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When is it OK to chug a beer: 18, 19 or 21? |
| By OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writers |
| Published Feb. 22, 2009 at 5:26 a.m. |
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In 1983, Wisconsin changed the legal drinking age from 18 to 19, and then, in 1986, the state bumped up the legal drinking age to 21 after the federal government mandated that any state with a younger drinking age would lose federal highway funds.
Were you a legal drinker at 18 or 19? In retrospect, do you think you were mature enough to handle alcohol consumption, or do you think 21-year-olds make better choices and are, in general, more responsible?
Sound-off, wise Milwaukeeans, who were legal before 21 or anyone that has an opinion about Wisconsin's drinking age.
I think 18 is a fair age for legal drinking. If you can vote and go to war, you should be able to drink.
The drinking age should be 19. This way, high school kids aren't able to buy alcohol, yet the law honors the adult status of people under the age of 20.
Keep it at 21. Technically, people are adults at 18, but really, most people are still pretty immature at this age. By 21, most have started to grow up a little bit, and usually make better choices.
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Posted by LegallyBlonde on Feb. 24, 2009 at 1:28 p.m. (report)
18-year old soldiers are very brave. Way braver than me. I have a few friends in Iraq and consider what they are doing both brave and amazing. That being said I just don't see the relevancy between serving in a war and drinking. They are unrelated. That is all I am saying. Every time this comes up I hear..."If you can hold a gun and liberate a nation blah blah blah then you should be able to have a beer." The comparison simply just doesn't make sense.
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Posted by gmwrobel on Feb. 24, 2009 at 9:48 a.m. (report)
other countries have better public transportation. Cars are too accessible for young drinkers these days. if we had better and safer ways to get people home after a night out, i don't think we would have the deaths and injuries that we have. and i'm a little confused about the rant about the military personnel. about them being an adult in every other way accept to drink. i wasn't in the military and i probably never will be but when i turned 18, i had all the same choices they did but i still wasn't able to drink. it's not a matter of whether you're in the military, you're still not allowed to do it. Because they had special training for something that has nothing to do with alcohol, they should be allowed to drink but i can't because i didnt' go through boot camp? this is where i'm confused. are they seen as more mature because they went through hell to be trained to do something they signed up for? if it's maturity, then the kid i graduated with the took college classes since he was a junior in high school should be able to drink at the age of 18 because he's obviously smarter than his peers? i guess i don't see the relevance of serving in the military and alcohol. if it's that important, do what every other teenager does and have your parents buy it for you or have an older friend get you some.
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Posted by JIMNWI on Feb. 24, 2009 at 9:09 a.m. (report)
The drinking age for me was 18. And I don't remember half the problems we have now with under age drinking. None of my friends were killed in dui accidents or even got dui's. The age should be 18 or 19, but not 21. almost every other country is 18 or 19 and they don't have any issues with it.
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Posted by CoolerKing on Feb. 24, 2009 at 7:52 a.m. (report)
I served six years in the Army. Out of all the memories I have in those six years, one of the vivid ones is my trip back to Milwaukee after basic training. I'd spent 8 weeks busting my ass, getting yelled at by drill sergeants and sweating out a summer in a base in South Carolina. I had a layover in O'Hare. Standing there in line, in my uniform, the cashier carded me for the Schlitz tall boy I was having with my crappy sandwich and denied me because I was 18 and not the Illinois drinking age. Ridiculous. Anyone in the military can tell you the hell you'll pay if you're caught irresponsibly drunk while in uniform.
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Posted by HDrider269 on Feb. 23, 2009 at 10:14 p.m. (report)
This is in response to legally blond's relevancy comments, I am a 45 y/o College Educated Professional male who also never served in the US Military but I have close Friends and Family members who are US Military personnel and some retired. This is about being an 18 y/o or older Soldier or civilian and it being illegal to go to a bar where a college educated bartender works and sitting down and having a drink if they want to. I think you need to sit down with a large group of 18 to 20 y/o's who are serving in Iraq, Afghanistan,etc. or have served a tour or two or never served at all and tell them that they have every responsibility of being an Adult and at 18 are legally responsible for their own actions and are tried as an Adult within our Legal system if they venture down the wrong path in life and dealt punishments of an adult sentence. But you are NOT ADULT enough to choose if you would like to drink alcohol or NOT! It comes down to ones RIGHTS not the censorship of those rights, abuse them and pay the consequences! You want to pick and choose and censor what some LEGAL ADULTS can and can not do! And as to your Scenario you gave with the 8 y/o simply ABSURD!!!!!
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