{"id":98073,"date":"2023-11-27T12:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=98073"},"modified":"2023-11-27T12:54:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:54:53","slug":"98073","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=98073","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Redefining Adulthood to Deny Second Amendment Rights<\/a><\/p>\n

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Since Parkland, there\u2019s been a serious push to restrict the purchase of long guns to those over the age of 21. As it stands, any adult with a clean NICS check can by a firearm, but some want to change that. They want to restrict the Second Amendment entirely for those under the drinking age.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some might settle for just keeping them from buying so-called assault weapons, but they still want age restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which might not be as big of an issue if there weren\u2019t similar age restrictions in place for handguns. In other words, what they want will keep lawful adults from buying\u00a0<\/span>any<\/span><\/em>\u00a0firearm.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over at America\u2019s 1st Freedom, they ponder the possibility that what\u2019s really happening here is that they\u2019re\u00a0<\/span>trying to ultimately redefine adulthood<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gun-control groups, and the politicians they support, are doing all they can to take Second Amendment rights away from 18-to-20-year-old citizens. But, to do so, they aren\u2019t making the argument that we should redefine what constitutes a legal adult. That would be much more difficult to enact\u2014and, if successful, it would also disenfranchise young voters. Instead, they simply want to take away this group\u2019s right to keep and bear arms.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If they can\u2019t outright repeal the Second Amendment, these groups and politicians are okay with attacking gun ownership at the margins. This is an old approach. That Latin phrase\u00a0<\/span>\u201cdivide et impera\u201d (<\/span><\/em>divide and rule) has been around for eons: it is more commonly said in English as \u201cdivide and conquer.\u201d In essence, it is the principle of conquest by inciting internal divisions in your enemies to break off factions. Gun-control groups often employ this tactic.<\/span>\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A current example of the divide-and-conquer strategy from the gun-control crowd is the effort to restrict the rights of 18-to-20-year-old citizens. Anti-Second Amendment advocates seem to believe that, since the vast majority of gun owners are older than 20, they can get away with stopping young adults from buying guns.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

President Joe Biden (D) has been pushing to clamp down on these young adults\u2019 right to keep and bear arms; for example, in a speech last year, the president specifically mentioned adults in this age group when pushing to ban \u201cassault weapons.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we can\u2019t ban assault weapons, as we should, we must at least raise the age to be able to purchase one to 21,\u201d said Biden.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, let\u2019s understand the basic argument being made here, because it\u2019s important.<\/span><\/p>\n

The argument typically used is that people frontal lobes aren\u2019t fully developed until around age 25. As such, people under that age are more likely to act irrationally. They\u2019re more likely to make impulsive decisions without remotely considering the ramifications of that action.<\/span><\/p>\n

As such, they shouldn\u2019t be trusted with firearms, especially evil \u201cassault weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The science on the frontal lobe development is solid. It might be wrong for some reason or another, but that\u2019s unlikely.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet what\u2019s interesting to me is how, as noted in the first quoted paragraph, the people pushing this stuff don\u2019t want to take away any other right they might have.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Younger Americans can act impulsively in the ballot box, for example, yet that\u2019s not an issue. They can spout off impulsively while exercising their freedom of speech, potentially causing problems, yet that\u2019s not an issue, either. They can enlist in the military where they might be sent off to die for their country without a parent\u2019s approval, and that\u2019s not an issue either.<\/span><\/p>\n

No one pushing this line of \u201creasoning\u201d on guns seeks to restrict these adults other rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet if they\u2019re not seeking to actually redefine what adulthood is\u2013and that\u2019s actually a conversation worth having, if we\u2019re going to base things on brain development at all\u2013then what they\u2019re doing is something far more insidious.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019re ultimately trying to codify the idea that the Second Amendment preserves a second-class right.<\/span><\/p>\n

Think about it. If every other right is available to every adult who isn\u2019t a convicted felony, then every effort to restrict gun rights from those same people is basically saying that this is a right not everyone deserves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once that\u2019s in place, you can keep nibbling away at who is deserving until almost no one is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here and now, part of that fight involves these adults under 21, but if their argument deals with brain development that isn\u2019t finished until 25, why would anyone figure they\u2019d stop there? If you think they will, you\u2019re far more trusting than me.<\/span><\/p>\n

And make no mistake, they might be redefining adulthood here and now, but they\u2019ll keep trying to redefine things until our rights are nothing but words on a page.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Redefining Adulthood to Deny Second Amendment Rights Since Parkland, there\u2019s been a serious push to restrict the purchase of long guns to those over the age of 21. As it stands, any adult with a clean NICS check can by a firearm, but some want to change that. They want to restrict the Second Amendment … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucraps","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98075,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98073\/revisions\/98075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}