Raise the drinking age

[fargon]

I am in the processes of writing a letter to the La Crosse Tribune, City Council, and posting this letter on community bulletin boards all over the city. I am proposing raising the city age of consumption to 25, and suggesting stiff mandatory penalties for violators. These will include, mandatory jail time for first offenders, including the people who are buying alcoholic beverages for minors, and permanent loss of liquor licences for the retailers and wholesalers, of these beverages.
This has been brought on by another death of a young man, on the Mississippi levee at Riverside Park. He was only 21, and had a BA of .26. The city is in an uproar just last year another young man died, in the same area under the same circumstances.
The UW-L, Vitterbro, and WWTC are silent, just the usual poor baby statements and candle lite vigil. The local OctoberFest has become a reason for binge drinking among the population.
The madness must stop, before others are wasted needlessly. I am doing this as a concerned citizen, I don't want to be an a$$hole...