Should the drinking age be lowered?

 No, I think that the drinking age should remain at 21. Young teens will continue to underage drink reguardless if the legal drinking age is 18 or 21. If the drinking age was to be lowered this would give younger teens an easier source to get alcohol. More students in high schools would continue to illegally drink since they could just ask most seniors who are 18 to buy it for them. The drinking age should just remain at 21, you are not fully developed mentally or physcally by 18. You still have alot of learning and maturing to do. Teens may believe that are mature enough to drink and may think they can handle their alchol but they cannot. Most teens drink to be cool or to fit in, thats the problem. Teens think that drinking and driving is no big deal and that nothing can happen to them. I think that if the drinking age was to be lowered more accidents would occure along with deaths from alcohol poisoning. Most teens do not know how to manage how much they drink and they would most likely take advanatge of the lowered drinking age. Another reason why so many teens drink now a days is because of adults buying the alcohol for the minors. Adults should be more responsibile and not provide to minors, this could save more lives and prevent accidents. Teens think they are smart and can handle their alcohol intake when really they cannot. Most adults can't even handle their alcohol. I think the drinking age is just fine were it stands now and that peopel should be more aware of alcohol and what it can really do to you. Alcohol can damage you mentally and physically. Teens need to take more responsibility and stop acting reckless. They do not understand that their lives along with many others are in danger when drinking. I believe that in the near future if the drinking age was to be lowered to 18 there would be more problems and things would get out of control.

Comments

[Amanda Rigby]

I agree completely with you, Casey. I also hit those points in my response because I also believe teens are not yet mature enough to be allowed to obtain alcohol. I think lowering the drinking age is unnecessary, like you said, because it is still obtainable by any age. I also agree with your statement that adults should be more responsible because of the large number of accidents affiliated with drunk driving that could have been prevented if something changed within the household. I definitely think if the drinking age was lowered things would get more out of control than they already are.

[Erin Sullivan]

Casey Louise Levesque,
I completely agree with everything you stated and I said much of what you said. I thought you made some very good points about why the drinking age should remain at twenty-one and not eighteen. The teenagers these days do not know what danger they are doing when they are getting behind a wheel of a car. Many teenagers are not responsible or mature enough to realize that drinking is not a game. Although it can be fun and create memories, it also is very serious and can destroy ones life.
I also completely agree with the adult buying it for their children, I talked about this as well. I believe that when adults are buying it for their children they are encouraging their child to drink because they are not revolting against it. They are not being responsible themselves so they can not expect their child to be responsible either. When one is not responsible for their actions how can they expect their child to be responsible for theirs?
I think this society is absolutely instance because they are thinking about lowering the drinking age. Either way the law will be broken no matter what age is legal. Making 18 year olds think it is okay to drink is one of the worse things the law could do because usually that means they are a freshman in college. Being a freshman in college many of the upper classmen provoke them to drink, and if they are legal to I’m sure most will be having a lot more parties than the usual freshman.