Comment on Kentucky Republican wants to lower the legal age someone can own, conceal carry guns
mrcleanup@lemmy.world 5 months agoHonestly? We can debate each separately. We don’t need a single magic number that we try to apply to all circumstances.
I don’t object to the specific number, I object to making it match a different number as the reason.
Heck, there are probably a lot of 16 year olds that are mature enough to responsibly handle a firearm, that doesn’t mean we should change all the age requirements for everything to 16 either.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Are you in favor a system where tests are administered to verify that people are competent enough to do adult things or do you think different ages for different things is appropriate?
mrcleanup@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think it depends on the thing. I don’t want us to say anyone can fly a plane without a license just because they are old enough and I also think that a some kind of test to see if someone is responsible enough to drink would be stupid when age is good enough for that.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 5 months ago
A pilots license and drivers license both have age and competency requirements. However anyone can fly an ultralight at any age.
How about liability? Signing contracts? Voting?
mrcleanup@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yup, I’m fine with all those having individual, differing, requirements.