Can The Government Take Away Certain Eights "For our own good"? The United States Government has been trying to take away certain gun rights from citizens for years, such as gun control, gun licensing, and even owning a gun unless working for the government. They say it's for safety, controllment, and even better "Our own good". Even though most people own guns for safety or self-defense, hunting animals, or even just target practice in the back yard, although, some use them for other reasons that are not good. If the government were to do this, do they realize the consequences?
This has been an issue topic for quite some time now, and more states are considering revising the law. It is evident in highschool, college, and in public places that 21 is not a working age. It has been clear sense day one that Prohibition never worked in the past, and it will not work now. Now is an appropriate time to make changes to our alcohol policy and begin educating and regulating adults starting at 18 how to drink
Don’t get me wrong I do agree that there should be an age requirement on alcoholic beverages however not at the age of 21. The fact that teenagers become adults at the age of eighteen proves that purchasing and consuming alcohol should be part of being “an adult.” At the age of eighteen one is deemed an adult and with this comes benefits and great responsibility. As an adult you are able to drive, attend college purchase cigarettes, vote, fight for you country, apply for social security, go to jail, and most importantly you are no longer your parents responsibity. Because of all these responsibilities. I believe that purchasing and consuming alcohol should be added to this long list of things.
The Legal Age of Drinking Should be Reduced in the United States At age eighteen, a person is no longer thought of as a child but as a consenting adult who bears all the responsibilities of his or her own actions at home and in society; therefore, the drinking age should be lowered to the age of eighteen to reflect the age of ascension to adulthood. An eighteen-year-old adult is given the right to register and exercise his or her right to vote, and an eighteen-year-old adult can be forced into selective service or is considered old enough to join the military. Another reason the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen is that other nations in the world have a standard drinking age of eighteen. The legal drinking age should be reduced to eighteen because of the responsibilities that are already implied and enforced on these young adults. The drinking age should be lowered because an eighteen-year-old person is considered to be an adult who is held legally responsible for his or her actions in society.
Reduction of Drinking Age to 18 Years The issue of minimum drinking age in the U.S has been a point of contention for decades. Any college or high school student in the U.S will advocate for drinking age to be lowered from 21 to 18, yet the federal law upholds its policy of having the minimum drinking age at 21. Notably, drinking age differs in certain States where persons under 21 years of age are allowed to drink though only under the supervision of an adult. Many may tend to wonder why United States still holds on to this outdated law as opposed to the case in most countries around the world, which have their minimum drinking age at 18 or 19. This paper intends to explore the reasons as to why the minimum drinking age should be reduced from 21 to 18 years in all States.
Like most young people I was out in the world alone for the first time. While young members of the military may be responsible enough to perform military duties it is not a smart decision to allow these members the right to buy and consume alcohol. Military life is greatly different from civilian life. There is more structure and more rules to be followed. Your military duties and serving your country becomes priority.
The Drinking Age Debate: Should It Be Lowered, or Remain the Same? For many years there has been controversy about what the legal minimum age to consume alcohol in the United States should be. Many people believe that it would be beneficial to conform to the majority of other countries by lowering the legal age to eighteen. On the other hand, many believe that we should just leave the legal drinking age where it is now, at twenty-one. This controversy can be broken down into three main points of argument: safety, bingeing behavior, and maturity.
How can a country believe that a young adult is old enough to be into the military, get married and vote, yet still consider the same adult not old enough to drink alcohol? Should we think that they are either old enough for both or not old enough for both? Firstly, being an adult implies being able to make mature decisions, have self-control, and be responsible. When you have 18 years old, you become a legal adult in the US. At this age most teenagers are considered adults in other countries around the world, also be able to vote on issues affecting their country.
10-08-12 The Alcohol Drinking Age Should the alcoholic drinking age stay at age 21? In the United States “The federal legislation passed in 1984 required all states to set the legal age for the purchase and public consumption of alcohol at 21 years” (Drinking). Many people believed that it is safer to keep it at age 21, because for safety of the teenagers and the community. However, the regulation for alcohol drinking age should be changed to age18; because 18 years old consider like adult. In matter of fact, many teenagers in the United States weather or without their family consent they consume a lot of alcohol.
This can be seen through the laws that followed after the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, John F. Kennedy assassination and the killing of Martin Luther King Junior which were meant for the government to control the type of guns that citizens could carry and use. I would highly recommend that leaders and citizens to take part in the gun control measures and laws in order to improve their safety and that of their family from crime. I decided as I said in the beginning to pick this topic because a majority of individuals have been affected by gun violence and it has become a menace to society. I will end with “Guns do not kill people. People kill people” at the end of the day gun lobbyists, owners a like and the general public should advocate for laws that encourage buyers and owners to demonstrate that they can possess a firearm lawfully and responsibly.