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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Terrorism on American soil
Message-ID: <952@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 10:10:52 GMT
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Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <6372@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, ins_atge@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Thomas G Edwards) writes:
>    I'll point directly to the number of americans killed on our roads by
> drunk drivers.  I'll point directly to the number of assults and murders
> commited by people under the influence of alcohol.  I'll also point to the
> lives ruined by alcoholism.  Prohibition didn't work because the US was
> addicted to alcohol.  Gangsters were our withdrawal symptoms.

Oddly enough, prohibition _worked_ (that is, achieved most of its stated
goals).  For example, the _total_ rate of murders and suicides went down
quite a bit (I've lost the reference, but it should be possible to check
from official statistics if anyone seriously doubts it).