Byrd's Eye View

Are you kidding? They are still kids even though they think they are adults. They are so dissrespectful when they are on the road its pathetic. They cut you off and then flip you off. How can they drive with a cell phone in one hand and a beer in the other. They are hardly old enough and responsible to drive, let alone drink. Kids nowdays have it all handed to them by their parents. Most have never worked for anything or had chores to do etc. and we want to hand them a 40oz? I don't think so. Why don't we give them a handgun also? Then that will make it complete and they can feel like a real man. That's just opening up a 5 gallon bucket of worms. 18 years old are not responsible enough to drink, and most of the 21 year olds aren't either.

I am just appalled at who came up with that idea. It had to be some politcal drunk, maybe like Ted Kennedy.

Lower the drinking age? Then what? The gov't takes the power from the parents & gives it to the child, children are killing parents,siblings, etc everyday & when you legally give permission to a child to drink & they kill someone "society" says "Ah, what a shame, he/she is only 18 so we sometimes lock them up & think "reform" jail time usually only makes one worse, lowering the drinking age will only make a child more irresponsible, more disrespectable & they are legally given a "tool" for murder.
Randolph Co is a dry county, where do you think these kids will go for alcohol? Why place more drunk drivers on our roads?
Do we forget we were 18 one time?
There's an old saying that goes like this "If it isn't broke, don't fix it"

Lower the drinking age? You gotta be kidding! Kids these days, most of them are more disrespectful and irresponsible than ever. Letting them drink would be even more irresponsible. It seems to me that no one cares about raising their kids right anymore. Lets just let them go. Who cares. This is what it seems that people are doing. I care though. Drinking causes so much damage. It not only harms the individual but everyone around them. As for the remark made....Letting kids drink helps them to become responsible adults. WHAT AN IDIOT!!!!! It only creates disaster and younger alcoholics. Kudos to the Fox 8 four this morning for your comments on this. I agree with you. If commercials and everyone would not glorify and make drinking look fun maybe more kids would not be so quick to drink anyway. There needs to be advertisements on drinking just like the smoking adds you see on TV. If it does not look fun or appealing to kids they may not be so quick to do it. It starts with parents and follow up with advertisements.

I am a Senior Citizen and like Cindy said, we were more responsible back in the day than kids are now. I had a BB gun when I was 8 years old. My dad taught me how to shoot it and be careful with it. Wouid I give a 15 year old a BB gun today? That's just asking for it. Are you kidding. Kids nowdays are just plain mean and dissrespectful to his parents and teachers and anyone that is older.BOTTOM LINE, THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH EVEN TO DRIVE, LET ALONE DRINK. THAT'S MY STORY AND I'M STICKING TO IT.

I'm talking GROWN people who should know better or someone should have taken their keys and called them a cab.

We ALL need to be more aware of the dangers of drinking and driving, don't just put it off on teens being irresponsible.

Just a few reminders of how to keep from drinking and driving...

Designated Driver
Taxi CAB
Drunk Bus (something they do on college campuses)
Call your momma (what I will tell my kids to do)because I would rather get out of bed at 2am to go pick them up from a party than to have to go down to the morgue and identify them

This is a scary topic...especially for parents. I'm not sure that I would be excited about the age being lifted but I will certainly not act like they won't do it just because the legal age is 21.

I'll probably get some flack for this posting, but we can't just think that the law is going to protect us...it does start at home.

It's a community problem being that all people in the community who serve alcohol, restaurants, bars, grocery stores, mini-marts etc. need to stop serving or selling to minors. Also they need to stop serving to people who are legal and smell to the high heavens of alcohol.

So what if I drink now and then, I don't think it is a moral issue but we live in the belt and so there are plenty of people who disagree with me. And yes, I have heard of people admitting to having problems...it is called AA.

I think there are more people ignoring the problem by the way. People who would rather condemn people who drink and just refuse to talk about it to their kids.

I am not smoothing over the problem, just talking about it...that's what this blog thing is for.

Most drinkers defend other drinkers and are against anything that has to do with changing the drinking laws. It's like cigarette smoking. Smoking has never killed anyone else other than the smoker. Drunk drivers has killed thousands of innocent people that didn't have a chance to live out teir life naturally, because someGROWN drunk was driving and killed them. And if you have money you can get it reduced and plea bargain for a few month in prison and community time. Sure teens are going to get it if they want it. Or someone will get if for them. Why make it legal. Why does alcohol have to be served at all these teen parties? What is the point of drinking anyway? To get a buzz? Tell me all the good points of drinking and I can give more reason why you should not drink.

Although I agree that most are not mature or responsible enough, I feel that if our 18 year old children are able to join our Armed Forces they should be able to drink. Contradictory to that statement, I don't feel that they are mature or responsible enough to drink at 18 in the civilian world but also that we as parents should be teaching our children responsibility in ALL aspects of life, including drinking alcohol.
Barbara/Asheboro

To lilsumpthins,
I AGREE!!!!

MsKittyKitty,
I agree that you can have fun without drinking but it has taken my years of experience to realize it. I'm sure that I'm not the only one that has learned the hard way. I also know a lot of alcoholics who HAVE admitted that drinking is a problem for them and they are doing something about it. But although some drink-----that DOES NOT make them an alcoholic. Some of us are allergic to drinking and some are not.