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01 Feb 2017, 6:45 pm

nick007 wrote:
I don't get it either. It doesn't make sense why 18 year olds can go to bars but cant drink until they're 21. Another thing I don't understand is why 18 year olds can join the military or become cops & get handguns but they're not allowed to buy em until they're 21.


That one does make sense to me. There's more instruction and supervision in a gun-equipped force than in the field. What I can't understand is that people can be drafted to serve in the military, but the arms companies don't even have to go non-profit when their host country has its back to the wall. Some even work for both sides.