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DemocraticPatriot

(5,410 posts)
Sun May 7, 2023, 08:49 PM May 2023

Maybe there should be an "age limit" for owning an arsenal, instead of worrying that Joe Biden

is too old to serve another term as president ???


By my observation, there has recently been an observable pattern of "senior citizens with guns"
committing many of these crimes or gun assaults--

or at least, more than would be expected to be "their share"...

shooting people who knocked on their door, for instance...



I am not an "ageist", but it is common sense that people eventually become too old to safely operate an automobile, and that is concluded by their driving record, and tests...

so it should also be concluded that at some age, they are no longer competent
to own an arsenal of arms that could equip a small army ??!!!!


(posted in response to the news of a 71 year old "road rage" defendant with over 70 guns)


There is an age limit for youth owning guns, always has been, although there is debate about the number...

I make no argument here about a "number" for senior citizens--
but obviously when one becomes very old, they lose a certain amount of their mental capacity among other things--
I am losing it myself! LOL

Certainly there is no good argument for them being able to possess an arsenal of firearms and ammunition that they are physically incapable of moving by themselves in a reasonable period of time.. LOL

Such would be a target for "criminal repossession", in any case...


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Maybe there should be an "age limit" for owning an arsenal, instead of worrying that Joe Biden (Original Post) DemocraticPatriot May 2023 OP
most mass shootings are by people under the age of 35. lapfog_1 May 2023 #1
It always seems like a "mass shooting", DemocraticPatriot May 2023 #2

lapfog_1

(31,050 posts)
1. most mass shootings are by people under the age of 35.
Sun May 7, 2023, 08:52 PM
May 2023

but I think the right thing to do is ban military style assault weapons and most other semi-automatic guns... from everyone.

 

DemocraticPatriot

(5,410 posts)
2. It always seems like a "mass shooting",
Sun May 7, 2023, 08:54 PM
May 2023

if you are the one who is dead.

But I agree with your point about the weapons.

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