Drinking Age

Drinking Age

Do you drink? Are you over the age of twenty-one? Well I am a nineteen year old and this is the reason I think the drinking age should be changed to the age of eighteen. My main points that I believe are the armed forces, voting, the court system, and the other countries.

My first reason that I think the drinking age should be changed to the age of eighteen because, at the age of eighteen you can go into the armed forces and vote. If you can go into the armed forces and be sent off to another country to fight and risk your life. You should be able to drink if you were able have that chance to lose you life. You can die but you can not drink and be a little sick.

A second reason to change the drinking age to eighteen is can go out and buy anything except alcohol; what is only 3 years going to do? Also at the age of eighteen you can responsible to go out and vote for our country and be able to vote how we want our country to be run.

Another reason to lower the drinking age to eighteen is that to be, at the age of eighteen in the court system you actually become of an adult at that age. A person can go out and get into trouble and be convicted as an adult and fined as an adult. You would be able go to jail or prison for a serious or a stupid reason or for no reason at all.

In the other counties, such as France, there is lower drinking ages. The counties that do that have little or no problem with driving under the influence or underage drinking, because they grow up around it so they do not really drink that much. I think that our government just wants to arrest people and get money in that way they are really greedy. If they do lower the drinking age less people might drink because, there are no reasons for them to go out and drink. Most people that I talked to that are over the age of twenty-one say that ever since they turned to twenty-one they might go out to get a drink occasionally. However they said they do not go out like when they were underage because it lost the feeling and thrill to get alcohol.

Some people may argue that the drinking age should remain at twenty-one, because if the court system does change the drinking age to eighteen, tax dollars may be raised because the government would need more money towards the police department. People might say that more police would be needed. Because they think that more people would get in trouble,

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