Comments on: A Spirited Debate On A Lower Drinking Age

More Than 100 College Presidents Say Reducing Drinking Age From 21 May Cut Binge Drinking

[docpeter-2009]

From the headline, "More Than 100 College Presidents Say Reducing Drinking Age From 21 May Cut Binge Drinking"
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Not likely. More likely is that you will have younger less mature binge drinkers, not fewer, not to mention more DWI and DUIers on the road.

You''d think college deans, chancelors, predidents would recognize this.

[marcpcbs]

More Than 100 College Presidents say lower the drinking age.

This just shows the sad state of this nation%u2019s colleges.

These people thing it''s a good idea to let irresponsibility get hold of our kids even before they can spell irresponsibility.

[godzfan]

Carry A Nation was right, I think we should abolish alcohol altogether. It is the liquid of Satan and causes grave ills upon the land of Jesus.


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Posted by gop_forever at 11:24 AM : Aug 20, 2008
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Well Said, More bush regime rhetoric,A moral statement from the amoral majority.

[credibility2]

Leave the age at 21. The voting age should be raised to 21 as well; it was lowered during the Viet-Nam era and conscription; we don''t have that now. The argument that if someone can go to war and die for their country at the age of 18, makes no sense. Too many kids are just plain stupid and moronic who drink when they shouldn''t. Those that end up killing themselves by over-indulging get what they deserve. Kids that drink and drive and then kill or permanently injure should be given a life''s sentence in jail. Same for any so-called adult who does the same. Alcohol is a drug and impairs judgment. It''s lethal in the hands of kids, since they generally have impaired judgment when they''re sober.

[godzfan]

I love those MADD ladies. Pulling statistics out of their butts all in the name of their cause. These women are no different than Cindy Sheehan and her protests of the war in Iraq. They all have lost a loved one, whether it is from a drunk driver or an action of war,myself included with these people. But you cannot impose arbitrary laws on people because of their age unless it is an across the board ban on all activity that can cause death.
At 18 you can vote,be drafted,enlist in the military,fight in a war,but you cannot drink because you are to young to decide for yourself if you want to take a chance of drinking and dying.
But you don''t get the choice when you enlist of whether you want to go into a war zone and die.
Put the drinking age back to 18 they are going to find a way to buy it anyways.