Domingo+Garcia

Changing the Drinking Age = = //Domingo Garcia, a student at Eldorado High school. He is Currently in the process of becoming a Certified Nursing Aid. He Believes that if a person wants to do something let them do it but give them an option. //

February 13, 2013 Why shouldn't the drinking age be moved to eighteen? More Americans drink even before that age. The government believes that teens should be able to drive. Many people think that teens shouldn't have that either, because of how many car accidents have been caused by teens. Another problem is underage drinking. I believe that being a teen driver we should be given the choice whether to drive and not drink, or drink and not drive. Being a teen that does drive, I believe that we should be given the choice to drink or drive. Even though I do not drink I am still for the drinking age to be moved to the age of eighteen. In some places there is the idea of letting people under the age of twenty one drink if they have a driving learners permit, but that wouldn't make any since because it is give a person who is trying to get a driver’s license and the right to drink at the same time. Comparing our crime rate to a country like Canada that does have a drinking age of eighteen and nineteen, our crime rate is unsurprisingly doubled when put side by side in a bar graph. Some of the crimes that are compered in that bar graph do consider drinking and driving. In the United States the legal age to consume alcohol is twenty one; whereas in other countries the drinking age in around the age of eighteen. When a person turns eighteen it is legal for that individual to join any type of military force in the United States when a person. So what makes it right for a person to join the military at the age of eighteen to go into war and fight for his country but when he comes back on leave he cannot legally have a beer even after what he has been through? I’m sure that any other person that has served in any branch of military would think the same, even if they were above the legal drinking age. In conclusion I believe that the drinking age should be moved to the age of eighteen with some restrictions.