There has always been controversy over whether the United States should lower the drinking age to 18. 18 year olds should have the right to drink. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen will give people supervision, teach responsibility, and eighteen year olds will already be considered adults; however, it can cause binge drinking, will lead to more deaths, and alcohol consumption damages brain cells and more importantly the body itself. Lowering the drinking age to eighteen would be helpful for supervision because drinkers will drink in public where everyone is watching them. Likewise, this will lead to drinkers drinking responsibly because they will have to follow the rules for drinking in public. Furthermore, they are already adults. Drinking should not be a crime, but just an activity that people normally do. The government is behaving like this: 21-year-olds are much more responsible than 18-year-olds, which there is no evidence to say so, and to top it off, only four years apart from each other, so the government is just doing a a lot of nonsense. It is not the age that determines the lowering of drinking age, but the person, especially the law will not stop anything because it all depends on the person who drinks. The government needs to look at the bigger picture of this issue on the law which should not be all based on age range because whatever your age may be the same for all other ages, people are all human beings! The government should not rule over the rights of citizens, isn't that why bills of rights were created? Even alcohol that does not enter the government body is consumed in the body of the citizen who drinks, as adults he has had the opportunity to take care of himself and no longer rely on it. The government that gives... middle of paper... should no longer allow 18 year olds. As adults let them do what they want! It's their bodies, life, especially decisions. Now it is up to the government to pass legislation to lower the drinking age to eighteen. Works Cited · G, Harold. “The drinking age should be lowered” 12 December 2013. Web· IAS, “Alcohol: Tax, Price and Public Health, Institute of Alcohol Studies” 13 March 2008. Network. accessed 03/08/11Medline Plus, “ Underage Drinking”. 08 January 2011. WebNIAAA, “Underage Drinking, why adolescents drink, what the risks are and how alcohol consumption by minors can be prevented, Alcohol Alert” January 2006, n.67. Web.ProCon.org is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity. “Should the drinking age be lowered from 21 to a younger age?” 22 February 2009 Web. 14 January 2014Sass, Regina. “Raising the drinking age to 21 saved over 23,000 lives” Jul 17. 2007. Network.