<p>BPK -</p>
<p>Call me arrogant - I don’t care. A public statement signed by higher education leaders is not going to change my beliefs on the lowering of the drinking age - Is the Amethyst Initiative suppose to change my mind? No. I disagree with their statement and my beliefs are based on my own personal experiences, experiences in my community, situations that have occured in the high school and many other high schools, various college incidences and experiences that have hit too close to home. It is these actual experiences and stories that I have used in forming my opinion on this matter. So I can’t “presume to know what may happen to tens of millions of teens” were the drinking age lowered but I am supposed to listen to the creators of the Amethyst Initiative because you have described them as “droves of well-educated people who are very aware of the issue”?? I am a well-educated person who disagrees with the initiative so that makes me arrogant? So be it. I do not believe that the drinking age should be lowered. That is my opinion. You have your opinion. So be it.</p>