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Random: Texas Schools Consider Drinking Age
Posted August 26, 2008 2:15 PM
M.A.D.D. thinks it is ridiculous and there are both pro and con arguments on whether or not Texas should drop the drinking age from 21 to 18 years of age. An article in Chron.com is fascinating to us because we can't quite understand the logic of the pro side to dropping the drinking age to 18, since the issue at hand is that there is a big problem with underage binge drinking at the big universities. What the heck? What am I missing here? There are too many kids drinking and doing stupid things, so what we should do is drop the legal age to 18 so more kids can get drunk, only this time it's legal. According to this article UT in Austin says maybe. Texas A&M says not now. And a West Texas school says sign it up.
The argument they're trying to make is that if we lower the age it will somehow de-glorify drinking, and kids will do less of it if they could do more of it around adults. Did someone just rent the movie "Idiocracy" and decide that's the direction we should go? This argument not only doesn't make any sense, it's humorous. Here's another quote from the article: "In Texas, the president of the University of the Incarnate Word, in San Antonio, has signed the initiative. So did Pat O'Brien, president of West Texas A&M in Canyon.
"I am not encouraging teenagers to drink; that is not why I signed it," O'Brien said. "We have a drinking problem in the nation on college campuses. The current law does not resolve it."
Uh...okay, so the current law doesn't resolve it therefore, let's try something, anything, different. How drunk were these guys when they signed this thing? Listen, I'm not saying I didn't do a little underage drinking myself, and boy did I curse having to wait to be 21 to go to a bar when all my older friends were going every weekend. But I also drive quite a bit. I knew that the decisions I made in life were far different at 21 then they were at 18! I'd rather not be sharing the road with teenagers who have been LEGALLY drinking and trying to decide whether or not they're cool to drive home!
Look kids, we here at Guyville aren't haters. Far from it. When you hit the magic 2 to the 1, we'll be here ready to celebrate that first shot of gut rot Wild Turkey 101 out of one of our many cool shot glasses. We'll toast to many future years of you shopping in our gifts for men store, and most importantly we'll toast to your long life.
