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Nobody has the right to complain about alcohol laws unless you live in Oklahoma (or Utah). Around here grocery stores are only allowed to sell beer that is 3.2% ABV. Liquor stores can sell stronger beer but must sell it room temperature. Liquor stores are also the only outlets you can buy wine or spirits. They also must close at 9PM, Sundays, and most holidays. All this to appease Baptist moralists who don't drink anyways.
I have relatives in Ireland and they have been able to drink since they were 18.
It does seem silly that a kid can sign him or herself up for the military putting their very lives at risk yet they cannot legally buy a beer.
On the other hand I don't think most American kids could handle it. We have so many movies and songs that celebrate getting wasted yet they seldom show the horrible aftermath of it. Every year we hear about college kids who away from the protection of their parents for the first time make terrible decisions and drink themselves to death.
Keep it at 21.
I support keeping it at 21 years of age. The difference between the US and Ireland or any other place in Europe is that most people drink in village or city pubs... and they walk home afterwards. In the US, it's much more likely that after drinking in a bar or a friend's house, people get into a car to drive home. If the 18-21 year old crowd could guarantee that they wouldn't drink then drive, then I wouldn't object. However, below the age of 25, most young men make poor decisions when partying.
I feel the same way about marijuana. I'd much rather that young people not get into that sort of thing until they are 25 years old and their brain has finished developing.
As to them being able to enlist in the military at the age of 18... well the discipline, training and learning specialty skills are good for them, but I'd rather they not go into combat until they are at least 21+ years of age.
Nineteen is the best age, IMO. Most people are one year out of high school so you don't have eighteen year olds becoming legal in high school and giving alcohol to juniors, sophomores, and freshman.
Nobody has the right to complain about alcohol laws unless you live in Oklahoma (or Utah). Around here grocery stores are only allowed to sell beer that is 3.2% ABV. Liquor stores can sell stronger beer but must sell it room temperature. Liquor stores are also the only outlets you can buy wine or spirits. They also must close at 9PM, Sundays, and most holidays. All this to appease Baptist moralists who don't drink anyways.
I live 20 miles from Kansas and the law was the same there for years. I don't know if they have changed it. In the 50s, the Mormans controlled Utah so tight that you couldn't even buy food or gas on Sunday.
Nineteen is the best age, IMO. Most people are one year out of high school so you don't have eighteen year olds becoming legal in high school and giving alcohol to juniors, sophomores, and freshman.
And what's so magical about 19? if only everyone matured at the same rate and age.
While living at home it should be up to the parents and once an individual is on their own, it's up to them.
Funny how people have accepted the idea that the state should be raising everyone's children for them
And what's so magical about 19? if only everyone matured at the same rate and age.
While living at home it should be up to the parents and once an individual is on their own, it's up to them.
Funny how people have accepted the idea that the state should be raising everyone's children for them
The drinking age at 21 is useless. Tons of high school kids and many 18-20 year olds drink regardless of the law and most of them has never been caught and/or prosecuted.
A very large percentage of 18 year olds need a few years in the real world to mature before they have a try at drunk driving.
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if only everyone matured at the same rate and age.
