"Most of your avid drunks are already drunks before they turn 21 anyways."- you don't have to be an avid drunk to get drunk.
"you're really over-exaggerating the effects of alcohol"- should I not be concerned with alcohol-related accidents?
"But hey. Let's not give the people who are dying for us the right to blow off some steam."- let me get this straight, you want to give the people with guns more alcohol?
"Do you think alcohol should be banned? Because you should have just said that in the first place. If not, then your statement doesn't really have that much weight."- alcohol shouldn't be banned but it also can't not be controlled. I rather it not exist in the first place, but since its already had contact with the public, there is no way to stop it. People may want it, but does that mean they should have it? Of course not.
"It won't make the country a more dangerous place. Really. It won't."- so when more people drink, the amount of car accidents related to alcohol won't increase? Washington Post: "It has become accepted wisdom in the United States over two decades that raising the drinking age has reduced alcohol-related traffic deaths. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration estimates the number of lives saved since 1975 at 23,000. Alcohol remains a leading cause of traffic deaths for young people. Nearly a third of the 3,657 drivers age 15 to 20 who died in car crashes in 2003 had been drinking, the agency found."
"European countries seem to handle it just fine."- not really, ---->"More than 1 in 4 traffic accident deaths on EU roads is caused by drink-driving."