for the police to deal with fake IDs and parties involving underage drinking, and they could focus on more serious crimes. In 1988, the United States Government raised the legal drinking age in order to reduce the number of drunk-driving deaths, but, since then, there has not been any drastic decrease in alcohol related crashes. The problem that society needs to deal with is how to teach young people to drink moderately and not to drink when driving, because some people are going to drink no matter what the law says. Drinking and driving is a serious matter because it endangers peoples lives, but it is not only people under the age of twenty-one that drive under the influence of alcohol, many people twenty-one or older choose to drive intoxicated. In order to correct this problem, the government should increase the severity for being caught driving drunk in order to reinforce the dangers of driving under the influence and to make sure that people have less incentive to drive intoxicated. In fact, if the government would lower the drinking age back to eighteen and then enforce more strict driving rules, I believe that the number of alcohol related driving accidents and deaths will decrease drastically.Therefore, did it really benefit the United States to change the legal drinking age to 21? In my opinion, it did not, because “It is not obvious that learning to drink with moderation, and not to drive when one is drinking, automatically happens to a twenty-one year old as distinguished from someone three years younger” (Buckley, 174). If eighteen-year-olds are given the privileges and responsibilities of adults, then the government must believe that they have the ability to make good decisions in important matters, of which should include drinking alcoholic beverages.Bibliography:Buckley, William F., Jr. “Minimum Drinking Age Laws are Ineffective.” Alcohol:Opposing Viewpoints. Eds. Scott Barbour, Bruno Le...
