Keeping The Drinking Age Essay

Back in the 1982, the amount of teens that were killed due to alcohol consumption was roughly 20,000 per year so a legal drinking age was put in place. (Hook) Over the years, the law has saved many people from dangerous or fatal traffic accidents but as time goes on, many still believe that the drinking age should be lowered, higher or stayed the same. The drinking age should remain the same as it already and still save lots of lives already and that the human body will be fully functional by that age. (Thesis)
One reason why the drinking age should be kept at 21 is that when the person becomes the age of 18, they finally enter the age of adulthood. (Topic Sentence) Once they become an adult, they have the rights to make their own decisions like the right to
(Topic Sentence) Some say even if the law was written for a legal drinking age, there is still lots of traffic accidents occurring due to new legal drinkers. The percentage of accidents happening due to new drinkers is 35% as of 2009. They are also saying that decreasing the drinking age will allow more profit to businesses as it will attract to more people from 18-21 as they would start drinking. More people would be drinking in bars, restaurants, or in any licensed places. (Counter Argument)
To summarize it up, the drinking age of 21 has saved thousands of teenage lives from dying due to alcohol consumption. If the drinking age wasn’t in, there would be more traffic accidents yeah? (Rhetorical Question) Bringing the drinking age up can save more lives but restrict freedom to those who entered the age of adulthood. But bringing the drinking age down to like 18 can increase the amount of people dying due to newly drinkers or underage drinking. But either way, we as people should be more concerned about this topic as many of us Americans are known to drinkers, especially to those who are underaged drinking. (something to