🚀 go-pugleaf

slush wrote:
> 
> In article <6j1ugu$gn8@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu>, merrell@eng.umd.edu
> (Brian C. Merrell) wrote:
> >While it may a predictable response, I must agree that the law is somewhat
> >unjust.  It *is* one group forcing a law upon another without making it
> >apply to itself, it *is* rather silly, and it *is* rather ridiculous
> >that legislators (who are all over 30; never trust anyone over 30 :) can
> >arbitrarily say that people from 18 to 20 (who can vote for our national
> >leaders and go to war) cannot make responsible decisions about alcohol.
> 
> I think it's odd that Texas is trying to push back the age for juvenile
> death penalties to 12.  In the rest of the country, youths as young as 16
> can receive the death sentance.  I'm not sure why culpability for life and
> death decisions starts at 16, yet the government feels that people under
> 21 can't act responsibly enough to go have a beer.


Because they proven themselves to be irresponsible with alcohol in their
blood. Too many DWI's and related deaths. 

We now have a problem with *adult* DWI offenders, and you want to lower
the age? Gotta be kiddin'.....

Robert