This law would have saved me from getting a ticket while on leave from the Navy I was given a ticket for underage consumption 1 month befor I turned 21 in Kent. Kids are going to drink at 18 and younger not much you can do about it. Just say no did not work. To those that do not support the war, have you been to the middle east? if you can not afford to go. Take a road trip to Detroit and you will see why we must fight this war. The next time you see Ed Bargerstock by him a beer. I almost forgot to thank the owner of the now closed JB"S Bustop in kent for knocking out Lenny Soboro for me when he Made a big fuss about me being in a bar and was under 21 HA HA LENNY proably not the last time you get lit up!!

IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO FIGHT AND DIE FOR THIS COUNTRY YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK,

IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO FIGHT AND DIE FOR THIS COUNTRY YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO DRINK,

18 years old plus alcohol plus whatever other substance they can get ahold of plus driving a car equals unsafe roads equals skyrocketing death tolls. Each year over 25,000 people die on our roads from alcohol related deaths. Do we need to add to that amount.

As far as the weapons statement. Let em drink? Yet they can't smoke. Freedoms? Guys who fought in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq and other skirmishes can't even do one of the only things they enjoy. Smoke and have a friggin' beer with their comrades in arms. What do they do now, stay home and drink, alone. I am connected to this business, I know.

If you want to look at a grisly statistic. It is 25 times safer to be fighting in Iraq than to drive on our own streets due to drunk driving. Average of 1000 deaths per year in Iraq per year, 26,000 deaths on our highways per year due to alcohol alone. I was talking to a friend and maybe we could let soldiers with id's drink in the military clubs, I think that's a good idea, they earned that right by fighting for our freedom. But to give the general 18 year old public the right to drink...no way. To immature, to spoiled. They are different than us when we were young. "Have you seen the Girls Gone Wild" commercials. Those are fact not fiction.

What is Mr Bargerstock's background and what is his true motive? Does he own a bar? Maybe he is an insurance saleman, he can make more cash selling insurance when it skyrockets due to increased risk and death tolls on our roads. Is he a lawyer? Maybe he wants to represent the hundreds more DUI's that will result from this. It would mean millions of dollars going into our budget and lawyers pockets each year. (Especially the way they are charging people with these offenses now days. I'm sure they see all of these drunk walkers and it makes them froth at the mouth) Believe me there is a deeper reason he and our city's government wants to lower the drinking age other than to be protect and be nice to the incoming freshman students and you can bet it has to do with money.

I like how in typical politician fashion he resorts to the ravages of drinking unsupervised in a bar. Rapes, assaults, a breeding ground of debauchery. How's this quote, "i see no reason why they can't learn to use alcohol properly" HEY ED!!! MOST ADULTS CAN"T USE IT RESPONSIBLY. We couldn't do it when we were young! Go to a bar and see how people 23 and younger act when they drink. Fights, arguments, girls and guys taking clothes off on the dance floor and having sex in the bathrooms. Been there, seen it. They drink more faster and want to get drunker. Now let's let high school kids do it.

If you want to see the dance floors fill up, help us modify the smoking law to allow bars to have smoking after 9:00. Watch them fill up again. The smoking ban is killing our bars and costing us jobs. Just ask any owner.

Also is this one of the most important issues we need to have dealt with in Kent?

Just my opinion.

I feel that if they can go into a branch of the service and serve their country when they are 18 years old, they should be able to drink beer. Why not let the bars have their patrons. Most of the time when people go to bars they have a designated driver, if they are smart.

Myself I hardly drink at all, maybe on New Years or my anniversary. I would rather have these young adults be in a controled environment then walking around on the streets. Especially in Kent, with the May day parties.

When my children hit the age of 18 and they want to drink I think that is up to them. I would rather them not drink, but it will be their choice. I would rather them drink in a controlled environment then at someones house where there is no type of system to say your cut off or you have had enough.

Making theft and assault legal would reduce crime rates too. Let's make everything legal, we'll have the lowest crime rates in the world!
Have you been around an 18 year old lately? They're not as mature and responsible as an 18 year old was 20 years ago. Kids are different now-a-days.

For all you hall monitors who don't want this drinking law changed, this just into the news room: They are drinking now and its in their cars on back roads. There's something about making it legal that takes the novelty out of it too.

Allowing 18 drinking age will bring back commerce and Bars will actually have dance floors again. Kids will have a place to go have fun... OH MY GOSH! We better not do that because someone might have fun and we may even see them smile.... Do we really want to go back to the days when kids were allowed to have fun again?

This is the first lawmaker I have seen in a while attempting to give people their rights back instead of banning things. Ohio still can't bring itself to raise the speed limit to 70 like a real free State. I guess that would make the tail light chasers like the Highway Patrol unhappy. So my guess is that they won't pass it... But good try anyway...

I'm sure MADD would be a supporter of this...Not. In one way I agree, they can go to war, fight and carry a gun but not allowed to drink beer. Back when we were l8 and allowed to drink the beer for the l8 - 2l's year olds was 3.2 percent alcohol vs 7% alcohold. I just don't know if on a state and federal level people are ready to go back to that again.