Reasons, Why Gambling Should Be Illegal

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Parthi you write an second paragraph is an introduction and then put a title why gambling should be illegal and then continue the paragraph 2/23/2011
DJP Having gambling be illegal would not stop it, infact it would still go on underground it would diminish the amount of people who would partake in gambling but would help to esculate other crime because it is "underground". 1/20/2011
Ryan "There aren’t always winners in this game of gambling; in fact most of the gamblers are losers. If they were all winners then everyone would be gambling and coming out with buckets full of money."

Phil Ivey averages as many buckets of money a day to fill your house Frankie		 1/2/2011
Ryan Everyone one of these reasons highlights one very obvious theme; gambling exploits peoples personal weaknesses. Some people go overboard, some people don't. This same reason applies to drinking, smoking, sex (porn, strip clubs), among other things. If a person lacks personal control, don't even start these activities in the first place. If the government wants to ban gambling, first ban smoking, sex, and drinking. And the very next day, I would move to Canada because this country would be a complete joke if our personal freedom is taken away from us 1/2/2011
frank There are two kinds of gambling. There’s a legal and illegal kind of gambling. Gambling is all fun and games until someone loses track of their lives. Legal gambling may seem fun and safe but that doesn’t stop you from getting into troubles such as becoming addicted to gambling. Addiction leads to family and social problems. It could make you think that you’ve got no choice but to start stealing from your family and friends. This would make your relationships with your family and friends very distant and you’d become a very lonely person.Gambling is like a baby trying to open a cupboard with a padlock on it. The baby can try as many times to open it but still fail. In other words you can attempt to win your games but there is no true technique to this gambling game, it is all a matter of luck.
There aren’t always winners in this game of gambling; in fact most of the gamblers are losers. If they were all winners then everyone would be gambling and coming out with buckets full of money.		 11/18/2010
jane M if you want to make gambling illegal then what would illegal gambling be... forbidden ? 11/18/2010
jane nice ...sounds just like my essay about why gambling should be banned 11/18/2010
Benjamin I disagree with the statement that gambling should be illegal. I think people should be able to spend/waste there money and ruin their lives. It is their choice, and their money; they should be able to spend it on whatever they please (to an extent of course.) However making it illegal and then providing several exceptions sends mixed messages about it, and it monopolizes it's practice. Having said all that, gambling isn't a good idea most often. I just think it should be a choice. This country is based upon morals of freedom, so I don't think it is right to take such freedoms away. 11/15/2010
Zedge AT: Manali Oak ;
It's little ol'do gooder granny types like you, that want to protect us stupid grown-ups from themselves, bilking the rest of us out trillions of dollars in taxes, prosecuting people and enforcing your morals on the general public! You cannot regulate human appetite. We will do what we want and consume what we want, no matter what the government has to say about it.. Just have a look at your "war on drugs". The people may have suffered the most casualties (one person arrested every 17 seconds) but, we are winning. We can still get a bag of weed faster than you can get a peperoni pizza! Just give up and mind your own business already.		 11/10/2010
Karim I agree that gambling should be illegal; Casinos should be made illegal too. It is so easy to get too involved and to loose tonnes of money, as a result. People should work for money and then use it to help benefit their families and their own well-being. 10/27/2010
Keri Its ruining the national debt 10/19/2010
DONNY BONAFOCO I THINK CASINOS ARE A FRIKEN MWJOKE YOU CAN NOT WIN! THAT IS RIGHT YOU CAN NOT WIN. THEY WILL TAKE YOUR LAST PENNIE AND MAKE YOU JOBLESS AND PUT YOU ON THE STREET. DID I ALSO METION SPLIT YOUR FAMILY UP TO. THERE IS NO BENIFIT IN CASINOS THEY ALWAYS COME OUT TO BE THE WINNER IN THE LONG RUN DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND STAY AWAY FROM GAMBLEING.

PS. NEVER EVER GAMBLE IN DETROIT THEY ARE THE BIGGEST KIKES EVER		 9/14/2010
Jason So it shouldn't be legal for responsible adults to have the freedom granted to us by the Constitution? That doesn't make sense. It's my money, why should the government tell me what I can do with it? 7/26/2010
Devontae when was this article published? 6/1/2010
john the only way to beat these gambling games isnt just to double your bet each bet,its to keep track of your losses and bet over double the amount of your combined losses each time you start loosing, casino's insure that you cant do this and tip the advantage unfairly towards the house by having betting high betting starts and betting limits. 4/24/2010
john if your ever caught card counting and they tell you to leave or flat bet only, thats why, because a person flat betting cannot win at gambling and your money is eroded away because your odds at loosing at gamblng in a row are better than your odds at winning in a row, you can never make up for the money you loose, even when you occasionaly win. slots used a flat bet fixed percentage making it look like the bets are fluxuating and getting higher when thier not going over a certain amount most of the time, occasionaly having a "big payout" once in a blue moon. 4/24/2010
john gambling should be illegal because of flat betting. flat betting is a ripoff used in slot machines, craps and blackjack. essentialy when you play a game of blackjack and flat bet, even though you may have good odds and say you bet 3 games at 40 dollars flat betting. if you win the 3rd, you arent actualy winning, your breaking even. because in gambling you loose more times in a row than you win, this acts like a computer worm, slowly nibbling your cash away. slot machines desguise flat betting by using a percentage system with occaisonal "payouts". ie. because the payouts dont increase over a fixed percentage betting amount your money is still nibbled away the more you play because the more you gamble the more times in a row you loose. the only way to win at gambling is to increase your betting amounts to match your losses (going over, not just doubling like martingales system). the problem is casino's already protect against this by having high starting bet amounts and ceilings on bet limits wich is why the only people getting rich are the occasional big time winner and casino's themselves. casino's practice flat betting wich should be illegal as its a scam in blackjack by staggering the betting amounts so high its not possible for the average person playing to double thier bet amounts to match thier losses and by putting ceiling limits on betting amounts, insuring the house comes out on top with the player loosing more than the house. 4/24/2010
Luke Kothman gambling should be legal this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. your stupid for losing all your money in gambling 4/22/2010
george orwell gambling rocks 4/22/2010
Jack Safar Does that mean the stock market should be illegal? 4/9/2010
Ste there are no benefits to gambling at all, ive yet to meet someone who has benefited in the long run from any form of gambling. It should be illegal it ruins lives FACT! 3/24/2010
Michael this helped me very much. i learned the exact things i wanted to know and t helped me find some great quotes. 3/2/2010
Molly People are addicted to alochol too arn't they? And thats legal too. 2/9/2010
jedi what a lot of crap, fair enough a small minority might become addicted but to punish the rest of us for this is the stupidest thing i,ve heard, its people like you thats the problm 1/17/2010
Yago.vieyra This argument looks like it was written by a 5th grader.
Making gambling illegal isn't going to solve the issues. Like with any crime, you should try to get to the source of why such activities can become so addicting.
Don't fight the problem. Prevent it.		 1/13/2010
Alex Pletea gambling should be illegal because many people spend all their money on gambling their wages and stuff so it causes trouble in many peoples lives and also families i experienced it my self as my mums ex boyfriend used to gamble a lot and he spent his wage on gambling giving us stress because then there was no money to pay the rent and stuff. 12/11/2009
Bridget Gambling should be illegal. Not only does it adversely affect our economy, but it tears up families and ruins lives. Gambling truly is an addiction and should not be supported. 10/20/2009
John There's a quote that says something like "If you can't spend your money irrationally or irresponsibly, then you're not really free at all". What about freedom? 6/20/2009
gloria i think it should be legal 2/27/2009
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