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Wow lady, not the PP but you want teens to drink but then no one can get a driver's license until age 22?  You are off your rocker! [/quote]

Why is this so off-the-rocker? It's drunk [b]driving[/b] that is the public health problem, right?[/quote]

No it is not.  It is an issue, even for people over 21 but that is not the point of this bill and you are going so far away from it to try and prove some strange point.

Anyway, so how will people get to school and work?  You do realize that not all teens and people under 21 drink?   Or do we expect all kids to live with their parents and have them drive them around until they are 22?  Many people under age 22 have full time jobs, kids, responsibilities.  Many that are not near public transportation.  Are they not allowed to drive because you want teens to be able to drink instead?  [/quote]

This bill exists because a high school student drove drunk and killed two of his friends. So yes, that is exactly the point of this bill.

As for how people would get to school and work -- well, they'd figure something out. Half of 18-year-olds don't have driver's licenses. The majority of 18-21-year-olds don't own cars. A driver's license at 16 is a US cultural assumption, not a fact of nature. I'm not the one who brought up drunk driving, but if drunk driving among 16-21-year-olds is the public health problem, then it's a lot more effective to stop 16-21-year-olds from driving than to try to stop 16-21-year-olds from drinking.

And if drunk driving among 16-21-year-olds is not the public health problem, then why is the drinking age 21 when the legal age for everything else is 18?[/quote]

So start fighting to raise the driving age to 22.  I mean all you are doing is complaining here non-stop.  We get it.  You are one person who doesn't like the bill.  But there is a petition that raised over 1000 votes in a few short days and a huge backing of the police force who are sick of parent hosted underage drinking parties.  It doesn't have to do with ONE party.  There have been 20 broken up since then.  You seem like you really want to rationalize what the Salzmann's did was okay but there are so many more that don't want their kids going to a house and having parents giving their kids alcohol. I am one of them. You are not.  End of story.

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/Web-2016/Bethesda-Area-Police-Commander-Threatens-Strong-Consequences-For-Underage-Drinking-Offenses/

http://www.mymcmedia.org/bethesda-police-commander-sends-underage-drinking-warning-to-residents/[/quote]

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