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Joe Walsh on 18 yo carrying guns:

He’s right : I Disagree, like many who heard this podcast

Sure, Joe is right about checks before anybody gets a weapon — backgrounds, etc.

But:

His reasoning about 18yo should be able to get an assault rifle or handgun bc they’re old enough to enlist in military is an old, tired and wrong headed argument.

Young Soldiers are supervised, trained rigorously and subject to strict discipline and consequences if they fuck up and break safety regulations.

Joe should be smart enough to recognize this distinction and qualify his ideological, libertarian position on this question.

I’m not the first person to make this crucial point.

As a former Marine, I learned to handle firearms with the highest level of respect for safety. It is branded into your brain, and permanent muscle memory !

Too many 2nd Amendment ideologues carry a cavalier attitude about placing weapons into untrained, unsupervised, careless and immature hands.

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