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Originally Posted by CGYTransplant
I have heard this several times, from several different sources, and I can't for the life of me figure out why people are so surprised. You want to guarantee that there will NEVER be another alcohol-related car accident? Then ban all access to all forms of alcohol- if it can't be purchased, manufactured or distributed in any way, then your problem is solved!
Of course, that is true IN THEORY, but in theory Communism works. North America tried that already, and it was an abject failure (except in parts of Utah, I'm told- I've never been). Prohibition would be a super-fail, again, and very expensive to enforce, and would just be adding ANOTHER black market item for people to fight over.
It is too bad that what is essentially a good cause has been corrupted in such a pervasive way. I mean, I don't think anyone can really state that Driving Drunk is safe, or a positive action....but I don't think total prohibition is going to solve the issue.
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yeah, the sledgehammer theory always seems to take control over any common sense when it comes to public action groups. I remember back in the early '90s in Lethbridge when they decided to sell beer at the baseball park, and MADD went into conniptions claiming the park's proximity to a major road would cause drunk driving to skyrocket. Think they'll try to ban hand sanitizer after reading all these stories of teenagers drinking it?