@gAlienLifeform to News • 1 month agoMinnesota ban on 18- to 20-year-olds obtaining handgun permits is unconstitutional, federal appeals court sayswww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square147arrow-up1305arrow-down14file-text
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minus-square@shalafilinkEnglish17•1 month agoTobacco use isn’t in the Constitution. Any state can have a drinking age of 18, perfectly legal. They just get their federal highway funds yanked. So it’s tough to tell someone, “Yeah, it’s a right for other adults, just not you.” If I had my druthers, I’d raise the national age to 21 when brains are a good bit more developed.
Tobacco use isn’t in the Constitution. Any state can have a drinking age of 18, perfectly legal. They just get their federal highway funds yanked.
So it’s tough to tell someone, “Yeah, it’s a right for other adults, just not you.”
If I had my druthers, I’d raise the national age to 21 when brains are a good bit more developed.