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Initech

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4. How about this as an alternative?
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 01:09 PM
Aug 2019

If we can't ban the damn things, then why don't we raise the purchasing age to like 40? Fact: Most of the recent wave of mass shooters have been under 25 (with the exception of the Vegas shooter). Raising the purchasing age, while not guaranteed to make this go away, would at least make people think twice before buying one and pulling the trigger.

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