Interesting response. We lived in Kansas including the years when we were raising teenagers. My daughter turned 18 in October of her senior year so she was the designated beer buyer, albeit 3/2 which, quite frankly, wasn’t most people’s idea of beer anyway. After one warning her father took away her driving privileges for several months.
Just because someone turns a certain age doesn’t mean that they will be more responsible that day than they were the day before. I have also seen plenty of guys and gals who are over 50 that drink wayyyy too much and then drive so age alone should not necessarily be a determination for level of responsibility IMO.
Just an issue filled with arguments pro and con. Choosing to be a responsible individual should come from within a person, not from government regulations.
“Choosing to be a responsible individual should come from within a person, not from government regulations.”
Totally agree. And really when you get down to it, that’s a lot of what my post boils down to. As for the post itself, I just have a REALLY hard time with laws that tell people responsible enough to serve their country and die that they are too immature to drink.
Which is why most people I know ignored them.
“My daughter turned 18 in October of her senior year so she was the designated beer buyer...”
I basically did the same thing for my friends, mostly with BS skills and not being afraid to go to the “right” neighborhoods where no questions were asked of a cash buyer back then. I cannot believe that I was this actually this stupid. Fortunately, and only by the grace of God, we all survived and there were no victims.
I would kick my kid’s you-know-whats for doing this, severely and repeatedly, even if they were “adults”, for doing this. But this is one of the weaknesses of even supposedly “bright” youths...not being able to foresee potential bad outcomes from their actions.