2008-09-04, 02:08 AM
xkatiie Wrote:[COLOR="Navy"]I personally think the drinking age should remain at 21. I had a very good friend die his senior year of highschool because a 40+ yr old man who was intoxicated hit his car at a toll booth in Chicago. Your age doesn't matter if you can handle it any better. Drunk is drunk in my opinion. Sometimes, I think 21 is to young. There are some really really stupid people out there that just shouldn't be drinking.
Because I live in the Metro Detroit area, alot of "Under 21-ers" go across the bridge to Windsor, Canada to drink where the drinking age is 19. Then they cross the border back into Michigan and are driving drunk at 19. [/COLOR]
Driving drunk is a very serious issue because often people don't realize when they've had too much...
But changing the drinking age isn't going to change the fact that individuals will drive drunk regardless. I mean, at the public high school I went to there were sophomores and such who were already alcoholics. The drinking age is sort of a fine line between who can buy alcohol and who can't (which is blurred by false identification cards, etc) but it does little else, except frighten teenagers out of calling their parents/cops when they're piss drunk and worried about the repercussions.
I don't think that it's necessarily a drinking AGE issue, as far as we're concerned. The AGE can be at whatever point it ceases to inhibit a growing body. What we need is a drinking IQ test! "You must have THIS MUCH common sense to be allowed alcohol!"