Lowering the Drinking Age...DON'T DO IT!

In the debate on whether or not the drinking age should be lowered, I strongly believe it should not. Let's imagine the drinking age was lowered to, say, eighteen. I think that the government would want to be sure those individuals were responsible enough to handle that privilege given to them. From experience, many people my age are not responsible enough to turn in their homework, much less drink responsibly. Some people would argue that many eighteen year olds drink anyway, so why not make it legal, but then the government would just be enabling them to make stupid decisions. It is true that eighteen year olds are permitted to vote and go to war, but even those things bring up issues. From talking to people and knowing a ton of eighteen year olds, a majority of them don't research the political candidates enough to make a wise decision when voting. That seems to me to be showing that they don't really care, and that they're just stabbing in the dark. They sometimes just listen to their friends, and what they see on tv, which isn't always true. Also, some eighteen year olds that decide to join the army are doing it because they don't have the money to go to college or even just for the sign on bonus. Speaking as a young adult, these other actions show that eighteen year olds clearly are not responible enough have these privileges, so I don't think they should have another privilege added if they aren't ready.