18 is plenty...probably too much. I actually joined the Marine Corps (signed the papers) at 16, went to bootcamp at 17 (after my parents signed the consent papers and I graduated high school) and had a gun, badge, handcuffs and a patrol car when I was 18. Besides being a police officer representing the USA in a foreign country at that age, I was also supposed to be ready at any time to fight for the country in a war.
In Okinawa, I could drink. Hell, we had beer vending machines in the barracks. One year later, I'm 19 and rotate to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and all of a sudden, I can't drink again, can't get into some clubs and somehow I'm less of an adult because I'm back in the overly letigious US of "I'll fucking sue you" A.
What I think is, raise the driving age to 18, lower the drinking age to 18 and make weed legal. Everybody gets lower car insurance, the increased tax income from alcohol and weed pay for national health care and restore social security and everybody wins.
Until that happens, I'll fight with every ounce in me to keep the goddamned government away from our business in every way, including this one. Fucking mother*&*w2...don't even get me started....
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