[Lurker]

And I posted a reasonable thought experiment in reply.

So here it is, all nice and polite:

Pray dear Fellow Freeper answer this riddle;

Why doesn't the Budweiser guy shoot it out with the Miller guy over 'turf'?

I anxiously awaiteth your response.

Best,

L

[Eagles6]

"Why doesn't the Budweiser guy shoot it out with the Miller guy over 'turf'?"

Because they are employees in a legal enterprise working for a salary. If they had a history of criminal behavior they wouldn't be hired for the job. Criminals with a 3rd grade education and a felony record who are used to large, easy profits are not going to work at McDonalds because they can't make money selling dope. They will engage in some other high dollar, criminal enterprise such as the prescription drug blackmarket, home invasions, kidnap for ransom and robbery, just as it has happened in Columbia and Mexico.

BTW there is quite a bit of criminality involved in the upper levels of alcohol distributorships, just ask jesse jackson, jr.