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Robert Munoz <munoz@law.met> wrote:

>Matt Walcoff wrote:
>> 
>> Now come on; the way to changing a law is not through violence. All
>> that would do is "prove" to conservatives that young people are
>> immature by nature.
>> 
>> Drinking-age reform proponents need not resort to violence because we
>> have the facts on our side. The drinking age is hypocritical,
>> unenforcable, counterproductive and segregatory. What we need to do is
>> to organize young people at high schools and colleges around the
>> region to push for policy alternatives that would favor
>> responsibility. We also have to spread the word about the true effects
>> of the law. All most people hear is government/MADD propaganda.
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
>> Luke Kuhn <Lkuhn@overthrow.com> wrote:


>WRONG! It is very enforceable. Try driving around the Beltway drunk and
>I guarantee you'll be pulled over and arrested. Go ahead, try it!

I didn't say laws against drunk driving are unenforcable. I said the
*drinking age* is unenforceable. In a country where most people can
buy alcohol, it is inevitable that young people will get their hands
on it. All the drinking age does is determine where they get it and
when.

Our laws should recognize the inevitability of teenage alcohol use and
seek to reduce the harm caused by that use, instead of unrealistically
clinging to a no-use dogma.

Matt 


>Robert