Seriously how far will this go??
18 year old "adults" who can be sent to war, sent to prison, pay taxes, be legally kicked out of their parents houses, and sentenced to death can't drink alcohol because there is a correlation (which may or may not imply causation) showing that car crashes decreased when the drinking age was raised.
You know what else would lower the rate of car crashes? IF THE DRINKING WAS 60! OR BETTER YET, IF NO ONE AT ALL COULD DRINK.
Honestly, how far will the madness go? How much curtailing of our rights will we continue to put up with as citizens, for a little added safety.
In the words of Benjamin Franklin, "Those who will sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." Truer words were never spoken.
Regardless of the effect on road safety, I do not think that 18, 19, and 20 year olds who drink in a responsible manner and then walk back home, harming no one, should be punished. DUI cases occur with drivers of all ages. Randomly discriminating against and denying freedom to a certain segment of the population is unjust and communistic.
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