Drinking Age: Some Food for Thought

At the University of Georgia, kids caught drinking are handcuffed, fingerprinted, photographed, and booked into the Athens-Clark County jail. This happens to anyone approached by police and discovered to have consumed alcohol, even kids who are not being disruptive or engaging in other crimes. 

With this in mind, please ponder over these questions:

1. What is more dangerous: driving your vehicle too fast, or being tipsy inside your own dorm room after having had a few drinks hours previously? 

2. Are there 18 year olds who drink but never drive drunk? Are there plenty of people 21 or older who choose to drive drunk and are often the cause of fatal accidents when doing so?

3. Should people who are considered by the law "too young" to drink alcohol be considered old enough to deal with the implications of going to jail and then having a permanent criminal record??

4. Do people deserve to be physically restrained and locked in jail who are doing nothing to threaten public safety or harming anyone else? 

5. Is it fair that adults (bar owners) knowingly sell alcohol to underage kids, and then other adults arrest and take them to jail for it?? What kind of message does this send to our youth?

Just some things to think about.