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Thread: Minimum drinking age of 21 saves lives, study finds

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    Lets face it they are more likely to introduce a big fat TAX on under 21 year old drivers than to raise the age.

    Taxing voters is the only thing this government understands.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Lobster View Post
    How many 'youths' die in alcohol related crashes anyway?
    Ah yeah quite a few do. And if they are not killed in the actual car, they are run over outside a party by one.. or fall into a river and drown, or get into a fight and get knifed, or...

    Teens + Alcohol - Supervision = Death.

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    Wouldn't:

    Teens + Alcohol - (Supervision or sense of responsibility) = Death.

    be more accurate? I got pissed in my youth shit loads of times. And I dare say a lot of people here did too. None of my friends died of anything to do with alcohol.. none of them did the drinking and driving thing.. etc.

    I pretty convinced it's not anything to do with alcohol, more to do with teenage attitudes to life these days that is the problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DangerousBastard View Post
    Ah yeah quite a few do. And if they are not killed in the actual car, they are run over outside a party by one.. or fall into a river and drown, or get into a fight and get knifed, or...

    Teens + Alcohol - Supervision = Death.

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    so a total ban on alcohol in the under 21 age group only gave a decrease of 11%? Is that a good figure? still 89% of fatalities by my reckoning.
    Its not the drinking thats killing them, its the drinking and driving.
    We need to eliminate that, and not just in that age group.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Lobster View Post
    How many 'youths' die in alcohol related crashes anyway?
    And how many would an 11% drop be? Double figures? I doubt it.

    And.. existing laws are adequate, if policed correctly.
    Yeah, I suppose its barely worth worrying about unless it can hit double figures eh. (idiot)
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    Sooo.. if the age that people were allowed to buy booze was higher, that wouldn't have happened?

    What nonsense. If youths want to buy booze, they will, whether it's legal or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Lobster View Post
    Sooo.. if the age that people were allowed to buy booze was higher, that wouldn't have happened?

    What nonsense. If youths want to buy booze, they will, whether it's legal or not.
    Only because our Policing is piss weak.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sidecar bob View Post
    Only because our Policing is piss weak.
    Exactly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Motig View Post
    Stop the pussy footing . Lets just raise the age to 80. That will stop the problem.
    Better yet, lets just outlaw it completely. It's worked for cannabis and other things Mummy doesn't want you to do. And, remember, Mummy always knows whats best for her children, who can't think on their own.
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    Increasing the drinking age to 21 may reduce accidents and deaths.

    Increasing the driving age to 21 would have the same effect.

    Banning motorcycles would be another very effective way of reducing accidents and death.
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    I reckon banning people over the age of 70 from driving would save more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sidecar bob View Post
    Only because our Policing is piss weak.
    Try doing something illegal in Singapore & see if you get away with it. (Yes, I have lived there)
    That's because NZ has become a crappy over-PC-and-everybody-has-got-rights namby-pamby country where they give you police but not the teeth or the autonomy...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Lobster View Post
    Sooo.. if the age that people were allowed to buy booze was higher, that wouldn't have happened?

    What nonsense. If youths want to buy booze, they will, whether it's legal or not.
    Sure - but when the age was 21 you didn't have bunches of drunken gobby 16 to 20 year olds standing around/driving around doiing what they wanted like the world owed them a living.

    The under 21s did drink, I know I did - but we did it a whole lot more discretely and ran for it if a cop car hove into sight.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scumdog View Post

    The under 21s did drink, I know I did - but we did it a whole lot more discretely and ran for it if a cop car hove into sight.
    Only because they'd tell your Mum & Dad. Now Mum & Dad get arrested or "cautioned" if they look at their kids wrong.
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