rainerann
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Well, guns can kill people. That is a clear difference. It is similar to a legal age to drink so that 18-21-year-olds cannot just get in a car and kill someone in one night of being a careless and inexperienced drinker. I do support the age limit for drinking for the same reason. We should protect young people to the best of our ability from being in a situation where a decision carries lifelong negative consequences that could be the result of a momentary inability to cope with anger or depression or whatever.Would you still support it if a bookstore set an age for religious texts? Or a corner store set an age for candy? Or PP set an age for services? My problem with this is not the age so mach as it's not the stores place to decide.
Side note for 18-20 year old people: If you have the means, lawyer up. If not, wait for the class-action. I don't see how Wally World Dicks will win this.
I don't see whereas taking the initiative to do something like this creates the potential to create age limits for when you can buy religious books from a store or setting an age limit to buy candy from a store. Buying candy is not going to create the possibility of taking someone's life, from which there is no returning from.
In the study of PTSD within the military, there is a lot of research on the damaging effects of combat. Even in a combat situation, people do not kill other people without experience a spiritual response to that action.
PTSD was defined after world war one when machine guns and other advancements of weapons created the highest death toll of any war up to that point. The term shell-shocked was defined because of this and the study of PTSD has evolved since this time.
So when we are talking about changing the age limit for owning a gun, we are talking about something that does not have as many comparisons in retail. We are not talking about shoes, or toys, or candy. We are talking about an instrument that requires a significant amount of responsibility and maturity to own and use in a responsible way.
Therefore, I support this initiative that these businesses have taken to promote finding a solution that doesn't have to create political division. If we took more action, we would create less division. This kind of goes along with the saying that idleness is the devil playground. They did something and took action rather than making some kind of speech that brought attention to themselves for saying someone else should do something and I support them for this.