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Originally Posted by Azure
My point is that if we want to decide whether something should be legal based on the societal benefits, then alcohol should be made illegal.
But of course we have long moved past that kind of reasoning as a country, and have realized that if reasonable limitations are applied, most law abiding citizens are generally not an issue.
Except when it comes to gun control. For some reason when it comes to guns all reasoning goes out the window.
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This is not an argument to convince anyone.
With your logic - I should be able to go Home Depot and buy up a bunch of bombs if I pass my background so I can take down the unwanted building in my backyard. If anyone uses one of these bombs to do something bad - well that's just a bad actor.
There are a ton of things you can't just walk down to the store and buy because they are dangerous to society. The government - with our support or non-support - decides what that line is - and if they go too far - we can vote them out. The decision has been made that banning alcohol went too far so it was removed.