Any chance the drinking age will get lowered to 18 any time soon?

[cherokeeprogressive]

75. I know this is TOTALLY hypocritical but I got my first car at 16 and by 18 I was no stranger to

alcohol. By the Grace of God or just dumb luck (you make the call) I didn't kill myself, any of my friends, or God forbid a pedestrian or someone in another car.

I had a hot rod '67 Mustang and was none too responsible with it to say the least. I can still remember driving home from the beach late at night going 110 with one eye closed because with both eyes open I was seeing double.

There is a difference in teenagers today and teenagers back then... I grew up OUTSIDE, either playing Baseball, Football, Frisbee, Hide and Seek, Kick the Can, or racing my bicycle around self-made motocross tracks. My now 21 year old daughter grew up INSIDE, a child of video games and text messages. This summer when I bought her first car I STILL wasn't comfortable that she could guide a car down the freeway without panicking if an 18 wheeler was in the lane next to her... and you know what? I was right.

I do not think an 18 year old who's probably not even ridden a BIKE should have the right to a car AND alcohol because I don't think they're up to the task. You might say I'm not giving youngsters their due but back in the DAY, people in their early twenties travelled across the plains in Connestoga Wagons, fed themselves, gave birth, built homes with their own hands, and defended their land. With each generation, those capabilities get farther and farther away. Today, an 18 year old can't be counted on to be able to accomplish the same tasks of 18 year olds of even a generation ago.

I'm sorry, but that's just how I feel. Yeah, I know, we "send 18 year olds to war", but as far as I'm concerned, those 18 year olds should only able to drink on miliary reservations where their behavior can be controlled.