There has been a lot of tension between lowering the drinking age and keeping it the same. I say it should stay at 21. Why would you want to fix something that has nothing to fix about it. If you lower it there will be more deaths because of drinking and driving. Not only would the drinker die but the drinker could hit an innocent person if they were drunk driving.
The first reason I believe that the drinking age should be kept at 21 is that some 18 year old people don't know there limits an might over do it and get alcohol poisoning.If they lowered it 18 year old people could go to a bar and keep getting alcohol until the bartender says "I think you have had enough." By then you probably are drunk and since your 18 you probably have a drivers license so you would be drunk driving.Then you would die or be pulled over and get a ticket.
Another reason that it should stay the same is that it would make things worse if they lowered it. It would cause more bad than what was thought to happen. An article says after they raised the age to 21 the accidents and deaths lowered from when the age was 18.
If they were to lower the drinking age to 18 with a permit, it would be stupid. Why would you want to be asked "Can I see your permit sir..."? Taking a class is OK but the permit would be stupid. Going through all that hassle and you could just wait 3 years and get a beer without needing to take out a permit. But some people say it a good thing. They are stupid like the permit idea. Ya they know every thing about alcohol but they are older so they probably wont won't need to take the class or get the permit since they are already educated about it.
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