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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Horrible bill. I support safe, monitored drinking by 18-21 year olds in an appropriate environment. The idea that a 20 year old can serve in the military or buy a gun but not drink a beer is ludicrous.[/quote]

What are ways to keep it safe? Limit the # of drinks? Provide transportation?

I'd prefer that my kids learn how to drink moderately BEFORE college so they don't go nuts their freshman year with some forbidden fruit. [/quote]
and that's fine if you want to teach *your* child this, in *your* home.  That law doesn't apply to parents serving alcohol to their own kids only in their own home.  But, you don't  have a right to serve the alcohol to other kids.  That's the point  of this law.[/quote]

The points of this bill are

a. to add jail time as a possible sentence for anybody 21 or older who provides alcohol in their home to anybody 20 or younger .
b. to make people feel better who think that two counts of $2,500 each were not sufficient punishment for the man in Gaithersburg at whose house the three teenagers were drinking before the fatal car crash.[/quote]

So you are saying a Dad that let twenty plus 16-18yrs old get wasted on beer and vodka shots, and then tell his daughter to tell everyone to go home should not be liable for anything but a $5000 fine?  The kids in the car accident weren't the only ones who drove home drunk that night.  They were all told to leave after drinking for over 3 hours.  When the police arrived at the house scene, there were still drunk kids in the lawn and leaving in cars - with the Dad inside watching a movie.  And since then, there have been over 20 parties under-age drinking parties busted with parents hosting.  They are just the ones that were caught.  It is not a one time issue.  This happens all the time.  Parents acting as friends.

How about the Sherwood boy who was sentenced to 18yrs for killing a fellow classmate after driving away from an underage drinking party at a high schooler's house.  The thought at that time was to be able to prosecute the parents even if they are not home.  Would you rather have that bill passed?  [/quote]

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