Drinking has and will always be a problem wherever you go, no matter the age. My stance on this controversial topic is that the age to consumer alcohol should stay at 21. Even if the age limit has a chance to be lowered, it still will be a problem because more teens will consume alcohol regardless of age. Accidents will be high and even higher since the age could be lowered. But in the news a couple of months ago I heard that the drinking was going to be lowered for those citizens in the military and still illegal for minors under 21. However another reason the age of alcohol consumption should stay at 21 because not all people that enjoy alcohol are not mature enough and often act a fool. With all the apparent reliable sources and stats of why a lower drinking age in the US is not good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age
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I feel like you need to work on making your reasons more solid. Also, make sure you o some more research so that you can have some facts to back up what you are saying.
*drinking will always be a problem, but if teens are allowed to begin drinking in the home when they are 18 with their parents around, the likelihood of them making irresponsible decisions is less likely because they are not trying to go behind the backs of their parents to drink as they would be if the drinking age was still 21
*accidents are not as likely if a teen feels comfortable calling a parent to come pick them up because with a drinking age of 18, it will be legal and they will not be afraid of getting in trouble with their parents
*a younger drinking age has worked in most other countries, so why should it stay at 21 in America if it is working well for everyone else?
*rather than keeping the driking age at 21, knowing that teens are going to drink, they should chanage it to 18 and focus on teaching teens how to drink responsibly...that will help the problem with people not being mature enough
*a drinking age of 21 encourages irresponsible drinking habits
*David Hanson, a sociology professor emeritus from the State University of New York at Potsdam, said, "Europe's drinking culture preaches moderate, responsible alcohol intake." their drinking age ranges from 14-18
Move beyond Wikipedia. It won't work as a final source.
You make a few good points, but it could have used some more solid evidence to support your reasons. Make sure you work on this point for your mediated brief. I want to see that you understand that you need not only a thesis and some reasons, but initial evidence to support those reasons.
*The drinking age of 21 promotes drinking in unsupervised and many times unsafe environments for those not of age which in turn has created a "drink to get drunk" youth culture in the US which is a huge difference from the responsible youth drinkers in Europe which has a lower drinking age
*As Peter Coors, the chief executive officer of the Golden, Colo.-based Coors Brewing Co, said, "Maybe the answer is lowering the drinking age so that kids learn to be responsible about drinking at a younger age. I'm not an advocate of trying to get people to drink, but kids are drinking now anyway. All we've done is criminalize them."
*more evidence on why it has become unsafe to have such a high drinking age: "Instead of [drinking] in a controlled situation, going to a bar with a drink limit or something, they're doing it at keg parties in places that are harder to control," stated Alex Koroknay-Palicz, the executive director of the National Youth Rights Association, a civil-rights advocacy group.
*At 18 one can enlist in the military, go to war, and vote for the President of the United States, but they can't consume alcohol legally?
*drunk-driving is not a case that you can harp on because many statistics show a decrease in alcohol-related car accidents involving people ages 16-20, but they also show a drastic increase in the same kinds of accidents involving 21-24 year olds therefore the increased drinking age has not really addressed the huge problem of drinking and driving, rather deaths related to drinking and driving have moved into a little bit of an older age range
*The National Minimum Drinking Age Act is quite possibly unconstitutional. It should be decided by the individual states whether or not they want to set a minimum drinking age, but the federal government threatened to refuse highway funds if states did not raise their drinking age to 21...The 1984 act "was, in effect, a federal mandate forced on the states with little or no input from them," writes the Tampa Tribune's Joseph Brown.
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