national drinking age should be lowered

United States
May 23, 2008 9:31am CST
I'n many other countrys the national drinking age is 18 but in america it's 21. If we teach are young people how to be responsible with alcohol at a young age I believe there will be less accidents caused by drinking. Tell me what you think.
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• Southend-On-Sea, England
23 May 08
I think if you could have seen the UK as it was before the drinking age was reduced, and see how the UK is now, you'd prefer it to be kept at 21. Efforts have been made here to teach younger people how to be adults at 18 more responsibly, but sadly the opposite has happened. We now have a drink-fuelled, crumbling society in which the teen-booze hooligans have taken total control, and very little seems to be happening to try and stop them. Interesting point you've brought up, and thanks.