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Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has flip-flopped throughout his career, oftentimes going against the very foundation and values the Republican Party has built itself upon, but his newest proposal of raising the minimum age to purchase a firearm is certain to cause outrage amongst traditionalists all across the United States of America.

The Second Amendment protects the First Amendment because it ensures that the Freedom of Speech Americans pride themselves on cannot be treated as a debatable.

As long as we have guns, we will never allow an oppressive regime to form a totalitarian state inside of America, which is why so many Americans vigorously defend the Constitution and especially the Second Amendment.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"I absolutely believe that in this country if you are 18 years of age you should not be able to buy a rifle and I will support a law that takes that right away," says Sen. Marco Rubio <a href="https://t.co/8TgNC9Car9">https://t.co/8TgNC9Car9</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StudentsStandUp?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StudentsStandUp</a> <a href="https://t.co/uIBourszJJ">https://t.co/uIBourszJJ</a></p>— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/966498863598198784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Now, Senator Rubio has decided to trample upon those rights, saying at a Town Hall meeting on CNN that he would support a law which restricted the rights of those who are eighteen years old adults to own firearms.

The American people, Trump supporters nationwide, and the Republican voters will in no way support such a limitation.

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"I absolutely believe that in this country, if you are 18 years of age you should not be able to buy a rifle. I will support a law that takes that right away," Rubio said.

What the snake in the grass Marco Rubio forgets, is that at 18-years-old men and women are joining the military to fight and in many cases die for their country.

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This is outrageous and outright nonsense. The founding fathers would roll over in their graves if they were aware the government had more powerful weapons than the taxpaying citizens which finance their operations already, let alone to hear a politician recommend further removing those rights.

This is not a solution to America's mental health problem. You cannot simultaneously strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights, or limit them in any fashion, and expect that criminals will follow suit and obey the law.

As The Goldwater has previously discussed, arming teachers who are willing to take the proper courses and training to ensure they're able to protect the children left in their responsibility is the only guaranteed defense that children in the classrooms have against armed intruders who have an intent to kill.

Without a firearm to protect themselves, what do teachers have to utilize as a means of defense against a perpetrator with a firearm? At least armed, they stand a fighting chance.

It's insanity to assume that even if we banned all guns tomorrow, that you couldn't go into the streets of the inner city and buy one for a few hundred dollars illegally.

It's also preposterous to assume that a would-be killer wouldn't simply purchase the equipment necessary to build a bomb, which can be bought at any supermarket, and build one for $50.

Again, they could just as easily wait outside the school in a running vehicle, and plow into a crowd of students, God forbid.

A travesty of sorts, we know, but the underlying problems of lacking parental influence in many households and the issue in America with mental illnesses simply aren't going away.

Rubio continued to suggest that he supports the ban on "bump stocks," which is something that many people falsely believe turns a semi-automatic weapon into a fully automatic weapon, a misconception that simply isn't true.

Besides, one can be made for a few dollars at home.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Whether we are Republican or Democrat, we must now focus on strengthening Background Checks!</p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/966119932793585664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote>

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During the Town Hall, Rubio went on to suggest that he supports strengthening background checks, and that's not as much of an issue to most Americans as it is in limiting the age of purchase of banning accessories, with even the President of the United States of America tweeting support for similar tightening of already existing laws.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A kid too young buy a handgun should be too young to buy an <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AR15?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AR15</a>. Working with <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenFeinstein</a> on a bipartisan bill that will raise the minimum purchase age for non-military buyers from 18 to 21 - the same age you currently have to be to purchase a handgun.</p>— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffFlake/status/966366712001122308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) along with Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is working on a unilateral bipartisan bill to raise the minimum age of purchase for rifles, one that it seems is going to receive heavy support inside of Congress after the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Certainly, any Republicans who decide to work against the Second Amendment will pay a heavy price in the Midterm elections at the hands of the American voters.

Marco Rubio made a horrible mistake, and it will come back to haunt him.

Source:

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/374997-rubio-says-he-supports-raising-age-limit-to-buy-a-gun

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