Yeah they SAY our young troops (18-21) are in Iraq defending our freedom (though our own government is taking it) but when they can’t exercise the most basic right to armed self defense. I suppsoe they’re transformed into dangerous idiots when they return here–in the estimation of officialdom.
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but the short version is that the reason why the law was written (which the court was validating as being constitutional) was because gun wholesaler(s) in the state had been told that all the cheap college age labor would not be allowed, under the old laws, to go grab handguns off the shelf to place in a box to ship to a dealer.
The legislators weren’t trying to do something for the deserving 18 year olds, they were helping out a big contributor that wanted to keep drawing from a cheap labor pool.
Same outcome, but it’s not nearly as comforting to know why they really did it.
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Yeah they SAY our young troops (18-21) are in Iraq defending our freedom (though our own government is taking it) but when they can’t exercise the most basic right to armed self defense. I suppsoe they’re transformed into dangerous idiots when they return here–in the estimation of officialdom.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:50 am
I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but the short version is that the reason why the law was written (which the court was validating as being constitutional) was because gun wholesaler(s) in the state had been told that all the cheap college age labor would not be allowed, under the old laws, to go grab handguns off the shelf to place in a box to ship to a dealer.
The legislators weren’t trying to do something for the deserving 18 year olds, they were helping out a big contributor that wanted to keep drawing from a cheap labor pool.
Same outcome, but it’s not nearly as comforting to know why they really did it.