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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Another more drastic measure (for the USA, not so much for other places): instead of maintaining "registration" for all males age 18...
How about mandatory military training and service for all able-bodied/minded men and women between 18 and 20. It should be a civic duty to the country to serve. Plus they get their weapons training, real actual military training rather than this proud boys pretend garbage that gets peddled.
That way this younger generation can grow up to be adults who carry firearms, know how to use them, how NOT to use them, when to use them, when NOT to use them. And they've proven themselves mentally and physically capable of handling it.
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I agree whole heartedly on mandatory military service, bring back the draft. At 18 years a person enters military service for 2 years, no exceptions for anything other than a physical condition. During my 21 years in the Army I saw many young kids, who were problem children for their parents, be made to face consequences for their actions and grow up. You either learned to control your anger and emotions or you faced repercussions.
A couple examples.
A neighbor kid was loud, obnoxious, a bully and a hot head. I met up with him one day a couple of years after he got of the Marines, and he was a changed person. Polite, mature and a hard working guy.
A guy in my unit in Germany stole a military truck to go to the local bar one night. He was given 30 days in the stockade located in Mannhiem, Germany. At that time a stockade was not a nice place, it was very rigid and infractions were dealt with harshly. When he was being taken to the stockade he was bragging that he would own the place. 30 days later when he returned to the unit he told me he would rather die than go back. He stayed on the straight and narrow until he got of the Army, and I believe he stayed that way in civilian life.
The best thing about the military was it put all races, ethnicities, city kids, rural kids, rich and poor into the same environment. You learned, firsthand, how to work with people that you didn't interact with where you were raised.
Everyone should perform some kind of civil service for two years. If a person didn't want to go into the military they would be placed in something like the Depression era CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). You should be expected to give back something to your country, it gives you a sense of ownership in the wellbeing of the country.