How can underage binge drinking be increasing? (sarcasm alert) I mean, it is illegal, therefore it should be decreasing, just like crime and drug use decrease when guns and drugs are outlawed.

I hate to sound cynical, (actually I don't) but it seems to me that rolling back the drinking age to 18 would eliminate all illegal 'underage' drinking in 18 to 20 year olds. Problem solved.

As for 'binge' drinkers, they are common among all age groups. If someone is a serious alcoholic, and has a problem with binge drinking, than they need professional help, no matter what their age bracket.

The idea that Socialists like Charles Rangel would send 18 year old boys* off to war against their will, yet still keep it illegal for them to consume an alcoholic beverage is unconscionable. What is so magic about the age of 21 any way? The idea that raising the drinking age from 18 to 21 'saves lives' sounds like a load of horse shit to me. Why not raise it to 40, or 70. How many lives will that save? Twenty-one sounds awfully arbitrary to me.

* Girls are currently not required to register with the selective service, and presumably would not be in danger of being drafted. But with wackos like Rangel, who knows?