Do you feel lucky? Do you? Almost everyone’s gambled at some point in his life, laying down money on everything from lottery tickets to Vegas poker tables. The thrill of chasing that elusive jackpot has turned gambling into a multi-billion-dollar industry, but there’s a personal risk that comes with every wager. With nearly 500 casinos currently open for business in the U.S. has legalized gambling gone too far?
Important Constitutional duties of state and national government include protecting citizens from dangerous products, health risks, ponzi schemes, false advertising, bait and switch tactics and crime. Gambling fits all of those descriptions and worse. America criminalized gambling twice before in its history. The nation shouldn’t have to learn the same lesson three times.
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