{"id":1492269,"date":"2022-05-25T18:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492269"},"modified":"2022-05-25T18:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:59:51","slug":"you-can-fight-and-die-for-your-country-at-18-jesse-watters-claps-back-when-geraldo-floats-juvenile-weapons-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-can-fight-and-die-for-your-country-at-18-jesse-watters-claps-back-when-geraldo-floats-juvenile-weapons-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Can Fight And Die For Your Country At 18\u2019: Jesse Watters Claps Back When Geraldo Floats \u2018Juvenile\u2019 Weapons Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-can-fight-and-die-for-your-country-at-18-jesse-watters-claps-back-when-geraldo-floats-juvenile-weapons-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Fox News host Jesse Watters wasn\u2019t quite convinced when \u201cThe Five\u201d co-host Geraldo Rivera floated an age-based weapons ban that would prevent 18-year-olds from purchasing certain firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera cited the ages of several recent <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-shooting-at-texas-elementary-school-leaves-at-least-15-dead\/\">mass shooting suspects<\/a> and argued that even at 18, teenagers were not mature enough to be trusted with certain types of weapons \u2014 but Watters pushed back, arguing that if they were old enough to die for their country, they should be old enough to exercise their constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;You can fight and die for your country at 18,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseBWatters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JesseBWatters<\/a> pushes back on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeraldoRivera?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GeraldoRivera<\/a> after he floats a &#8220;youth&#8221; weapons ban. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tMA57xHVPN\">pic.twitter.com\/tMA57xHVPN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VAKruta\/status\/1529580188224344065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Judge Jeanine Pirro began the segment by asking Rivera what measures he thought schools should implement in their efforts to keep students safe, and he said that the unfortunate reality \u2014 as several of his co-hosts had already noted \u2014 that people intent on causing harm often found a way around such security measure in order to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera then reflected briefly on gubernatorial hopeful Beto O\u2019Rourke (D-TX) \u2014 who crashed Governor Greg Abbott\u2019s Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/very-clearly-staged-cbs-reporter-says-beto-used-seat-holders-to-slip-into-abbott-presser-unnoticed\/\">press conference<\/a> to scold him for failing to enact gun control measures \u2014 and President Joe Biden, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/its-just-sick-biden-uses-school-shooting-address-to-slam-gun-lobby\/\">took aim<\/a> at the \u201cgun lobby\u201d during his Tuesday remarks addressing the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is offensive about Beto O\u2019Rourke \u2014 and to a different degree to the President of the United States is railing against the gun lobby last night \u2014 no one is suggesting anything that really can guarantee total protection for our children,\u201d Rivera continued. \u201cBut we can suggest some concrete steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rivera went on to say that it was important to \u201crecognize the erratic nature of teenagers,\u201d and he listed off the ages of several recent mass shooting suspects before suggesting \u201ca\u00a0Juvenile assault weapons ban.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can\u2019t buy a beer, if you can\u2019t get a license to drive a semi, until you are 21, how is it okay for you to be able to buy legally a weapon of war, an assault weapon when you are 18?\u201d Rivera asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, you can fight and die for your country at 18,\u201d Watters pushed back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then you\u2019re monitored by corporals and sergeants and officers \u2014\u201d Rivera continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t get a handgun until you are 21 legally,\u201d co-host Martha MacCallum objected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t use a handgun,\u201d Rivera protested. \u201cThese people only use handguns when they run out of ammo in the long guns. \u2026 Juvenile assault weapons ban do something. This could be Republicans and Democrats together, Right, Left, red, blue \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are stripping a Constitutional right away from law abiding citizens because of some wacko,\u201d Watters pointed out, still apparently unconvinced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News host Jesse Watters wasn\u2019t quite convinced when \u201cThe Five\u201d co-host Geraldo Rivera floated an age-based weapons ban that would prevent 18-year-olds from purchasing certain firearms. 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