Should the U.S. Drinking Age Stay at 21?

I believe the drinking age should be lowered for several reasons. Firstly the low drinking ages is countries in Europe (Germany and Italy for examples) and their low problems with achoal related incidents (drunk driving, intoxication, binging of achoal, and public drunkness) suggests that with a low drinking age people do not care as much about doing something that they could do their whole life. In the U.S you cant drink or smoke or do many things until you reach a certain age. Peer pressure and curiousness makes you do these things earlier or when you do finally reach the age where its legal you take off and do it right away. I have personally asked friends from Germany what its like to be able to drink and they tell me things like," Oh its nothing," or, "its not that fun". Another reason the drinking age should be lowered to 18 is you are considered an adult then. As an adult you can be persecuted, tried, can own your own home, and you can go and fight for your country in war, but you cant sit down at a bar and drink beer??! (Tangent) I mean if your not an adult at 18 raise all other things (smoking, army, colledge, things like that) to 21 when you are actually considered to be a full adult with the ability to do things. My final reason of lowering the drinking age is that it could stop the illegal things going on with achaol realated prodcts. Evidence of this method working is in the gun control bans. Back in the 1970's and 1980's government banned the use of handguns. Within the next 5 years gun viloence had nearly tripled along with gang vilonce (the times of the mob). So if gun vilonce tripled when it was banned, achoal realated things would most likely increase if they age is increased, and there would be less problems if the age was decreased. In conclusion I think the drinking age should be lowered because in European countries there arent drinking problems and they have a very low ages (child aged), cause you can go to war but cant sit at a bar and drink, and cause if we lowered the drinking age less illegal things would be going on with acohaol.

Adam of IA 9:48AM May 25, 2011