Why is the american age requirement for alcohol 21?

Why is the american age requirement for alcohol 21?

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Lots of foreign kids getting played into partying at uni by “chad”

Not our fault

Because yanks are weak, nigger kneeling, BBC gargling, muttoid cuuuuuuuuunts

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Because they did it as a test to see if it would reduce drunk driving accidents. It turns out it reduced it greatly, and so state by state the age was increased to 21. Until Reagan changed it on a federal level so every state had to change it.

There was scientific evidence that raising the legal drinking age greatly reduces the fatality rate from car accidents. I thought you yuragutangs were all about the nanny state

Too much drinking and driving that caused the federal government to suspend funding for states until they raised the drinking age to 21.

Reagan was such a cunt holy shit

Used to be 18 but Nancy Reagan hated fun.

There was a mensurable difference in the rates of drunk driving accidents and fatalities with a legal drinking age of 18 vs 21 and so it was changed.

Congress/Reagan/Clinton. States faced a reduction in highway funding if they didn't raise their drinking age.

good thing of america... should do the same in the netherlands
alcohol is bad for u and damages your brain so much

Women, feminists to be exact. They also unironically want to increase the legal age for sex to be at least 21 years old. If they had their way they would probably make it illegal to have sex before the age of 35

this, thank god men will never stop having sex with little girls

I always assumed it was just a middle ground we ended up with since at one point alcohol was prohibited.

There is no good reason. Our alcohol laws are totally bizarre. I can only guess they’re the result of puritan origins that never changed and market interests. As if the age thing isn’t bad enough there are a million rules about who can sell what when and where. It’s all slowly changing. Most don’t really consider it a priority since underage drinking is so common anyway but it probably should be. The big issue is drinking and driving.

I know. Their perceptions on these things are so bizarre to me.

they're all late bloomers

>Nancy Reagan
>Feminist

the age to purchase alcohol is 21, but you can consume alcohol within the home at any age with parent's permission

The Netherlands once changed the legal drinking age from 16 to 18 around 2010. It was a pretty odd thing because no political party campaigned on it and it wasn't something the public really asked for.

>weewoo drinking cool
Drinking is for the people who can't be intimate sober. Drinkers start turning into soggy ghouls by mid 20's.

Depends on the state. Consumption under 21 is totally illegal in my state. Alcohol citations from breathalyzers were a common occurrence on my campus.

Zig Forums is full of muh depression need muh beers losers

people keep crashing due to drunk driving

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but they didnt consider to introdice real punishment for drunk driving and leave the innocent 18 year olds be?

yes

Reagans perverted the party into something unrecognizable. Trump was voted in to change it again. Maybe to change it back to being paleo-conservative, but at least anything other then neocon.

Drunk driving is actually a huge problem

fusionism was a mistake

cuck

Fuck you. How would you like it if your friends and family died in a drunk driving accident?

Americans are stupid. Cannot even be trusted to drive manual cars.

stop giving cars to 16yos you fucking retards

>If they had their way they would probably make it illegal to have sex before the age of 35

Finally something the left and right can agree on

explain to me dry counties