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Article #193Re: Cops in the bars, from Diamondback newspaper
From: Rob Rodgers
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:00
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mwalcoff@wam.umd.edu (Matt Walcoff) wrote: >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. "They can do it, so why have laws against it?"? >All the drinking age does is determine where they get it and when. And whether they're so interested in getting plastered that they'll break the law. Exactly.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f9144,78a23a71dde3797a X-Google-Attributes: gidf9144,public X-Google-Thread: f4d80,51ee76d0e6a1d86c X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d80,public X-Google-Thread: 101cd0,78a23a71dde3797a X-Google-Attributes: gid101cd0,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,78a23a71dde3797a X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Rob Rodgers) Subject: Re: Cops in the bars, from Diamondback newspaper Date: 1998/05/11 Message-ID: <35571e27.1153046@news.wam.umd.edu> X-Deja-AN: 352279851 References: <6ivo94$9ou@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.95q.980509132018.11477A-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> <3554CECA.3756@overthrow.com> <6j2ubm$jv0@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> <35561B31.2085@law.met> <6j69aa$471@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> Summary: more wisdom of the ages Reply-To: knave@acm.org Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Newsgroups: um.general,alt.politics.drinking-age,dc.general,alt.law-enforcement