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60 minutes did a segment tonight on
the drinking age in our country. Back in the mid 1980s the drinking age
was raised to 21 in hopes of lowering drunk driving deaths. It hasn't
worked. People think if they don't have these open discussions, it will
just go away. It hasn't. Alcohol use on college campuses has become a
huge problem. Look at the list below at what an 18 year old CAN do, and
let me know if you think the drinking age at 21 is the proper age.
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At
the age of 18, an American man or woman can take a full-time job, they
can rent an apartment, they can join a union, they can take that union
card and get a job brewing beer, making wine, or distilling liquor,
they can get married or have consensual sex,they
can own and drive a car, they can have children, they can adopt
children, they can buy a pornographic movie, they can act in a
pornographic movie, they can have an abortion,they
can buy contraceptives (or get them free in school), they can buy a
semi-automatic shotgun or scope-sighted rifle, they can buy cigarettes,
they can sign a contract, they can sell booze in a bar, they
can become an armed police officer in at least three states, they can
enter a seminary to become a priest or minister, they can get a
passport, they can work as a prostitute in Nevada, they can join the
military and fight, kill, anddie for our country (1/5 of all combat
deaths so far in the Iraq war were adults...under 21), they can serve
on a jury and send murderers and terrorists to death row, they can get
a hunting license and legally carry a high-powered rifle, hey can be sent to death row, they can (and should) vote.
https://www.lewbryson.com/legalat18.htm