Instead of arguing for American’s rights, and against the over reach of the federal government which put the current legal drinking age in place– raise the age in your state or we’ll cut off your federal highway funds– in what universe is that not blackmail?–they are using the nanny-state-non-argument that lowering the age will cut down on binge drinking.<\/p>\n
No it won’t.<\/p>\n
Kids don’t binge drink because the legal limit is 21, they do it because they are morons.\u00a0 Isn’t alcohol poisoning Darwinism at it’s best?<\/p>\n
Why is it that some people (by “some people” I mean liberals), instead of reaching for a rock solid, Constitutional truth, would rather grab at\u00a0the\u00a0fluffy, gossamer of ‘we’re only doing it for your own good’ ?<\/p>\n
What’s really going on here is not a push for the liberty\u00a0of \u00a0American adults but a bunch of college administrator’s who are trying to preserve as much of the nanny state as possible while avoiding the necessity of answering uncomfortable questions when their students die of stupidity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Why yes – do <\/em>read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I can see all sorts of great arguments in favor of lowering the drinking age to 18:\u00a0 if a kid can join the military and drive a submarine or operate a cannon, they should be able to get a beer.\u00a0 If someone is deemed responsible enough to sign a contract, vote, have paternity enforced or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}