Five yr vet. of the armed forces. The argument of "old enough to fight, old enough to drink" is being worn out. You want to be able to drink and now gamble at 18 ? show a military ID

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I live in Las VegasThe Las Vegas Casinos have tightened their machines down so far you hardly see anyone hit a Jacpot anymore, except fake staged wins to get the people to pump in more money, and the casinos wonder why the people have stopped coming or have slowed down their spending on top of the economic woes. Sure let the 18 to 21 adult gamble, it will teach they early to not gamble away their hard earned money in Casinos that offer the worst odds in the world.

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Thak god... we have all these bogus laws in place because the baby boomer generation abused their fun. And it was really hurting later generations; it put us in a society that treated all children like criminals. But it looks like it might change now, I'm not getting my hopes up but I'm not going to give my kid a world where the legal drinking age is 35

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i some what agree with Monica. the military does have a maturing effect on the youth. gambling does not. most do not get addicted to the military and if you all have not seen,read or heard. . . gambling is the number 1 addiction. you want to send a kid into that?
at 18 i did not even want to have to work. i did not have to while i was groing up. if i could have found away around it by gambling, i probably would have. glad it was not available to me.
and to Chelsea, if you get offended by someone speaking their opinion about man and woman in the military, then you should really hate the history of our country and many others. do not get offended, but go in and prove it wrong. not by getting wordy, but by your actions. although there is a difference. check your anatomy!

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Perhaps a spelling and grammar test is in order, based upon all of these comments. If you can spell and express yourself, you should be allowed to gambel at 18. If not you should go to war.

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The idea of dropping the legal gambling age to 18 is not only stupid, it's insidious ... sort of like having elected George Bush TWICE and look at the mess we're in! Any lawmaker who supports the idea of allowing children to gamble needs to be removed from office, post-haste! And if this idea is taken to the polls and it is voted in, I suggest that there be some type of 'tracking' device placed on that singular vote so that ALL the idiots who vote for the idea will automatically be accepting the responsibility for any and all debt and MISERY caused by such a stupid and insideous vote! That's all we need folks: eighteen year olds so in debt they won't have a dine to go to live or go to school on past graduation day! My God! Where are people's minds? Life IS NOT ONLY ABOUT MONEY, FOLKS, it's about living and developing one's mind and talents and learning to get along with and appreciate others and the world we live in! It's about making at least one's self a decent human being ... maybe even, heaven forbid the concept, I know ... making one's place in the world a little better than they found it! Give our children a break and RAISE the gambling age to about 75 ~ maybe 80! Or, perhaps, more fair: allow only those who HAVE money to gamble it: say, you have to be at least a millionaire with assets of at least $500,000,000 ... or higher before you can even sit down at a table of a machine! Works for me!

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And one more thing: for those who say, 'Well, if we can send our youth off to war, then they have a right to gamble!' Well, I've always thought that war would probably be pretty much stopped IF the legislatures (and PRESIDENTS) who support war were the ones who had to FIGHT the war's they start ~ or want to be a part of! So, along with that 'proposition' to lower the gambling age (on that next voting ballet we receive), I suggest that we also place a proposition that demands that those politicians who are ALL for war be the ones who leave their families and be sent off to 'do the dirty work of war' and leave the 18 year olds (and older!) here to take-care of things! They certainly can't do ANYTHING worse than the so-called 'adults' have done thus far! Look at the MESS we're in all around the world! Most of it caused by 'adults' who could give a dam less about ANYONE or ANYTHING but themselves! Kids couldn't possibly do any worse!

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That's hilarious! And very subtle.

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point: 18 yrs that are sent off to war were not drafted and forced to enter service. it was a personal decision.
people have their whole lives to mess their lives up. gambling i s also a personal decision, but why would LV want to make it easier for my generation? they just want our money and they don't give a shit about anything else. some rules,some fences should be left up. this is one of them. how dare that industry target my generation.

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Why don't we just give the 18 year olds guns and send them to war? Oh, that's right we already do. Old enough to kill and die but not old enough to make rational decisions.

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Why doesn't the state use some of its profit money from the casino"s and lottery to help the michigan people?? maybe they are just to greedy?????

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If an 18 year old is old enough to vote, old enough to get drafted or
join the armed services, why can't he or she gamble or be served
alcohol?

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I say lower the age to 18...let adults: eat, drink, smoke, gamble, fight in wars, drive, sue in court and be sued, and do whatever they want. At 18 you are an adult...live it up for tomorrow...we die!

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Im a small buisness owner, can i get a free handout like the rest of this country is?

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No. In a few months your gonna have to share your wealth with me! GIMMEGIMMEGIMME!!!

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Truth be told, Vegas basically strives to get the young $$$ now. The clubs and such are for those under 30 pretty much with us old farts no longer welcome in what used to be called nightclubs. We over 45 folks have been truncated from the main bright lights and big city of Vegas and relegated to the small pubs and second rate clubs of the downtown area. My husband and I have been to Vegas 4 times in the last 5 years and we stay at an off strip casino hotel because basically that is where we are comfortable. The pools, nightclubs, bars and such of the strip area want only the big boobed, long legged young women and the tan and buff young men to frequent them. Anyone else is denied access or ignored completely. I love Vegas and love going there, but I imagine the thirst for newer and newer blood and more and more money will make the powers that be do this stupid thing. If someone who is under 30 doesn't have enough sense to know when to get up from the tables or not to spend $2000 to get a table at a club for bottle service, what do you think 18 year olds will be like? It is no different than street kids selling drugs, why? Good ole fashion greed and getting something for nothing.

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Kids have been getting primed for gambling with those teddy-bear game machines parked in the front of restaurants and stores. Kids try to work a lever to "catch" a toy, which almost never happens because the owner of the machine can adjust the level of difficulty and they do. Rather than spend their money inside the store or restaurant buying something that has a guaranteed payback, kids "gamble" the money and come to expect that it's o.k. to take those risks over and over. Parents beware!

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Interesting banter...tough subject. I suppose when I was 18 I would have preferred a lower gambeling age...I do agree that if you can go and die in Iraq at 18, you should be entitled to every other "perk". But I also feel it is an unfair advantage for the casinos, most 18 year olds, while being intellectually far more advanced than I am, lack the maturity (I realize I am generalizing) to prevent themselves from being taken advantage of in a well marketed Casino environment.

Therefore, I suggest that we raise the level for everything to 21, including the ability for a politician to snuff your life out overseas.

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I'm pretty sure the age used to be 18. When I was 17 years old my family stopped in Las Vegas on holiday. I was forced to stay behind in the kid area because I was stil a few months short of the legal age. You know what I feel, if a person is old enough at 18 to go fight in a war to secure our freedoms, ones they can't even have when they come home, then they're old enough to drink and gamble and whatever else is considered adult at that age. You can't have it both ways. Convenient to call someone an adult at 18 if you want them to fight and die for you, but yet not an adult to enjoy the freedom and pleasures an "adult" can. If they want to keep drinking and gambling legal at 21, then they should make it 21 before you can enter the military. What a two-faced country we are!

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Living in Las Vegas, I have to say, this is a very bad idea.

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I look at this the same way I do at drinking at age 18..........If you are old enough to serve and die for your country at 18. Then you can darn sure gamble

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