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Drinking Age Debate

Seven states now considering lowering the drinking age

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none writes:	Thursday, May, 08, 2008 2:31 PM
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I remember when almost all the States lowered the drinking age to 18. The result was a significant increase in alcohol related driving accidents and deaths. I have no problem if a drunk is killed in a single car accident but it is usually the drunk that survives and the innocent that die. Driving is not a right. As such you may be an adult at 18 but that in itself is not justification to bring the drinking age down to 18.
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Michael writes:	Friday, May, 02, 2008 1:02 AM
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I heard a comment on FOX that drunk driving accidents has been reduced among 18-21. That it was a law that saves lives and we don't want to go back. Well if it works so well, why don't we raise the drinking age to 31... 41... oh just go ahead an ban it altogether. And while your at it, just go ahead and ban driving. It would be a law that save lives! Why not? Fact is if you ban drinking for any age group you would reduce the number of dui accidents for that group. I know 18 year old people who are more responsible to drink than 68 year olds. Responsibility has nothing to do with age. And if you are wondering, I'm 50 and I had a brother killed just a few months after graduation from high school by a drunk driver that had been drinking all day a private party. If he would have been in a bar... maybe some one could have cut him off or seen that he not leave drunk.
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socomgeek69 writes:	Thursday, May, 01, 2008 12:40 PM
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In the United States you are considered an adult at the age of 18 correct? You can own your own property (whether it is land or a car), you can buy and use things such as cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, etc., and you can legally be your own person without your parents telling you what you can and cannot do, you can even fight for your own country, and vote for presidency! So if you can do all of this at the age of 18, why can you not buy, consume, or carry alcohol with you? Are you not an adult, and can do anything you wish? Why is it that alcohol is the one and only age limiting law that does not expire at the age of 18? Does that make any sense? No, absolutly not.
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Lisa writes:	Thursday, May, 01, 2008 5:52 AM
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I am 20 years old. My fiancee is a 20-year old Marine. Our wedding will occur before either of us turn 21. (We have known each other our entire lives and have been dating since we were 15.) He is out there protecting our country and you are telling me that we can't even celebrate with a glass of champange in honor of our matrimony? We are old enough to own land, serve in the military, get married, vote, and be tried as an adult in the penal system at 18. Make a real uniform age. Lower the drinking age to 18.
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Beer McFortyson writes:	Wednesday, April, 30, 2008 6:11 PM
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Yea Son, we gon get hammered baby. 18 son.
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