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Florida bill would correct post-Parkland mistake

March 13, 2023 by Tom Knighton Leave a Comment

The shooting at a Parkland high school shook the entire state of Florida. In the aftermath of that deadly event, lawmakers went on a rampage of their own. They passed a number of laws that, frankly, the state never would have considered beforehand.

One of those was a bill that restricted the sale of long guns to only those over the age of 21.

Now, Floridians between the ages of 18 and 20 are left defenseless in the face of the rampant violent crime we’ve seen over the last few years throughout the nation.

These people are, in essence, second-class citizens who don’t get the totality of their rights. They can vote, enlist in the military, buy a house, drive and own a car, and a host of other things, but they can’t buy a gun.

A new bill, however, seeks to change that.

A group just introduced the Minimum Age for Firearm Purchase or Transfer Act, which would lower the age to purchase a firearm in Florida back down to 18. The bill is being pushed by state Representatives Bobby Payne, Tyler Sirois, Randy Fine, Ralph Massullo, and Bob Rommel.

This push deserves widespread support. Depriving 18, 19, and 20-year-old adults of their constitutional right to self-defense was always an immoral restriction that did not actually make us any safer.

Think about it like this. We never would accept laws that say, make the right to free speech only apply to those age 25 and up. We would never accept legislation allowing police to unreasonably search and seize from those under 23. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that the Second Amendment establishes an individual constitutional right to keep and bear arms—so how the heck can that right possibly be taken away from an entire demographic of legal adults simply based on their age?

And the idea that such a restriction would stop mass shootings has always been a complete farce.

Precisely.

That next to the last paragraph I quoted frames this perfectly, in my opinion. The writer, my friend Brad Polumbo, nails it there.

We would never tolerate the restricting of literally any other right espoused in the Constitution to those above a certain arbitrary age, so why the right to own a firearm?

Florida made a mistake in the wake of Parkland. I get it. When people get emotional, they do things they may later come to regret. We argue with our spouses and say things we didn’t necessarily mean, too.

Luckily, Florida can fix this mistake. They can repeal this law and allow these adults to enjoy the full expression of their right to keep and bear arms.

“But we restrict drinking to those over the age of 21!” someone might try and fire back.

Bold of them to assume I support that particular rule, though, because I don’t and find it to be an absolutely stupid argument to make. Just as I think someone sent to die for our nation should be free to get drunk the night before, I think those who are old enough to vote should have the means to overturn tyranny should that result instead.

Florida needs to repeal the law and they need to do it swiftly.

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Indiana lawmaker receiving pushback on gun control bill

January 22, 2023 by Tom Knighton Leave a Comment

Indiana isn’t generally a state that pops up among the most pro-gun in the nation, but it probably should be. This is a state that has embraced gun rights fully and continues to work toward restoring them wherever it can.

At least, as a state, that’s the case.

However, some lawmakers don’t agree, then get outraged when their anti-gun bills receive pushback.

Gun control, tax transparency and college savings are among the topics being tackled this year by state lawmakers from the WLFI viewing area.

A new bill would raise the age from 18 to 21 to buy semiautomatic assault-style rifles and large-capacity magazines.

State Sen. Ron Alting, a Republican from Lafayette, authored the proposal.

“We’re tired of seeing our children getting slaughtered. Enough is enough,” he says. “This bill is not going to solve all that, but it just comes to beg the question with just common sense: Does an 18-year-old really, really need a weapon that’s going to 69 rounds in less than a minute?”

Alting recognized the bill would be controversial among many members of the General Assembly.

“We’re a very, very strong NRA state,” he says. “We’re very strong NRA in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. I expect a lot of push back on this.”

He should expect pushback, but not because of the relative strength of the NRA in the legislature. He should expect pushback because it’s a stupid bill.

First, he doesn’t get to decide what an 18-year-old needs and doesn’t need.

Second, he invokes mass shootings to try and push this measure, but the majority of mass shootings are carried out with handguns, which already have an age restriction attached. That’s important to remember because if mass shootings are the problem, then clearly age restrictions don’t have any kind of impact so far as we can see.

But age restrictions do limit self-defense options for lawful adults under the age of 21. These are people who may be living on their own and should be entitled to the best tools for self-defense available. Since handguns are off the table due to federal law, that will leave long guns.

For many, both in Indiana and elsewhere, that means an AR-15, which allows quick reloads and an adjustable stock for shooters of differing sizes. While they’re not my first choice for self-defense home defense, others may decide differently.

And Alting is basically telling people he knows better.

Yet it’s easy for the Indiana lawmaker to look at a few isolated situations and pretend that these guns represent some grave problem. Yet tens of thousands, at a minimum, are sold each year to people under the age of 21 that are never used for any nefarious purpose.

Then, when someone misuses an AR-15 or similar weapon in a mass shooting and happens to be under the age of 21, people forget about all of them and act like it’s some inherent flaw that magically goes away when you’re old enough to drink.

That’s why Alting is going to get pushback on this bill. It’s not because of the NRA, but because this bill deserves it.

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