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Originally Posted by Ross
This is what I don't understand with the USA. You can get married and own a gun at 16 but can't have an alcoholic drink at your own wedding to celebrate. You have to wait 5 years. The rest of the world is 18 for the most part, around the time you are done High School or in your first year of College/University. Perfect time to be legal to drink alcohol, you already made massive life decisions, I think you can handle some booze.
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The legal age to drink alcohol was reduced to 18 and was raised back to 21 when drinking and driving deaths/injuries increased to what was determined to be unacceptable.