Post 54- “-PLENTY of fake IDs.”
Now the college kids have fake IDs in addition to just the HS kids. Let’s criminalize everybody. Who’s next?
Whoever wants to drink (especially in college) is going to drink.
My personal opinion is similar to northwesty.
As to higher age curbing traffic deaths.—
I’ll bet that the lesser drunk driving fatalities statistics are across the age board and not only for 18-21 y/o.
Not just because of harsher penalties but that we have solutions to avoid drunk driving.
People are more likely to call cabs or Uber or have a designated driver today.
Why? Because it’s pretty easy and is now “being socially responsible”.
Nobody said you can’t drink (that isn’t stopping). They said you can’t drive while drunk. And then we’ve increasingly made it easier to NOT drive.
So how to make “shots” so less cool?
As to the lower drinking age in many countries. Very true. But it’s also true that what is readily available is limited to beer and wine most of the time.