[Artemis Webb]

I actually knew a guy that believed the prohibition of alcohol should be tried again. I said, “Dave, it was a failure the first time”. He said the Government just “didn’t do it right”.

I changed the subject.

[AppyPappy]

The next time it is tried, the government will exempt themselves from the law.

In DC, it is now legal to possess marijuana but not buy it. All that does is keep the illegal dealers happy.

I went to college in a town where alcohol was not allowed to be sold. People smoked a LOT of weed and there was still lots of alcohol.

[spintreebob]

Prohibition of Alcohol is a case study in the cherry picking and twisting of statistics. A case study in fake news.

As a direct result of 13 years of Prohibition, alcohol use declined bigly. With it, cirrhosis of the liver and other alcohol related diseases and deaths dropped dramatically. Domestic violence dropped bigly.

The Al Capone style murders existed in the US, and especially in Chicago, long before prohibition and long after it ended.

In 1968 a Chicago street gang murdered 7 people on my block alone. Those murders involved solely money and control of extortion of money. There was no alcohol or drugs involved in any of them.

Prohibition did not cause an increase in crime. What it did was give J Edgar Hoover the opportunity to build a very political FBI.

I am amused at those who think the politicization of the FBI is something new. I read the FBI (and local police) reports on those who, like me, were investigated prior to draft into the Army in the 64-67 era. The FBI was extremely political back then, doing favors for both elected and unelected power brokers.

Currently alcohol is the #1 correlation in gun death and injury, both suicide , murder and accidental. Alcohol is the #1 correlation in knife death and injury, in boating, RV, snomobile, skiing and recreational tragedies. Alcohol is the #1 correlation in domestic violence, in unwanted pregnancy, in rape. Across the board, Alcohol is the #1 correlation with social problems in American society.

I don’t have the solution. But let’s be honest about the problem. Guns don’t kill people; People kill people... mostly people who have been drinking kill people.

[libertylover]

“Dave, it was a failure the first time”. He said the Government just “didn’t do it right”.

Reminds me of liberals and socialism/communism.

[shanover]

He said the Government just “didn’t do it right”.

The great lie of Liberalism and their quest for Utopia. They will always be delusional because Liberalism is like heroin to these people.