There has been a lot of deciding on whether or not to lower the drinking age. Some people believe that the drinking age should stay the same. They think it’s a bad idea to lower the age if people know that more lives are being saved by having the drinking age at 21. Many other people think it should be lowered to 18 because there are many underage drinkers and if it is lowered they can prevent that. I think that there are better reasons that the drinking age should remain at 21 than there are for lowering it.

The first reason I believe the drinking age should be kept at 21 is because it will save more lives. If you allow younger people to drink they will probably do dumb things and just by getting in their car after one drink they put themselves and others in danger, even though they may thing that they have everything under control. There are already so many drunk drivers out there by lowering the drinking age it will only be putting more people in danger. Drunk drivers can not only harm or kill themselves but they can also harm others.  In this article I read it stated that The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that leaving the drinking age at 21 will save about 800 lives.  It’s simple would you rather have more or less people die? I personally would like more people to alive than dead by an alcohol related situation. I don’t knowing that innocent people would be killed because people are allowed the chance to make a stupid decision.

The second reason I think the driving age should stay at 21 is because there is nothing wrong with it now, it’s not broken. I think it is stupid for people to put their time and money into this when there is nothing wrong with it.  I don’t understand what is wrong with people, it is fine the way it is but yea we should totally go waste are time and money so more people can die.  It’s like someone saying I’m going to go get my appendix removed; there is nothing wrong with it I just want to waste my money and the surgeons’ time. It’s already been proven that more people died from an alcohol related situation when the drinking age was at 18 and there is less death by having the drinking age at 21.

I think that it would be better to leave the drinking age as it is. Some people think it should be lowered because if people take a class they will learn how to control themselves. People would be forced to take that class if they wanted to legally be allowed to drink, that doesn’t mean that they are going to listen and actually learn anything. Even if they do pay attention there is a good chance that once they start drinking they won’t be able to control themselves. They say they’re going to drink one beer then they get another and another, and eventually move on to stronger types of alcohol. They won’t know what they are doing and probably won’t remember what they did.  Not many people can control themselves when they drink because they are drinking to have fun so they get wasted and sometimes do stupid things. So I don’t think that the driving age should be lowered to 18 I would like more people to be safe.

 Jasmine Walker1