When I was in boot camp I was already well trained with firearms. From a very young age. They handed us an M14 first morning. No ammunition. Even after thorough training when we got to the range there were a few who quickly demonstrated why we weren’t issued ammo before or after range week. Same with grenades. Despite thorough demonstrations prior to drawing a single grenade there were a couple who proved not everyone is fit to handle firearms or explosives. However I would accept military service for owning firearms and believe everyone else should receive some degree of training in handling weapons and everything related to them. It’s obviously sheer lunacy to believe every swinging dick should be allowed a weapon simply because they’re of a certain age. I wish it wasn’t so but it is.
Further it’s getting to be obvious that a very small minority of miscreants dream of utilizing a military style weapon to do what those weapons were designed to do. I love the AR despite the small caliber but I don’t think everyone needs to have one. I’m not sure what the exact right answers are but I’m certain they don’t include every person with money being able to obtain these weapons. The damage that AK did Saturday has taken 2 more lives since then.