TN: House Passes 18-20 Year Old Adults Eligible for Carry Permit

'Perzactly.

Indeed! We need to continue to defend our 2nd Amendment

MSG Roy Cheever SGT (Join to see)
SO TRUE!!!

SPC Kevin Ford
True indeed. Although if you follow NRA the post stories the are reported in papers and TV nationwide of people defending property and other lives by use of firearms. And in places like FL and TX, the criminal almost always loses before law enforcement can get involved.

PO1 Jeff Chandler - There are definitely some who have gone too far and have lost sight of the importance of the police. Police are needed and a vital part of our society. I've always said that police need to be held in high regard and also to high standards of conduct.

That's how we judge military units. The ones that are held to higher standards tend to be objectively better. There will always be those that will sink to the bare minimum the standard allows and when certain departments (and the legal system in general) hold officers to low standards, it is no surprise to me when some officers sink down to the standard's bare minimum and take their departments with them.

SPC Kevin Ford I agree that for some gun ownership is not necessary. But the decision to defend will always be in God’s will, not some official who thinks they know better. I defend our right to carry and bear arms. Even though I am a small arms instructor, I do not own a firearm. But I’ve been trained in areas most other people are not. And have been successful and blessed enough to have survived when conflict arose.

MSG Roy Cheever - Oh I'm not downplaying their utility, but ironically enough I suspect they are most effective for those that have them if everyone doesn't have them. That is to say, they are most effective when the criminal has the expectation that the person they are trying to victimize probably won't be armed and then they turn out they made a mistake.

The flip side of that coin is that armed people are also victims of violent crime by armed violent criminals. It's one of those things that's a bit too complex. Gun control doesn't stop violent crime. Universal gun control like in the UK doesn't stop it. What it does seem to impact is the weapons the criminals likely use and the weapons the citizens likely use to defend themselves. In the US we won't have universal gun control so the piecemeal gun control is worse than none at all. That is to say we disarm the law abiding citizens while also having firearms readily available and in supply to criminals because they are plentiful in the next state over.