are pushing to lower the legal age for buying rifles and other long guns back to 18.Tony Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter Gina was killed in the shooting, testified against lowering the age."Our current law is working," he said during ain Tallahassee."I implore each of you to remember that law is written in the blood of the victims, including my beautiful daughter, Gina."
After an 18-year-old shot and killed 21 people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022, Cassandra Crifasi, research and policy director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions,"We know that 18-to-20-year-olds have some of the highest risk for gun homicide perpetration, so this is a risky group when they have firearms," Crifasi said."But very few states have done anything to address gun access among this age group.
Criminologists, gun researchers and health policy experts have long said that this lack of development is a primary driver of impulsive behavior among young people. Laws that raised the legal drinking age for alcohol to 21, they said, arose out of data that showed there was inherent riskiness in allowing 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds easy access to alcohol.
"You've got cultural reasons, you’ve got biological reasons, you've got changing social positions," Webster said."All of this makes this group far more vulnerable to doing really dangerous things." CNN and The Associated Press “admitted” to knowing about Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in advance but didn’t tell anyone.