A quote from the author, “in the United States, the 0.08% threshold should be abandoned in favor of zero tolerance. Anyone caught driving with any amount of alcohol in their bloodstream should have his or her driving privileges suspended for at least three years.”
Whether you believe justice was adequately served -- without a trial,
Personally, I would rather raise the drinking age to 40. Maybe by then people would learn to drink responsibly.
On the other hand, there are some people who just never grow up.
Do not even PRETEND that any Duke players raped ANYONE in this case. The writer is a liberal, probably a feminist.
I have no problem with lowering the drinking age. I just fail to see how anything would have been different if these man-boys had been drinking legally.
As with the Soviet Union, our people should stupefy themselves with alcohol and — in our case — legal marijuana. Then perhaps we won’t realize that we are slaves of the state.
Yes, mr. Cohan, the NC AG declared the young men innocent because THEY WERE. The prosecutor who tried to frame them by hiding exculpatory evidence for political purposes was the guilty party here.
Don’t try to lie about it Cohan you schmuck.
He cannot, however, go into a place serving alcohol and order a beer or go into a casino nd pull a handle.
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Pick age. Less than that you are a minor. Above that you are an adult. We can talk about what that age should be. But you turn that age and you are handed the whole package.
The ‘drinking age’ should be 18. You’re either a legal adult at that age, or you’re not.
Having said that, I’ve often thought that the legal age to vote should be at least 30-35. One can do a hell of alot more damages to themselves and others at a ballot box than they can with a bottle of beer.
Or, before casting a ballot you have to take a short quiz on ‘civil intelligence’ - as in, Who is your Congressmen? Senators?..ect. Miss two questions, and you can still vote, but it isn’t counted. Could also apply a simpler test. One must net PAY taxes(not counting Social Security or Medicare contributions) before you can vote. When registering, you must show up with the previous year’s income tax forms, or from a year when taxes were net paid.
Back in the sixties all you heard was how it was "only Fair" to lower the age for drinking and everything else to eighteen. When that same generation started having kids they didn't want driving drunk and raising Hell the same way they did, Bada Bing, Bada Boom, pander, pander, it was all about raising the drinking age and instituting harsh penalties for driving under the influence.
Bad idea and bad logic,
You lower the age by 3 years and the underage drinking age will be lowered by 3 years with it.
I still remember the 18 year drinking age when 15 year olds going to keg parties.
Yeah, justice was finally served, when the lying druggie Crystal Magnum was found guilty of stabbing her boyfriend to death.
“...without a trial, the North Carolina attorney general unilaterally declared the indicted players innocent...”
File this one under: Wow, just wow.
This might be the greatest misrepresentation of a factual matter I’ve ever seen.
You can’t have a moment’s interest in anything this mendacious dissembler has to say after that sentence.
Younger drunk chicks!
I’d hit that.....
Idiots ....
Lower the drinking age. Raise the driving age.
Raise the age of voting to what it was before Viet Nam ravaged the 17 to 21 year olds.
Vote and drink, per commander, if you’re in the military.
This is too easy.
Michigan had a drinking age of 18 and I think every high school kid was an alcoholic.
The Duke case would have been different, how?
Not one bit
The age of consent at 19 for sex and booze and stuff would be an interesting proposal
“Researchers at the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University found that raising the drinking age to 21 simply shifted fatalities from those aged 18 to 20 to those aged 21 to 24. They concluded, on the basis of their exhaustive federally-funded study, that drinking experience, not drinking age, is the most important factor.
The researchers found that raising the drinking age was associated with fatality reductions of 5% among 18-20 year-olds at the expense of an 8% increase among 21-23 year-olds. “
http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/DrivingIssues/1059050242.html#.Uyuk3Ph385Y
But of course no Women-Girls were exhibiting that behavior...
What kind of pussy was this writer anyway? Kids drink. It’s a right of passage. Who knew?
Maybe he should propose prohibition again... /s