RALEIGH, North Carolina — College presidents from about 100 of the best-known U.S. universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.

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This is partially what I said would happen when states like Georgia did their holy rolling communist foolishness and raised the drinking age. It is important for young people who are going to drink anyway to behave more adult (which they are) and be able to drink in social situations with more adult peers.

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Mothers Against Drunk Driving says lowering the drinking age would lead to more fatal car crashes. It accuses the presidents of misrepresenting science and looking for an easy way out of an inconvenient problem. MADD officials are even urging parents to think carefully about the safety of colleges whose presidents have signed on.

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No one supports drunk driving at any age. Did raising the drinking age actually reduce the number of drunk driving teens? Responsible driving as all responsible behavior comes from treating responsible people as adults and not as "you are stupid" children. The so called Mothers Against Drunk Driving aren't supporting responsible driving, they are supporting a type of prohibition that is largely ignored as that type of prohibition is historically always ignored. The people who work the closest with the age group being impacted know what is happening and being responsible educators they are speaking up against the Mothers Wanting to Keep Their Children in Diapers.