View Poll Results: USA drinking age is 21, what should we do with it?

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  • Leave it alone

    20 29.85%
  • Raise the drinking age

    9 13.43%
  • Lower the drinking age

    35 52.24%
  • Lower or raise it, but just don't leave it alone

    3 4.48%
  1. #71
    darrell74
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    Quote Originally Posted by QuantumLeap View Post
    Keeping it at 21 does more harm than good. Studies show that kids who don't drink until they go off to college will binge drink more than kids who start drinking at a younger age.

    That's why I did my fair share to help prevent binge drinking by buying alcohol for minors after I got out of college.

    my hero

  2. #72
    adolfas52
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    I Think drinking age could be about 19, 21 is to high.

  3. #73
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    Kids drink at 18 and in most countries its legal for them to do so. I'd think lowering it to 18 would make more sense. But 21 isn't a huge impost.

  4. #74
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    Let it be 18 as everywhere else in the world.

  5. #75
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    A law that's hard to enforce and is arguably impractical also encourages disrespect of the law.

  6. #76
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    Leave it be, 21 is just the right age

  7. #77
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    21 is just about right.. leave it at 21..

  8. #78
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    lower to 19 like it is in Canada

  9. #79
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    21 sound about right

  10. #80
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    I'm drunk right now and I feel embarrassed

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    Why does the US military want gay dudes to rump around with straight dudes but women get their own barracks
    And w/ that
    women don't even have to fight on the front lines w/ the infantry

    PHUNK DAT!!!

  12. #82
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    Curious?
    Any mods voted?
    And what did you vote for?

  13. #83
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    18, 19 21 it really does not matter as when were that young we act like morons when we drink anyway and most do not have any self control regardless.

  14. #84
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    Just like during viet nam if your old enought to go to fight for your country your old enough to drink lower it to 18.

  15. #85
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    I think it should be raised to 45 years old

    or maybe I don't

  16. #86
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    Quote Originally Posted by boscokid View Post
    lower to zero - then behead anyone involved in an alcohol related incident that results in injury
    this guy has it right.

  17. #87
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    i say keep it the same, if anything raise it... also i would like the punishment to be higher for the idiots that drink and drive...

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    Just leave it at 21. Immaturity and alcohol is a poor combination.

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    i think in europe its even lower...14 or 16...cant remember...i dont really care about the age....kids tend to drink if they want to anyways

  20. #90
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    Quote Originally Posted by darrell74 View Post
    I think it should be raised to 45 years old

    or maybe I don't

    45 is the perfect age to start drinking

  21. #91
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    51% say to lower the drinking age
    Today is May 16th, 2011

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    i say keep it the same we got too many drunk drivers as it is

  23. #93
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    18 18 18

  24. #94
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    i did a school project on this. It can't be 18, because some highschoolers turn 18. This would open the door for a lot of kids age 16 and under to get alcohol easily. 19 imo is the minimum, but they have to do something about minors in consumption tickets. I know more kids who got them than did not in college. The fine is not the problem as much as that it goes on your record. A friend of mine got 2 minors and had to change his major away from commercial aviation because there was NO WAY he could get hired with that on his record.

    I had a very sheltering mother in high school, this lead to me being blackout drunk 3-4 nights a week my freshman year of college. There needs to be a better way to ease into it. I doubt the states will lower the drinking age because of the revenue the govt gains from minors in consumption/possession tickets

  25. #95
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    18 for beer and coolers, and then 19 for hard liquour perhaps?

  26. #96
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    Drinking law is so hypocritical.

  27. #97
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    Make it 18 for beer & wine, 21 for liquor.

  28. #98
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    Keep it at 21 , if kids want it they will have to hustle it like we did when we were young .


  29. #99
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    It really doesn't matter. When I was 15 I looked like I was 12 and still had a fake ID and drank every day.

  30. #100
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    Lower it to 16.

  31. #101
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    53.85% say to lower the drinking age
    Friday August 19th, 2011

  32. #102
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    It should be the same as the age to vote and the minimun age to be drafted to military service.

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    drinking age should be same as marriage age

  34. #104
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    18, if you are responsible enough to be able to do porn, fight for your country, buy cigs, vote, die in the military, then you should be allowed to drink. Should be allowed to smoke weed to, but that's a different topic.

  35. #105
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    Man I know some dumbass 18 year old kids- including what I was 20 years ago. Bottom line is that they'll get it anyway.

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