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Originally Posted by Drakej
I knew that this argument would be brought up 
Now what is the biggest difference between drinking at age 18 and learning to fire weapons and handling heavy equipment full of explosives?
Training and oversight. When you turned 21 did you have to spend week after week training before you got to even touch a beer? What about having a CO standing over you 98% of the time making sure you don't drop the ball?
As for the voting aspect, this is pretty much a non issue because I think we all know or know of someone that votes out of their *** any way so it really does not matter.
At this point in Americas societal evolution I do not think that teen's cannot fully handle the responsibility of being able to drink. Drinking carry's to much of a stigma in this country. Now places such as Germany and such have embraced beer and liquor so there is not as much of a stigma associated with it making it just an every day thing. |
So, you're saying teens can fully handle the responsibility of being able to drink (the double negatives cancel each other out).
The real difference between trusting a teen with alcohol and trusting him with a missile launcher and other military weaponry is that the weaponry doesn't make him inebriated.
These damned leftists want to give teens the right to drink and do all kinds of other things but they still want the parents to be held liable for when these teens screw up, to be responsible for paying these kids' way through college, and to pay child support and health insurance for them until they're 25. Make up your minds, leftists, are they children or are they adults?
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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
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