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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
You don't have to infer, I'll tell you outright...I'm for bringing it back down to 18. I don't think you need to change the driving age. I think you need to have very strict consequences for drinking and driving with none of the second chance crap that a lot of these multiple offenders got away with years ago. The problem with drinking and driving wasn't age related, it was cultural and enforcement related.
I agree with 33, though, no one has the balls to go against MADD which is populated with a bunch of teetotalers who can't understand that they are turning future generations into binge drinkers instead of normal social drinkers. We all know the things that go along with this like rape, alcohol poisoning, assault, etc. It doesn't stop when they leave college. I have friends from medical school that still drink like this (including my husband when he gets around his friends, which is luckily not often.) It has become a societal norm for anyone below a certain age...which is SAD!
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Ha! The old conservative geezer (me) and the young liberal "whippersnapper" finally agree.
I agree with 33 as well. MADD has really messed things up with unintended consequences. Binge drinking is a real problem. Sort of like what happened with prohibition in the '20's. The things prohibition was supposed to stop became more prevalent. Ditto's the SAD!