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.
I’d leave the drinking age at 21, but raise the voting age to at least 21, just to be “fair”.
AMEN, brother. We’ve lost too many people to drunk drivers or drunk driving. My son had to bury two of his best girl friends who killed themselves by drunk driving. It hit him harder than having to look at dead enemy soldiers in Iraq.
They died for nothing.
I’m for both responsible drinking and responsible driving. They are not excusionary, at least not to a sane person.
How would they learn without violating law?
I don’t have to grow up and you ain’t the boss of me!
No, they would have plenty of time to learn to drink irresponsibly. Being illegal to consume a substance mankind has been quite fond of for thousands of years, is easy to obtain illegally, and is easy to make at home, such a “no booze before 40” prohibition would serve only to instill contempt for the law. Heck, I was a teetotaler until age 35, by which point even I’d have found a way (and soon after did: 1 part honey, 3-4 parts water, add champagne yeast, put in glass jug with airlock, wait a month - bingo: mead).
Personally, I would rather raise the drinking age to 40. Maybe by then people would learn to drink responsibly.
Drinking age should be set based adulthood (mental capacity to enter contracts, serve in the military, etc.)
BAC limits should be set based on science (they used to be, at 0.12-0.15).
Conservatives should realize that prohibitionism is police-state nannyism and should be avoided.