Reply To: If you can go to war at 18, you should be able to drink at 18

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August 2, 2017 7:34 pm at 7:34 pm #1331125
DovidBT
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mentsch1:

I speak from personal experience. During the initial training, recruits’ activities are highly restricted. There might be enough free time to go to the base PX for a beer, but not enough time to get in trouble. And recruits certainly don’t get to carry around loaded weapons unsupervised.

Besides you’re mixing the analogy. My point was that military recruits are not simply handed a weapon and given free rein to use it as they wish, unlike alcohol.