As you probably know, the shooter was 18 years old, patiently waited till his 18th birthday to buy that AR15 because that's the. That's the age that you can buy an AR15 in Texas. What if we raise the age to buy an AR 15 to 21? Now, that would have given us three more years to intervene in that troubled young man's life. By the way, his friends called him the school shooter because he talked about shooting up schools before he was able to buy an AR15, go into school and kill 19 kids and two teachers. (26:30–26:40)
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Suggests that raising the legal age to purchase an AR-15 to 21 could prevent shootings by allowing more time for intervention.
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