Okay, that tells me all I need to know about this conversation. I am done being involved in it.
Apparently not.
Do you get equally angry when people deny a 9yr old a drivers license? Just curious.
Nope. Giving a 9 year old a license would either never or extremely rarely save his/her life.
Maybe you haven't read many of my past posts but I am 16 years old and my biggest pet peeve on this forum is when people tell me that they are important enough that they should be able to defend themselves, but I am not given that same privelage.
Read the Second Amendment. It doesn't end with "if the individual is over 18." Why can you purchase, carry, and use a gun while I can't? Am I not important enough? Is my life not worth it? Can you look me in the eye and say this? I hate it when people misinterpret the Constitution (sound familiar?)
There really is no reasonable age limit that will take out all the irresponsible people and leave only the responsible ones. You should know this. You're an adult and your life is worth protecting and mine is not.
My parents are responsible for protecting me, eh? Replace "parents" with "cops" and make the sentence in reference to everyone. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Should my parents be by my side the full 18 years until I'm an adult? I don't think so. I am responsible for defending myself (also sounds familiar, doesn't it?).
What about when someone breaks into my house. My dad can't get his gun in time and he kills my parents. I can't get out of my house without risking getting shot because the door is in the middle of the house. All he has to do is come back out of the room, and now the whole family is dead.
Every argument that is used by the members of this board for owning their own firearms can also be applied to me. Of course there are irresponsible people my age. There are irresponsible people your age too. Guns don't kill people, people do.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?