If you can be trusted with the most dangerous of weapons you should be able to drink. At eighteen we allow our citizens to enlist in the armed forces and operate tanks, machine guns, rocket-launchers, and all other manner of destructive forces, and of course the most deadly weapon of all; the vote.

If we trust our young people with explosive devices and the responsibility of choosing civil government, we can trust them to drink responsibly. Hell, they can't be any less responsible than the countless thousands of people 21 and over who die every year from alcohol poisoning or DUI crashes.

No beer, no enlistment, no vote.

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