As a 28-year-old who can legally drink, I say yes. How stupid is it that think people are "adult" enough to be shipped off to war at 18, sent to prison at 18, but not adult enough to crack open a bottle of beer?
Someone please give me one good reason.
Drop the drinking age to 18 or at least 19. Fair is fair.
2007-09-11 12:38:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
How much of your evening news is spent covering
''drunk driver dead/killed someone/needed rescue blah blah''
each night ?
We have too many drunks out there NOW- no need to add
teenagers to the mix.
Studies have proven two things : alcohol kills brain cells, and
teen brains are NOT fully developed. You do the math.
2007-09-11 13:08:20 · answer #1 · answered by sirbobby98121 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it really doesn't matter. people of all ages are going to drink no matter what the legal age is. in spain, where there is no set age and alcohol is readily available, there is no underage drinking problem. why? because it is not against the law. i think you definitely have a point, because probably fewer 18 and 19 year olds would drink because it is now legal and they just like to break the law....but this would come under some serious fire if proposed. the number would stay about the same, because "good" 18/19 year olds would start drinking because they are allowed to, but "bad" ones would stop because they're not breaking a law doing it. i wish people would just quit making such a big deal out of this. i realize it is a problem, but with all the debates, kids are getting mixed messages and often choose the worse route.
2007-09-11 12:53:43 · answer #2 · answered by drpepperandcats 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I drank from the age of 15 'til about 23, mostly from 15 to 20 and I never drove drunk. It should definitely be lowered because of you make it legal, those kids will drink less. Adults over 21 drink and drive too, therefore, it has nothing to do with age.
At the very least, the people in the military serving overseas should be allowed to drink at any age. 130 F in Baghdad digging a trench to protect those idiots in the Iraqi parliament and they are not allowed to have a cold beer or Jack and Coke? MADNESS!!
2007-09-11 13:37:59 · answer #3 · answered by danbibbins@sbcglobal.net 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know, if Novak Djokovic, the third best tennis player in the world, had won the U.S. Open last Sunday, he would not have been able to uncork a bottle of champagne to celebrate. Djokovic is only 20.
The 21 drinking age is absolutely goofy. To my knowledge, no other country has such a high drinking age. I agree that it it should be lowered.
2007-09-11 13:33:19 · answer #4 · answered by Mr Placid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋