re: We need term limits AND age limits

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Do you feel the same about military enlistment?

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I've never understood why this is always the knee-jerk response.

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if you're old enough to defend this country, you deserve the right to vote for your Commander in Chief.

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I don't believe that. If you're old enough to carry a gun and be trained on how to effectively kill people with it, and young enough to do what strangers tell you to do without questioning, you are old, and young, enough to defend this country.

We don't elect our officers.

The People don't vote on whether or not to go to war, people who are too old to defend their country under arms are the ones who vote for war.

Our founders set up the country such that a young man could be conscripted before he was old enough to vote. If it was good enough for them, it's good enough for me.

There's a reason there's an upper age limit for conscription, and a lower age limit to qualify to be able to vote for or against war - and they don't overlap.