At the age of eighteen, teens are allowed to enlist in the military, virtually putting their life on the line to defend our country. With this great responsibility, another questions continues to rise; if eighteen year olds are mature enough to sacrifice their lives for the country, shouldn’t they also be mature enough to drink at the age of 18? Michael Gonchar, an author of Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered? from the New York Times, wrote an objective article looking at both pros and cons of
say that you’re at a party with your friends and you guys are drinking, then you hear a police car; your first instinct is to run, but you’re too drunk to think or even move. Then the cops come and pick you up and you get in trouble. You know that you got caught drinking because you were underage and because your brain isn’t fully developed, so you couldn’t process as well as you should have, so at that moment you got caught drinking. Aren’t you so smart? So now I ask you, do you really want to be