The drinking age in America should be lowered. At 18 years old, you can vote and fight for the country, you can be charged with crime, but you cannot treat yourself to drink if you would like to.

This does not make any sense. Basically, you can have political efficacy and vote, you can go overseas and see things in war you probably should not see and you can get charged a crime, so you can do and witness a lot of things that many adults do not do or witness.

The law was created to prevent drunk driving fatalities, but maybe if kids were introduced to the right amount of alcohol consumption, there would be less fatalities. Because people would know how to properly drink and not binge drink.

Binge drinking is an issue in this country because 18-year-olds feel like they have to be rebellious against the laws and the drinking age law does not help this. Also, the government has to realize that there will always be underage drinking. There’s no way to crack down on it.

For example, take a house party that gets busted by the cops--they may be able to get a handful of people if that and the rest get off free so they should not even try. Frankly, it does not make any sense that an 18-year-old is considered an adult but still cannot do something that’s a part of adulthood.

I just do not think it is very fair. But then again people say life’s not fair which I guess would make sense in this situation. Who knows if Congress will ever make this change, I feel like eventually over time they will because they have more opposition against it.

Just lower the age because minors will always drink so there’s no point in trying to avoid that.