Is it because that's when many graduate high school?
A lot of research indicates that females brains mature around 21 and males around 25.
IMO, 18-25 year old males shouldn't be able to legally purchase AR-15s, shouldn't probably be drinking alcohol and shouldn't be consuming cannabis. Should they be entering contracts, voting and enlisting in the military? Not sure. Should they be punished in the criminal justice system equally to an older person with a fully developed brain? Maybe a sub-adult category is warranted with some restrictions applied to 18-25.
Link: https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/adult-brain/
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It's a concept I created, which means nobody gives a crap about it except me, but here it is:
At whatever age someone 20 or under commits a normal life-sentence crime (say 16), they would spend a maximum 16 years away from society, with rehabilitation and re-integration into society the goals. I know at age 60 I would hate to be held accountable for anything - and I mean anything - I did as a teenager.
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I would consider older (e.g., 25).
For proof of emancipation, could be (1) military ID, or (2)(a) proof of ownership of a homestead (property on which you live and regarding which you pay taxes) or (2)(b) proof of rental payment on a property at an address in which an older voter is not also listed on the voter rolls.
"Adult activities" includes voting and buying any kind of gun. If you are too immature to own a gun (which includes getting a free photo ID), then you should not be voting, and vice-versa. Also, I would consider having a major medical procedure to be an adult activity, and so parental consent should be required unless the individual is emancipated from their family.
Although, I would consider lowering the minimum age for buying alcohol and cigarettes (go with the European model here), as long as the punishment for DUI's increases significantly.
As to punishment in the justice system, I would abolish the juvenile system for intentional/forcible felonies resulting in death when the perpetrator is over the age of, say, 8 years. All such people should be charged as adults. If they don't know by 8 that it is wrong to kill someone, they will never figure it out. If they want to defend on the basis of lack of mental capacity, they can do it like adults do, and the court can rule.
you weren't by any chance "under the influence" when you typed that were you?
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Sorry. I know it seems as if I post comments like this simply to be provocative, but the most common variable among young people who do stupid things is that they are stupid. Smart kids generally do not. Since we can't have honest conversations about intelligence in our society, we will probably end up penalizing the smart kids in a quixotic effort to protect the dumb ones from themselves, or penalizing young women (assuming that we still believe in that category) for the sake of dumb young men. There are far more dumb young men than dumb young women. This is left out of the age of majority debate.
I know I made better decisions after I was totally responsible for myself...which is to say, when I had moved out of my parents home into my own place.
When I had parents sheltering me from stupid decisions, I made more stupid (youthful) decisions. I had the latitude to be stupid when I lived at home (or when I was at undergrad).
Once you are totally responsible for yourself, you suddenly care more about the effects of your decisions...you follow the news more, so you will vote more responsibly (especially after you see that tax amount on your paycheck). I know I took my grad school studies much more seriously than undergrad. I had worked to support myself before I went. I was paying for it. I got married halfway through it. (Many friends in grad school who went straight into grad school because they didn't know what they wanted to do after college, and who still lived at home at times, would still party their asses off like undergrad.)
But you and I may have been on the same wavelength: it may be worth lowering the age of majority in order to "jumpstart" some of these children, er, adults.
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Anecdotally, I did a lot more stupid shit in college than I did after getting married at 24. And us boys were much less mature than the females our age. I'd be fine with 21 for females and 25 for males in this new category I am proposing: "sub-adult".
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IMO the physical ability to do work, plus a H.S. education (roughly 60% of U.S. population) are the requirements for those "Nestlings" to fly off on their own at 18 yrs....btw, there are clearly millions of citizens who will NEVER achieve "Adulthood", so factor that in.
As for the AR-15s...NO ONE should be able to purchase them...if folks want to shoot them, a) join the military, or b) find a range that lets you use "Their" weapons....
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There is nothing magical about the AR, other than it looks like a military rifle. It is the easiest to use and to accessorize. Get used to seeing it used more and more, because it is the single most popular rifle being sold now. Also, minorities are buying them in record numbers. For better or for worse, a ban is not worth discussing; it is politically unworkable.
and "AR-15" type weapons have been banned before...regardless of their popularity...they are absolutely impractical and unnecessary for personal home defense, or hunting, or target shooting. They are, however, very effective as weapons for Mass Murders...BAN THEM...AGAIN.
If anyone wants to play 'Soldier' let them go to a licensed range and shoot the heck out of watermelons, or hillsides...pure sociological stupidity to have them available just because a lot of people 'Want" them.
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