I was just wondering. I am not a big drinker and it just amazes me how important alcohol is to some people. Right now, many people are injured because of drunk drivers and alcoholic parents ruin families for a long time. Also, there are pretty strict laws regulating blood alcohol levels and public drunkeness...at least where I live. I was thinking...why not just outlaw bars and alcohol? Is this unrealistic? I'm interested to see what members of the law enforcement have to say.
2006-12-21 01:34:36 · 13 answers · asked by Angrygirl5 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Wow, great point! Big business has us so conditioned as to what is or isn't acceptable I didn't even think about it that way. In the big picture, I don't think bars and alcohol would ever become outlawed again. There's just too much money involved. I think the amount of money collected from tax on alcohol alone is in the billions each year.
But, in a perfect world, alcohol, tobacco and drugs would all truly be eliminated. Good post, very thought provoking.
2006-12-21 01:44:17 · answer #1 · answered by babalu2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 01:08:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that if bars and alcohol are barred again then it will be just like what happened last time and with everything else that is illegal. Everyone will just do it behind the laws back.
2006-12-21 01:40:35 · answer #3 · answered by Jenn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I suppose they could but I don't think they would because it would put all of the bars or bar and grill people out of business. And it would really hurt all of the people who own viniards and ppl who own the beer companes. And people would just do what they did in the last prohibition - have their own still.
Plus nascar wouldn't be the same without beer.
2006-12-21 02:04:25 · answer #4 · answered by what? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, maybe. The constitution allows individual states to outlaw alcohol.
2006-12-21 01:45:34 · answer #5 · answered by Codster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one wants to create another Al Capone. Outlawing alcohol would just create another class of criminal for the already overcrowded judicial system.
2006-12-21 01:42:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No because it brings in too much tax revenue. Same with cigarettes.
Also during the prohibition crime rates and severity of crimes was much worse.
I think someone already mentioned Al Capone.
2006-12-21 01:45:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Such a thought is so contrary to freedom, liberty and the rights this country was founded upon, that I find it shocking that people still believe things like this.
"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience." - Albert Camus
IMO, there in nothing worse, nothing more a threat to my freedom, liberty and rights, than a person who seeks to protect me from myself.
2006-12-21 02:02:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They tried that already in the 1930's, it was called prohibition, and the bootleggers make money hand over fist.
2006-12-21 06:25:12 · answer #9 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was before,it might be again,a return to the booze cans,and hopefully those snappy flapper outfits.
2006-12-21 01:39:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋