Closing Arguments: Time to Change the Drinking Age?

I have been to the Dixie Chicken and seen the amount of alcohol consumed there. I have seen guys put down a pitcher in 7 seconds. To me age might be irrelevant. Considering that 1 in 5 people between 12 and 20 is a so-called binge drinker, I don't think age is an issue.

Will we constantly give in to people who make poor choices, and then wonder what has gone wrong with our country? We need higher standards to come from our educational leaders. Lowering the drinking age so they don't have to be responsible for underage kids on campus is a cop-out!

Most high school seniors are 18. What is to stop them from buying alcohol for their parties and supplying it to minors? If they want to lower the drinking age it should be no lower than 19.

"LEGAL ADULTS" Lawmakers then should then choose: lower the drinking age or raise the voting & draft age to eliminate this double standard. No other countries have problems; the U.S. is the only country with such a high age for drinking.

Why do the college pres. even act like they care. You mean to tell me that all of those drunken orgies filmed online are happening because it's illegal, therfor it must be made legal. What the hell kind of reasoning is that to expect from a college president? A drunk, horny frat boy sure, but a college pres. What are we paying them for? To live a life of luxury while our kids are allowed to take life threatening risks with alchohol, drugs and unprotected sex while the people responsible charge their parents for the privledge. Fine. Get drunk, get HPV or worse, or pregnant, get stoned and be sure to get that check from the government when you can't finish school. And are working off your debt in a dead end job. While these morons live in mansions with millions in there pockets. There is stupidity and then there are it's enablers, BOTH are guilty. No cop outs are necessary.

i feel as though age does not matter when it comes to binge drinking. i do however think if the drinking age is lowered to 18 that all states must make it 18 to buy tobacco products too. i know in such states as New Jersey, the age is currently 19, and it would make no sense for the drinking age to be lower than the age it is to buy tobacco products.

Lets see...You can vote at 18 and put a gun in your hand to kill or be killed in OUR armed forces. The age limit is not the problem!

Heck No don't lower the drinking age..they need to raise the driving age to 21 and get those drunk teens off the road altogether...how many fatal drunk driving accidents are cause by drunk 16 to 20 year olds?...too many! Our insurance rates will go down and the roads will be much safter...obviously teens are not emotionally mature enough to drive.

I think that age is not neccesarily relevant in this situation. Regardless, an eighteen year old person, LEGALLY CONSIDERED AN ADULT, who is old enough to have their own job, house, car, and be made responsible for his or her own actions, should be able to consume alcohol. If it would so happen to get out of control, they are old enough to also face the consequences. I think that since drinking is made illegal, it causes more younger, illegal, and out of control drinking because once their hands get on alcohol, is like a kid with candy.

there are kids that are 18 right now and drinking so i dont think it is a big deal we arn't really stoping them right now they cant just buy it but we all know that they are so i dont think it's a big deal because they are already doing it right now but they cant buy it

At 18 years of age you are tried as an adult in criminal court, Join the military and die for your country. Enter into legal contracts But you can't have a beer. God this is so stupid. I spent 20 years in theservice of this country and when entered the Naval service I could drink at the age of 18. I think it was right then and it is right now. Yes we should change the law back to what it was.

I feel if you can make them go to war then they have a right to be able to drink at 18! 18 you are a adult! It seems alot of people forgot they did alot of dangerous binge drinking before of the age of 21. I feel if it legal at 18 to drink then young people will respect it more! I feel we should have a trail for a few years using 18 as the legal drinking age. If it does not work then move it up. We need to do something, because this system is not working. Young people need to learn to fight for their own rights!If you want the age changed to 18, then come out and fight for it. I just can not see calling 18 an adult but they can not drink. They fight your wars, but can not have a drink! Whats wrong with this picture!

Prohibition of the 20's proved it is not effective to prohibit alcohol for adults. Today, the same problems result from prohibiting people under 21. Prohibition at any age is problematic. Shall we try to learn from history? Remove the age limit. Period.

just leave it the hell alone. there are more important things in this country to fix. it's not good for your health anyhow. you can wait 3 years.

We put weapons in the hands of our military personnel who are at least 18, we allow citizens to vote at 18, marriage is acceptable to marry at 18, and even younger. We teach our children to take responsiblity like an adult already in High School. I think that we do need to change the law for drinking age...and tighten the laws of driving drunk....More kids are drinking at 16-20 because they can't legally. Monitor it closely and change the law.

You can be 18 and go fight for your country going to war and there not old enough to drink so i think they should lower it

Drinking age should be equal to voting ang smoking age limits. Why can we carry a gun and fight a war at age 18 but not drink? Also, maybe young adults wouldn't be sneaking around so much when they're drunk if they could just drink and stay wherever they are- without worrying they'll get in trouble.
Lower the limit to age 18!

YES! The drinking age should be changed. My son was in the Army at the age of 17 but could not drink legal.He fought in Iraq for two tours (over a year), got home and 72 hours after he got back to the U.S. he died in a ATV accident. He was 6 weeks from being twenty one. What is wrong with this picture? If college students could drink maybe the over drinking could get better.

I think that drinking is well overrated. When I was underage I was threatened by my father not to do drugs and drink. Well when I finally got out of the house I was very hesitant to drink. Then I started and drank like a fish and was foolish as most are at a young age. Then I started to notice that it wasn’t such a big deal and it just gave people a reason to be foolish and ignorant. When I turned 21 I basically stopped drinking. So I think that young adults should be just that young adults and be allowed to drink. Though I do feel lowering the age will just start to cause problems in our youths. But I feel that we have to start some where. And in another 50-70 they might just get rid of it all together like other countries.

Absolutely. The 21 age for alcohol is a ridiculous double-standard. An 18 year old can vote, be drafted, join the army, or go to prison for life, but they can't drink a beer?

They can buy pornography.
They can get married.
They can buy cigarettes.

They can't buy a beer?

Are you people insane?

Do you really think you're doing anything other than "glamorizing" beer?