by All the chatter now about gun control due to the recent shootings have me thinking about our history and my mind goes to prohibition. What did prohibition actually do? It made the bad guys rich. Under Prohibition, the illegal manufacture and sale of liquor–known as “bootlegging”–occurred on a large scale across the United States.
“Perhaps the most dramatic consequence of Prohibition was the effect it had on organized crime in the United States: as the production and sale of alcohol went further underground, it began to be controlled by the Mafia and other gangs, who transformed themselves into sophisticated criminal enterprises that reaped huge profits from the illicit liquor trade.
When it came to its booming bootleg business, the Mafia became skilled at bribing police and politicians to look the other way. Chicago’s Al Capone emerged as the most notorious example of this phenomenon, earning an estimated $60 million annually from the bootlegging and speakeasy operations he controlled. In addition to bootlegging, gambling and prostitution reached new heights during the 1920s as well. A growing number of Americans came to blame Prohibition for this widespread moral decay and disorder–despite the fact that the legislation had intended to do the opposite–and to condemn it as a dangerous infringement on the freedom of the individual.”
To imagine that taking away guns would be any different is not thinking in my opinion. I believe that if the government begins to take away guns that organized crime will pick it up. It would work that way because its always worked that way.
I don’t believe anyone should be allowed to buy guns, especially assault weapons. And I am NOT stating that drinking alcohol is a good thing, so please don’t misunderstand me. I am saying that when you tell people they can’t do something they will find a way. Criminals will always have guns.