<p>I don’t think Wisconsin’s law - allowing a child to drink with the parent’s consent while the parent is present - is a “lowering of the drinking age” that demonstrates much of anything. I have some sympathy for the position that if a person is old enough to fight for the country, vote and be considered an adult for all other purposes, they’re old enough to drink. For me, though, the two biggest things are consistency and enforcement. I think the drinking age should be the same everywhere, whether it’s 18, 21 or something else. I was a teenager in Pennsylvania (drinking age 21) when the drinking age in New Jersey was 18, and I can attest to the dangers of that situation. Disparities in drinking ages between states encourage teens who aren’t old enough to drink in one state to travel to another, and this is a recipe for drunk driving. I also think enforcement should be tough. Drunk driving should be considered a serious crime, and punished as such, right from the first offense. Laws against serving minors should be consistently enforced, and with more than a slap on the wrist. If the law is going to be 21, then there shouldn’t be a culture of looking the other way on or near a college campus - if you’re not going to enforce it, then lower the age.</p>