Average college students spend their weekends involved in some sort of social scene. Nine times out of ten these social activities will involve drinking. We do not see much wrong with so-called underage drinking because we can do so many other things at age eighteen that require much more responsibility. For example, at eighteen, I could get shipped overseas, and take a bullet for my country, but I cannot toast with my family before I leave. I can vote, be a parent, get married, serve in the armed forces, and run for local political offices but still no drinking. I believe it takes ten times as much responsibility to raise a family than it does to drink a beer.
             It has been proven over the years that underage drinking occurs mostly because of the excitement involved in breaking laws. When I hit the age of twenty-one, drinking will not be as exciting because it is legal, and the rush involved in breaking the law disappears. There's no allure to drinking anymore. There's no drama, no excitement, no tension, and no fear. Now it is only alcohol.
             The second comes from a parent's point of view. In many states drinking with parental consent is legal. For instance, here in Oxford, I can go Uptown to the bars and order drinks as if I were twenty-one, just as long as my dad or mom stays within viewing distance. Parents generally accept this law because it allows them to have control over their child's drinking. Most parents, however, disagree with dropping the age limit to eighteen because that means that seniors in high school can buy alcohol legally. As you know high school kids, cars and alcohol do not exactly mix well.
             The third comes from the government and how they have created these drinking age laws. Congress passed the National Minimum Purchase Age Act in 1984. This law was passed to encourage each state to change its legal drinking age from eighteen to twenty-one years of age. Congress believed that if they rais...