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misskitti7®
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good idea but then the boot leg beer makes would have a field day
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Rockvillerich
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Only if you want to make criminals selling alcohol rich. |
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The Wraith of God Is Coming ©
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It won't work! |
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Joy M
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Easier said than done. All it would do is create an underground economy for alcohol, which could potentially make the situation worse. Remember the Prohibition Act in the US during the 1920s. They repealed it in 1933 because it just didn't work.
I honestly don't think even a temporary ban would work. And what exactly would they do to curb underage drinking if there's "no drinking at all"? Bring in analysts and experts to look at the issue? Try to figure out the sources? Half the time, the source is an older sibling or other family member or an apathetic bartender or bouncer. That's not going to go away with a temporary ban. It would be the same when the ban was lifted. |
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zambookigirl
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Prohibition doesn't work. It was a complete failure in America and spurred organized crime. |
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Tiffy.
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No, that's too silly
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onatea
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no, parents should care for their children and keep them away from alcohol.. the underage is a small percentage of the population, to take that privelege away from everyone else is nonsense.
people that think like you are the reason kids do **** like that, because you take everything away that's fun. the generation before us was out of hand and the generation before them was always saying "oh these kids are crazy"
now when that generation is old and our generation is coming up they're gonna be saying "these kids are so damn boring"
life is meant to be lived, the fact that more and more rules keep being added is what creates chaos. they drink underage because it's rebellious, that's what teenage angst is, they'll do whatever it is they can't just to make a point, the more rules people add the worse it will get.
and the prohibition act of 1920 only put cash in the hands of gangsters who profited off of speakeasy's and bribed the police etc. it's not a good idea. |
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Deluca
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Sounds like our Prohibition era.
I think it would be very hard, and people are always going to be able to find a way to drink, even if it is banned. |
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Athena
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Now, now, we banned alcohol in the US nationwide, and we didn't get any of our problems fixed, we just had a bunch of rednecks making moonshine, and city people having underground speak easies, and making this really bad stuff in bathtubs. Banning things won't make any difference, we just need to be more attentive and strict with children. |
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R O to the D
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NO. sort out your under age drinking issue by making it more difficult to sell liquor to minors and make the crime of possetion of liquor/sale to minors higher...
Prohibition is a joke and will never work in the U.K.. |
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Big Bad Boris Mayor of London
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No that would be silly and unworkable |
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Sean
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If you ban alcohol in the Uk people with riot and a lot will happen. Look everywhere kids can get alcohol. Here in America its really simple. Some kid has connection and then his friends get it from him and so on down the line. In some clutures teenagers are encouraged to drink alcohol. So there really no way to stop it. |
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S A
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Well thats never going to happen is it, so you shouldnt trouble yourself even thinking about that possibility. |
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Mustafa Leek
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I think the Stinking Labour Party has out priced alcohol already, and is only one step away from banning it.
The biggest issue is lousy parents (usually Labour supporters on benefits), who can't control their kids, and who are to blame for underage drinking. |
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Luli
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So - you want to punish everyone because *some* parents don't keep tabs on their kids or care?
I think not.
I think that the parents should be more directly responsible legally. If someone under 18 is drinking, the police should take them home and give the parents a court summons.
If a child beats someone to death, the parent should get half of the sentence.
Parents saying that "they can't" control their kids - they simply cannot be bothered.
They would do if they were held responsible. |
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Xaldin!
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i think banning alcohol would make kids want it more.
they think drugs are cool, so theyre obv gonna think theyre so much better if they have alcohol when its illegal.
its kids, i dont think theres going to be a way to stop underage drinking tbh
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confused blonde!
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no i think its d culture that has to change, the problem lies with the parents and school system. plus you cant ban alcohol thats just mean!!!! |
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schlosky_deli
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Be serious, that would never happen. |
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♥aly♥
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No that would be silly. How does "welfare of our children" translate to drinking age unless you have a 10 year old with some JD in his sippy cup. Legal drinking age should be the same as legal adult age.
Just because the age is currently being debated doesn't mean we should stop those 30, 40,.... 90 year olds from having there pint after work! |
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Peter Gabriel
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oh my god
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
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sh1tshockhorror
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no! i believe in a little thing called freedom of choice - there are plenty of other things they can do to combat underage drinking and besides the government get so much from tax on alcohol that theyd never do that |
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Frank N Furter
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The problem with this "think of the children!" attitude is that in the end, we just end up keeping them so sheltered, that when they do become adults they don't know how to handle it. Children learn to be proper adults by being exposed to adult things. Underage drinking is not the fault of the alchohol or the makers, but of a society that does not respect responsible people and instead sensationalizes people who are boozing and drugging.
Prohibition would only turn 90% of currently legal drinkers into criminals and open up a new black market. |
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zon moy
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perhaps you need to get rid of the laws banning underage drinking. |
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Peter K
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I'm thinking that we should ban all toxic things proven to be harmful including:
Alcohol
Tobacco
Pop Tarts
Dale Winton |
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vx
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Nope, since ganja is illegal in the UK, yet that doesn't stop teenage neds/chavs from toking, so how the hell would a booze ban make any difference?
PS Let me know how it goes, so I know whether I should set up my own still and wine/beer making apparatus (could hit the big time running a speakeasy like they did in the prohibition!) |
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irish_indian_fantasy
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I don't live in the UK, but my son traveled there a few years ago. At the time he was 18 years old, and was shocked at how many 'kids' were drinking. Here in the states the legal drinking age is 21 years old. Over there it is what...16 or 17? I can't remember. But the friends that my son stayed with drank constantly, day and night! I personally find that to be horrifying! The number of alcoholics shoots up every year, and it's a tragic thought that in the UK those numbers could be the children! Banning alcohol will not solve the problem. They will just go somewhere else to get it. We have what is called 'Dry Counties' in a lot of the southern states here, but they just cross the lines and get it anyway. Do as we do here, raise the legal drinking age, before selling it to anyone, they must provide picture (legal) identification. With that being said, those underage drinkers will still find a way to get the alcohol if they really want it, but it would cut it way back. And possibly save a few lives too. |
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Tom1999
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It's been tried - did'nt work in America - won't work here. |
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doc z
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What Dawn Wells and Rockville said!
Legislating people's live for their own good is not the function of government. When they try it, it always backfires. We're not children, and that's the point...we'll find a workaround.
The approach to take is to find out why kids drink alcohol, and try to deal with the causes. More after school programs, better schools and teachers...(you get those by paying teachers better).
It's always easier to steer a big force than to stop it. Imagine a wall of mud coming down the street; you can divert it with well-placed walls into a field, or you can try to stop it with a wall and it will squirt out in all directions. Or you can find out where all that mud is coming from, and stop that.
Social forces work the same way, conforming to the laws of hydrodynamics.
So, no. Sort out the issue and you will know how to , or if you can, deal with it. |
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