lower the drinking age
Rough draft
United States believes that at the age of 18 you are considered an adult and are responsible for your own actions. At the age of 18 you can move out of your parents homes, I and every other girl in this room can go have an abortion, at the age of 18 you can sign up for the military and legally kill people and even put your own life at risk to protect our country, we can vote on who we want the next president of our country to be, you can go to a car dealer ship and purchase a car, you can even get married! The United States has the highest rate of DUI's and traffic accidents, yet we have the highest legal drinking age.
If the age was lowered it would be much safer for those who enjoy to drink. People from the age of eighteen to twenty one can drink safely and securely in their own homes with friends. They could also drink at bars and restaurants under supervision where the bar tender can simply just cut him or her off from buying beverages, unlike at a party. There are many stories of college parties where someone has gotten alcohol poisoning and was left to die because the other college students were too scared to call 911 since they were drinking illegally.
I believe that the drinking age requirement of 21 has not stopped teen drinking, it has pushed “under aged” binged drinking into private and less controlled environments which has led to more health and life endangering behavior.
United States believes that at the age of 18 you are considered an adult and are responsible for your own actions. At the age of 18 you can move out of your parents homes, I and every other girl in this room can go have an abortion, at the age of 18 you can sign up for the military and legally kill people and even put your own life at risk to protect our country, we can vote on who we want the next president of our country to be, you can go to a car dealer ship and purchase a car, you can even get married! The United States has the highest rate of DUI's and traffic accidents, yet we have the highest legal drinking age.
If the age was lowered it would be much safer for those who enjoy to drink. People from the age of eighteen to twenty one can drink safely and securely in their own homes with friends. They could also drink at bars and restaurants under supervision where the bar tender can simply just cut him or her off from buying beverages, unlike at a party. There are many stories of college parties where someone has gotten alcohol poisoning and was left to die because the other college students were too scared to call 911 since they were drinking illegally.
I believe that the drinking age requirement of 21 has not stopped teen drinking, it has pushed “under aged” binged drinking into private and less controlled environments which has led to more health and life endangering behavior.