixing as closely as you checked HRC’s emails.
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