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From: "Bob Sullivan"
Subject: Re: Very OT: Regulations for drinking alcohol
Hey Bob, what's the gratuitous shot at us for Prohibition in the '20's?!!
Wow, that's a long time to hold a grudge!
And yes, we've all done underage drinking and underage drunk.
But until you've raised three teenagers, don't presume you know how.
No matter what you do and what they know, it's a treacherous time.
Each child matures at a different pace.
And bringing traffic accidents into this discussion is perfectly logical.
90% of the kids in the USA have access to a car.
For most of them, it's their first experience at freedom.
When that's mixed with alcohol, the results are tragic.
(It's not their skills Bill, it's their recklessness via booze.)
It's a leading cause of death for teens.
It's Bill, actually, and no, I'm not implying a grudge.
Saskatoon, just a couple of hours from me has Temperance St.
My point was that this sort of thing doesn't work.
Tried and failed was the point, not where it happened.
Take this for what it's worth, coming from someone who has never raised a
child, but to me, it would seem that it would be better to have your kid
falling down drunk with his friends in the TV room than at a bush party that
he is going to drive home from.
By instilling a prohibition, we force what they are going to do anyway into
the worst possible way of doing it.
William Robb
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