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Originally Posted by pandy
Honestly, you don't think it seems kind of odd that an 18 year old can buy an AR-15 but not a beer? Obviously, in Florida they don't think an 18 year old is mature enough to drink, but mature enough to buy an assault weapon.
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The AR 15 isn't an assault weapon.
But to the main point, it's more odd that we will send an 18yo to war yet not allow an 18yo to drink. Or that we allow them to vote but not drink.
So think a little on alcohol and driving and how kids do a bad job at being responsible doing either, and you see how maybe our society doesn't want to make it easier for them to combine the two. I haven't looked it up, but I'm going to guess that upping the legal drinking age had resulted in fewer DWI deaths to teens and the innocents in their path on the roads. Upping the drinking age occurred at the same time that MADD had real influence in cleaning up our roads and putting a negative societal opinion on drinking and driving.
