[MEGoody]

"[P]rohibition turned law-abiding citizens into criminals. . .

No, not really. When prohibition was passed, if someone wanted to be law-abidding, they could simply stop drinking. No one was forcing them to drink alcoholic beverages. They didn't have to drink them to survive. If they broke the law, it was because they chose to do so.

I'm not addressing prohibition itself - just this silly comment.

[fr_freak]

When prohibition was passed, if someone wanted to be law-abidding, they could simply stop drinking. No one was forcing them to drink alcoholic beverages. They didn't have to drink them to survive. If they broke the law, it was because they chose to do so.

Really? So that's your sum total of the American political experience? If you don't need it to survive, the government is perfectly entitled to forbid it to you? What happened to wanting to be free men?