Die for you country at 17 but not allowed in pubs (Congress, legal)

[dizzybint]

I wonder why this law applies that in the military, you can join at 17 with parental consent but not get into a club or pub till 21, or in some cases 18, I just dont get this at all... If you seen adult enough to die for your country. then why not adult enough to have a drink..or enter a drinking establishment. in the US.

[313Weather]

I stopped applying logic to the way Americans do things a long time ago.

[Bo]

Because this organization gained prominence, starting in 1984 and got Congress to raise the drinking age back to 21. It had previously been 18 in most states.

[annie_himself]

Greatest country in the World.

[nashvols]

Originally Posted by Bo

Because this organization gained prominence, starting in 1984 and got Congress to raise the drinking age back to 21. It had previously been 18 in most states.

^^^^^
Winner winner chicken dinner.


There are some folks in this country (teetotalers, IMO) that fight alcohol laws on just about every front, many times in the name of children.




That same organization has raised a stink about a proposal to change Tennessee law and allow the sale of wine in grocery stores. I guess they haven't figured out that kiddos prefer cheap beer to wine, and that every place is supposed to card, so what's the difference?



I'm sure some of them out there would go ahead and go back to prohibition if that was an option.

[harry chickpea]

What MADD did by lobbying was force Congress to embrace a denial of matching funds for highway projects to state who didn't up the drinking age. There is no question that a national law would be unconstitutional, so that was their sneaky way around it. By having the states enact the laws, fighting would be extremely difficult and costly.

The issue is "age of majority." At the point a person becomes able to vote and be considered an adult by law, that is the age of majority. In THEORY, if all those from 18 to 21 voted out the legislators and governors who collude with the disruption of their legal rights, they could get it overturned.

MADD lobbying was one of the first volleys in the nanny-state wars. Success encouraged many other lobbying groups to adopt underhanded tactics.

[Big George]

Let's raise the legal drinking age to 21 - across the board, applying to all the states.

Let's also raise the age when people can join the military to 21. End of story.



...by the way, most people joining the military are not doing so to "die for their country."

[nightcrawler]

your right, but you cant drink a beer or smoke a marlboro.

but you can get killed for your country.


what is wrong here.


if you are old enough to go to war, you are old enough to smoke and drink.


America has the most stupidest rules and regulations here. Something is very wrong with us.

[boxus]

I thought it was ridiculous that a 19 year old military member can get have a drink on base say in the UK, but yet he would get in trouble if he had that same drink on base here in the US.

[lifelongMOgal]

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