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Originally posted by JonoBN41
I understand your sentiments, but I feel that a lot of these recent incidents have their roots in the change in the drinking age. When I was a kid the drinking age was 18. We regularly went out to bars in high school. When we came home to the folks, we'd better have our wits about us. If someone had to lead you (or carry you) in the house...well... let's just say there would be questions the next morning. Early.

Can you imagine never having taken an SAT or Final Exam in high school? In college you'd be lost. What the hell's going on?

Same with drinking. If the age is 21 and you had no experience, it's the same thing. Simply put, you don't know the limits and you don't know how to handle it.

How many self-drinking deaths were there in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s? Not many if any.

It seems we're sending babes into the wilderness with no preparation whatsoever, because the preparation is illegal. It's paramount to sending a recruit into battle with an M-16 and not training him how to use it properly.

Now we are seeing the results.

That kid is dead because of policy and parents who didn't have a clue. I saw both sets of those parents on TV the other day. They were sad he died, but otherwise were clueless.

Naturally, they blamed the fraternity, the school, the state, the.....

Jono

What you are proposing??? "training wheels" for drinking?? Beginner classes in high school???

Even rational adults can forget their limits once they are over the edge of intoxication...(yes yes I speak from experience !)