Unfaire Rights
Eighteen is a big age to turn. It makes the difference in how the world sees us and treats us. At eighteen we can vote on the nation’s president, be tried as an adult, fight for our country, and even win thousands of dollars by buying lottery tickets. So the questions then lie, why are eighteen-year olds are deprived of the right to drink alcohol? Is it politically correct of the government to generalize all teenagers and young adults into a group labeled not trustworthy? If society truly believes that the current drinking age reflects a just representation of the maturity of minors, then how does this level of maturity level lead them to believe that minors are able to help decide the country’s future or risk their lives to defend this nation? The current drinking age of twenty-one constantly mocks young adults and I believe it would better for the country if the drinking age was lowered.
For almost half a century, most states voluntarily set their minimum drinking age law at twenty-one. In the late 60s and early 70s, twenty-nine states lowered their drinking age to more closely align with the newly reduced military enlistment and voting age. The results immediately showed a significant increase in drunken driving crashes and alcohol-related fatalities in those states, as-well as the states around them. As a result, sixteen states had to increase their drinking ages back to age twenty-one by 1983. Confronted by the failure of the eighteen minimum drinking ages, President Reagan signed the Uniform Drinking Age Act mandating all states to adopt twenty-one as the legal drinking age within five years. By 1988, all states had set twenty-one as the minimum drinking age (BU Today). But if rising the drinking age to twenty-one was meant to protect the minors and it still doesn’t seem to be working today, why is nothing being done to fix it. It is in my obvious opinion that the drinking age should be lowered though out the entire country, as well as adding some alcohol
For almost half a century, most states voluntarily set their minimum drinking age law at twenty-one. In the late 60s and early 70s, twenty-nine states lowered their drinking age to more closely align with the newly reduced military enlistment and voting age. The results immediately showed a significant increase in drunken driving crashes and alcohol-related fatalities in those states, as-well as the states around them. As a result, sixteen states had to increase their drinking ages back to age twenty-one by 1983. Confronted by the failure of the eighteen minimum drinking ages, President Reagan signed the Uniform Drinking Age Act mandating all states to adopt twenty-one as the legal drinking age within five years. By 1988, all states had set twenty-one as the minimum drinking age (BU Today). But if rising the drinking age to twenty-one was meant to protect the minors and it still doesn’t seem to be working today, why is nothing being done to fix it. It is in my obvious opinion that the drinking age should be lowered though out the entire country, as well as adding some alcohol