Posted on 03/20/2014 6:52:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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.
I agree with that. The only caveat would be what happens with family. If you’re under age whatever your parents say is ok is ok. I’m not talking about giving whiskey to a 10 year old, I’m talking about a 14 or 15 year old having a glass of wine at a wedding. And the like. It’s nobody’s business but mine.
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.
Why not include all drugs? Democrats wouldn't be able to afford enough buses to get their voters to the polls.
Yeah, justice was finally served, when the lying druggie Crystal Magnum was found guilty of stabbing her boyfriend to death.
Naw, they knew they were slaves. The real reason the Soviet Union was so lenient about drinking was because the state made so much money selling booze.
It was pretty hard to argue that an 18 year old was responsible enough to carry a machine gun around rice paddies but not enough to have a beer.
“...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.
LOL
Younger drunk chicks!
I’d hit that.....
Idiots ....
Oh, I agree, but what changed other than who would be drinking is my point. I don’t see why any grunt today can’t get a drink any more than I saw no reason to prohibit it back then.
If you believe that lowering the drinking age is a great idea, visit the UK and Germany.
My sibling returned from the UK. Lived in London. Said that the rate of young men suffering from liver disease is stunning. Puke all over the sidewalks and roadways. Beer and hard liquor for breakfast is the norm.
I’m sure younger drinkers will be completely responsible. Just ask my dead brother-in-law. A young drunk driver killed him and another passenger.
Brilliant idea.
I don’t have to grow up and you ain’t the boss of me!
A practice banned by the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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.
Not sure I understand. Are you saying there should be a different drinking age for military than others?
But 18 (for both) if in the military.
The legal drinking age for military is 18.
The commander has the last word.
Considering that we live in a world where scientists can find parts per billion and parts per trillion, a zero tolerance
policy is both dumb and tyrannical.
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