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Presidents of about 100 colleges and universities (including Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County) are calling on lawmakers to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. They say current laws actually encourage binge drinking amongst college students.

Do you agree with the idea of lowering the drinking age?

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Melissa
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Wait, so kids are abusing alchohol when its illegal to do so, so if we make it legal then abusing alchohol is not as bad. hmmmmm. I get it.

 

 

 A parent's responsibility is to educate and train their children at home right from wrong. Rebellion is a natural stage all people go thru.  Dosen't make it right or acdeptable.  I did it.  "You" probably did too! If my son/daughter is old enough to fight for, defend and possibly die for the freedoms we enjoy in the United States of America, then they are old enough to have a drink!

What is this world coming to???  What morals and values are we teaching the young people of today???  Perhaps we should be raising the voting and driving ages to 21 as well as the enlistment age!  HMMM!!!   Now there's a real thought! 

Are you for real, and if so have you been drinking? Have you ever been to a morgue? Have you ever met a parent of a young teen whose body lays lifeless at the hospital where it was too late to revive him/her due to a night of binge drinking at an underage party where someone nice and of age bought alcohol for these kids. There has always been underage drinking and always will, but why promote the destruction of their brain cells earlier than the laws allow. Who do we hold accountable for the DUI's or DWI's not to mention the innocent lives that are lost from the accidents that result from the drinking. A law was passed years ago to protect our young and impressionable children, it is not a perfect law but it works for the most part ( the rest is up to the parents ) to teach our future generation to be responsible and respect the laws of our country, then some air head comes along and wants to change it because our children our drinking anyway. Put away your bottle and write again after you take a nap.

Save me now!!!!!! 

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