Should Gambling be Legal

[zeke]

]I'm not a gambler, but that's mainly because I'm not very good at it. [/B] But that doesn't mean others shouldn't have that right. I know people who have lost a lot of money gambling. I know of cases where one person's gambling habits have led to the destruction of their marriages, and the suffering of their families. I even know people who are involved with certain "organizations" that host and benefit from the gambling activities of others.
Like other personal activities though, it's not something that I think the gov't should interfere with, or make illegal.

I am not a gambler either. Mostly cause I hate pissing my money away. First thing any gambler should learn is that the house always wins.

Second, I bet many of you gambler supporters are really glad when the guy with the gambling addiction causes his wife and kids to apply for food stamps and welfare.

Or better yet, when those on welfare line up to play what few meager dollars they have, they play on the lotto. Why some times when I am standing in line while this person plays all their numbers, why it's just like they have a job or something.

Bet you all like the poverty and misery that gambling brings to way to many families.

Don't believe me? Google "gambling addiction".

 

[Circle_Breaker]

]I'm not a gambler, but that's mainly because I'm not very good at it. [/B] But that doesn't mean others shouldn't have that right. I know people who have lost a lot of money gambling. I know of cases where one person's gambling habits have led to the destruction of their marriages, and the suffering of their families. I even know people who are involved with certain "organizations" that host and benefit from the gambling activities of others.
Like other personal activities though, it's not something that I think the gov't should interfere with, or make illegal.

I am not a gambler either. Mostly cause I hate pissing my money away. First thing any gambler should learn is that the house always wins.

Second, I bet many of you gambler supporters are really glad when the guy with the gambling addiction causes his wife and kids to apply for food stamps and welfare.

Or better yet, when those on welfare line up to play what few meager dollars they have, they play on the lotto. Why some times when I am standing in line while this person plays all their numbers, why it's just like they have a job or something.

Bet you all like the poverty and misery that gambling brings to way to many families.

Don't believe me? Google "gambling addiction".

I'm guessing alcohol destroys more families then gambling, but i can still walk over to 7-11 and buy a 6 pack.

Why should someone else;s ineptness affect my ability to gamble?

Punishing the masses for the mistakes of a few is very flawed logic.

 

[freedombecki]

Apparently, the Super Bowl the heaviest betting event on the planet, with some $10,000,000,000 wagered over this game. Which got me thinking, should all gambling be legalized?

Some gambling is legalized. The government generates big money through lotteries. Some states say its OK while others don't. So people who want to gamble just go to those states.

I think gambling should be legal. It's silly that the government is telling us how we can spend our money.

What do you think?

No. Gambling brings dissolution to the family, and it's against everything our pilgrim fathers paid for with sweat and hard work of forging a life in an initially unforgiving land so their posterity could enjoy freedom of speech and the pursuit of happiness. Their religion, as hated as it is today by emboldened paparazzi, provided a healing source of education and the strength that comes with forgiveness.

People who win bets aren't necessarily forgiving nor accepting-of-others types. Just read some of the signatures about who welshers are after an election is won or lost. They made bets based on what they knew for a fact due to unfairness at bean-counting by insiders of omuerta. imloho

 

[freedombecki]

I'm not a gambler, but that's mainly because I'm not very good at it. But that doesn't mean others shouldn't have that right. I know people who have lost a lot of money gambling. I know of cases where one person's gambling habits have led to the destruction of their marriages, and the suffering of their families. I even know people who are involved with certain "organizations" that host and benefit from the gambling activities of others.
Like other personal activities though, it's not something that I think the gov't should interfere with, or make illegal.

Is that what you think? So did these guys who don't have a normal response to saying no to risk-taking:

A 40 year old Illinois woman gambled away her family's savings and her wedding ring on a riverboat casino. When she found out that the sheriff was on his way to evict her and her family for missing 17 consecutive mortgage payments, she drove to a mall parking lot and shot herself. She left a husband who did not even know that his wife gambled, let alone had a gambling problem.

• Jason Berg killed himself after running up a huge gambling loss. He left a suicide note which simply read, "I'm out of control." He was 19 years old.

• Cuong Thu Cam fatally shot two friends and later committed suicide. He was despondent over his gambling debts and owed as much as $200,000.

• A bank robbery occurred in San Jose. The robber was found within a couple of hours waiting for a seat at the gaming table inside a club.

• In Oregon, a County Commissioner was recalled in 1995 after pleading guilty to embezzling county funds to fuel his compulsive gambling.

 

[House]

The other thing is that access to gambling can ruin a family. It is a disease, and people can burn through their savings fast.

There's this lovely little concept I like to promote. It's called personal responsibility. It should be up to each individual to decide what is appropriate for them, not some bureaucratic nanny.

There's too much pussification in this country.

Slot machines were legalized in Alberta bars roughly 20 years ago. When several men lost many thousands of dollars in a very short period of time, the town council banned the machines and legalized strippers because they figured you couldn't lose all your money on strippers.

AS IF!

I've "lost" more money on strippers than I ever have in any casino. Combined, probably.

What a ridiculous notion. Silly Canadians.

 

[Esmeralda]

I'm not a gambler. When I was about 24, I went to a small casino. I put $5 down at the roulette wheel and it was gone in an instant. I was in shock that money could be gone so fast. My money does not come easy and it does not go easy. I never did that type of gambling again. A bit later I gambled at the horse races and the dog races, a few times. I only made small $2 bets but won sometimes. The thing is, you get entertainment for your $2: you get to watch the race. That's was years and years ago. Never have gambled again. But, I think it should be legal, though overseen by the government, with legal restrictions, like postitution. Prostitution is okay with me as long as it is overseen by the government with legal restrictions.

 

[zeke]

]I'm not a gambler, but that's mainly because I'm not very good at it. [/B] But that doesn't mean others shouldn't have that right. I know people who have lost a lot of money gambling. I know of cases where one person's gambling habits have led to the destruction of their marriages, and the suffering of their families. I even know people who are involved with certain "organizations" that host and benefit from the gambling activities of others.
Like other personal activities though, it's not something that I think the gov't should interfere with, or make illegal.

I am not a gambler either. Mostly cause I hate pissing my money away. First thing any gambler should learn is that the house always wins.

Second, I bet many of you gambler supporters are really glad when the guy with the gambling addiction causes his wife and kids to apply for food stamps and welfare.

Or better yet, when those on welfare line up to play what few meager dollars they have, they play on the lotto. Why some times when I am standing in line while this person plays all their numbers, why it's just like they have a job or something.

Bet you all like the poverty and misery that gambling brings to way to many families.

Don't believe me? Google "gambling addiction".

I'm guessing alcohol destroys more families then gambling, but i can still walk over to 7-11 and buy a 6 pack.

Why should someone else;s ineptness affect my ability to gamble?

Punishing the masses for the mistakes of a few is very flawed logic.

There is no "guessing" about the hardship alcohol abuse has on families. Why, I even bet that was why Prohibition was tried. Why you think prohibition was tried?

But the fact is, as someone so ably pointed out, this country was built on working hard and being frugal. Is there now something wrong with those attributes? Should we abandon hard work and being frugal just so the casino owners can make millions and millions. Why some of their millions even goes to schools. Of course it ain't enough so the state is still asking for more tax dollars for schools.

Like I said, I don't gamble. But I sure don't understand how government encouraging our fellow citizens to piss away their money is a step in the direction of being a great country again.

Why don't you point out to me how gambling made this nation the great nation it once was.

 

[Duped]

Let people live their lives. If they are not putting others in harms way, or victimizing others - it is none of my business what they do. Obviously children should not be allowed to gamble. You cannot keep people from sex, drugs, or gambling - any effort to do so will fail miserably; cause more problems!

Our president has been gambling with our money, and those yet to be born from the time he took office, and has run up a huge debt!

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

Ohioans voted a few years ago to allow a company to build a few casinos in the state, which I opposed. I think people absolutely have the right to gamble their own property in whatever way they would like to do so, and I have no problem with building casinos in the state. My objection was that this vote simply granted a monopoly to one company to build only a set number of casinos. That is corporatism at its best.

 

[BlindBoo]

My wife is off gambling at the Casinos in La. right now.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Of course it should be legal. Some humans telling other humans that they know what is best for them never works out. Fundies have the problem, in the same way as LOLberals, of looking to control behavior through the legislation of government. It's the same thing as telling people they need to pay more in taxes, r that they need to watch what size soda they drink, or any other social engineering.

 

[House]

My wife is off gambling at the Casinos in La. right now.

Louisiana?

 

[kwc57]

Apparently, the Super Bowl the heaviest betting event on the planet, with some $10,000,000,000 wagered over this game. Which got me thinking, should all gambling be legalized?

Some gambling is legalized. The government generates big money through lotteries. Some states say its OK while others don't. So people who want to gamble just go to those states.

I think gambling should be legal. It's silly that the government is telling us how we can spend our money.

What do you think?

Yep, right along with drugs and prostitution. If I chose to wreck my life engaging in any of those activities, that's on me.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

Apparently, the Super Bowl the heaviest betting event on the planet, with some $10,000,000,000 wagered over this game. Which got me thinking, should all gambling be legalized?

Some gambling is legalized. The government generates big money through lotteries. Some states say its OK while others don't. So people who want to gamble just go to those states.

I think gambling should be legal. It's silly that the government is telling us how we can spend our money.

What do you think?

Yep, right along with drugs and prostitution. If I chose to wreck my life engaging in any of those activities, that's on me.

Absolutely. This is the crux of the entire social engineering argument. it's no one elses business if I waste my life, money or health on these things. As long as I didn't take or damage someone elses property, it's entirely my own business what I do.

 

[BlindBoo]

My wife is off gambling at the Casinos in La. right now.

Louisiana?

Yep.

 

[Papawx3]

My wife is off gambling at the Casinos in La. right now.

I wouldn't get caught dead in a casino. Not because of the gambling, but because of all the smoke that I'd have to walk through to get to the machines. In fact, if someone caught me in a casino, it would only be because I'm dead...

 

[House]

My wife is off gambling at the Casinos in La. right now.

I wouldn't get caught dead in a casino. Not because of the gambling, but because of all the smoke that I'd have to walk through to get to the machines. In fact, if someone caught me in a casino, it would only be because I'm dead...

That depends on the state.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It's ridiculous that NY State will let me gamble on the Lotto where my odds of winning have to be expressed in scientific notation but they won't let me play a Hold em SNG.

******* Nanny State

 

[Plasmaball]

I'm not a gambler, but that's mainly because I'm not very good at it. But that doesn't mean others shouldn't have that right. I know people who have lost a lot of money gambling. I know of cases where one person's gambling habits have led to the destruction of their marriages, and the suffering of their families. I even know people who are involved with certain "organizations" that host and benefit from the gambling activities of others.
Like other personal activities though, it's not something that I think the gov't should interfere with, or make illegal.

Is that what you think? So did these guys who don't have a normal response to saying no to risk-taking:

A 40 year old Illinois woman gambled away her family's savings and her wedding ring on a riverboat casino. When she found out that the sheriff was on his way to evict her and her family for missing 17 consecutive mortgage payments, she drove to a mall parking lot and shot herself. She left a husband who did not even know that his wife gambled, let alone had a gambling problem.

• Jason Berg killed himself after running up a huge gambling loss. He left a suicide note which simply read, "I'm out of control." He was 19 years old.

• Cuong Thu Cam fatally shot two friends and later committed suicide. He was despondent over his gambling debts and owed as much as $200,000.

• A bank robbery occurred in San Jose. The robber was found within a couple of hours waiting for a seat at the gaming table inside a club.

• In Oregon, a County Commissioner was recalled in 1995 after pleading guilty to embezzling county funds to fuel his compulsive gambling.

Tough shit, regardless nanny stater people like you are an issue. Oh how i hope i never see you in a thread where someone bans soda or anything. I dont need to watch you decry "FREEDOM" and tyranny and crap.

Which i know you will

 

[kwc57]

I'm not a gambler, but that's mainly because I'm not very good at it. But that doesn't mean others shouldn't have that right. I know people who have lost a lot of money gambling. I know of cases where one person's gambling habits have led to the destruction of their marriages, and the suffering of their families. I even know people who are involved with certain "organizations" that host and benefit from the gambling activities of others.
Like other personal activities though, it's not something that I think the gov't should interfere with, or make illegal.

Is that what you think? So did these guys who don't have a normal response to saying no to risk-taking:

A 40 year old Illinois woman gambled away her family's savings and her wedding ring on a riverboat casino. When she found out that the sheriff was on his way to evict her and her family for missing 17 consecutive mortgage payments, she drove to a mall parking lot and shot herself. She left a husband who did not even know that his wife gambled, let alone had a gambling problem.

• Jason Berg killed himself after running up a huge gambling loss. He left a suicide note which simply read, "I'm out of control." He was 19 years old.

• Cuong Thu Cam fatally shot two friends and later committed suicide. He was despondent over his gambling debts and owed as much as $200,000.

• A bank robbery occurred in San Jose. The robber was found within a couple of hours waiting for a seat at the gaming table inside a club.

• In Oregon, a County Commissioner was recalled in 1995 after pleading guilty to embezzling county funds to fuel his compulsive gambling.

Tough shit, regardless nanny stater people like you are an issue. Oh how i hope i never see you in a thread where someone bans soda or anything. I dont need to watch you decry "FREEDOM" and tyranny and crap.

Which i know you will

When did you start hating the nanny state comrade?