Lowering the drinking age?

[Penn]

all this is nice, but drinking is a privilege, not a right, therefore, it can be controlled by whatever means the government sees fit.

look at it this way, right now sober teens dont exhibit common sense, Im sure you have seen them in their tin can exhaust hondas trying to impress everyone around with their driving ability.

Hear! Hear!

I see them during the daytime, and I have to assume they're sober! (well.......)

I can't imagine them at night, along Rte 235, or Great Mills Rd.!

Rte 301, in Waldorf, must be a real blast to witness!

 

[bcp]

Good point
but please tell me, what's the ratio of Honda ricers to total number of teens?

seems to be growing every day if you ask me.

 

[bcp]

Like I said... up the driving age to 21

then you miss the point.
driving from 16 to 21 gives you 5 years of driving experience before you cloud your judgment with drinking.
if you bring the of driving up to 21, and give them a beer at the same time you are really asking for trouble.
then you get someone trying to learn to drive, and trying to learn to drink at the same time.
those two courses should not be started at the same time. too confusing

 

[pcjohnnyb]

seems to be growing every day if you ask me.

So, how about, if you own a vehicle with more money spent in fiberglass accessories than what the vehicle itself is worth/cost, a fart-can exhaust, and/or a "system" that has the bass turned up excessively then you cannot consume alcohol nor get a CCW permit, and are under review for suspension of driving priveledges?

Sound like a plan?

 

[pcjohnnyb]

then you miss the point.
driving from 16 to 21 gives you 5 years of driving experience before you cloud your judgment with drinking.
if you bring the of driving up to 21, and give them a beer at the same time you are really asking for trouble.
then you get someone trying to learn to drive, and trying to learn to drink at the same time.
those two courses should not be started at the same time. too confusing

Lets drop the driving age to 14 and make the drinking age 19?



Same principle.

PS: In case it needed stated. I don't want no damn 14 year olds driving around unsupervised.

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

CCW is a constitutional right.
drinking at 18 is not.

You and I need to go to Annapolis and talk to the lawmakers about the CCW issue.

I know it'll never happen, I'm just sayin'.....

 

[bcp]

You and I need to go to Annapolis and talk to the lawmakers about the CCW issue.

I know it'll never happen, I'm just sayin'.....

Ive talked to them before on other issues.
You just want to reach out and touch them, hard.
arrogant bastards.

 

[Penn]

Ive talked to them before on other issues.
You just want to reach out and touch them, hard.
arrogant bastards.

I just observed something: Seems to me it's pathetic when you have to ask someone if they'd like to meet you, and go for a motorcycle ride. Can't bear to go it alone?

 

[bcp]

:shrug: splain please.

I just observed something: Seems to me it's pathetic when you have to ask someone if they'd like to meet you, and go for a motorcycle ride. Can't bear to go it alone?

 

[Penn]

:shrug: splain please.

Nah, just musing.............

 

[bcp]

Nah, just musing.............

ok, because, I dont have a motorcycle, and I damn sure wont get on the back of someone else's.

 

[Penn]

ok, because, I dont have a motorcycle, and I damn sure wont get on the back of someone else's.

Well, you do have to lean, one way or another.

 

[Toxick]

Because can you imagine high school parties if alcohol was easily available?

 

[Penn]

You mean, like it's NOT, already available?!?

 

[Vince]

Don't know if this has been mentioned already because I don't want to read this whole thread, but MD drinking age used to be 18 back in the 70's. Didn't work. More bars fights every weekend, drunk driving up, ALOT! The cops were real busy. They changed it back to 21....can't remember when. In New Jersey, back in the early 70's it was also 18. Not a real big deal. Not alot of drunk driving, accidents, etc. Don't know why the big difference in the states, but....:shrug:

 

[bcp]

Well, you do have to lean, one way or another.

yep, Im straight.

 

[puggymom]

I like the 18 to buy in stores, 21 to buy in restaurants/bars rule some places have.

 

[puggymom]

Lets drop the driving age to 14 and make the drinking age 19?



Same principle.

PS: In case it needed stated. I don't want no damn 14 year olds driving around unsupervised.

DYK in South Dakota one can get their license at 14.

 

[bcp]

I like the 18 to buy in stores, 21 to buy in restaurants/bars rule some places have.

so they buy the beer, but have nowhere to drink it.

Gee, I wonder if the go home and share with mom and dad, or if they just drink it in the car while cruising around looking for equally drunk loose babes.

 

[Nonno]

UM Prez Supports Lower Drinking Age

DCist: Univ. of Maryland President Supports Lower Drinking Age

NBC4 picked up an AP story about the Amethyst Initiative, a movement to lower the legal drinking age from 21 to 18, noting that C.D. Mote, Jr., the president of the University of Maryland, has signed on as a supporter. Over 100 college presidents have joined the initiative, saying they have observed that the higher drinking age has created a dangerous climate of secretive binge drinking on their campuses. Johns Hopkins University president William Brody also signed with the effort, which carefully calls for "an informed and dispassionate public debate over the effects of the 21 year-old drinking age." Is your college or university on the list?