>>Many more people are harmed from the behavioral effects of Ethyl Alcohol consumption. The social costs are significant.

>>



Good point, John.

I've always believed this is the ultimate "progressive" hypocrisy. The following excerpts are from a DOJ report:



http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/ac.pdf



"Two-thirds of victims who suffered

violence by an intimate (a current or

former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend)

reported that alcohol had been a

factor. Among spouse victims, 3 out

of 4 incidents were reported to have

involved an offender who had been

drinking. By contrast, an estimated

31% of stranger victimizations where

the victim could determine the

absence or presence of alcohol were

perceived to be alcohol-related."



"Based on this compilation and new

analysis of data on alcohol and crime,

we know that nearly 4 in 10 violent

victimizations involve use of alcohol,

about 4 in 10 fatal motor vehicle

accidents are alcohol-involved; and

about 4 in 10 offenders, regardless of

whether they are on probation, in local

jail, or in State prison, self-report that

they were using alcohol at the time of

the offense."



This translates to THOUSANDS of human deaths EVERY YEAR in

the US.



You'd think the elitist progressives would be focusing solely on

banning alcohol if they were consistent in their reasoning.

But I guess banning pythons, hamsters and parakeets will turn society into a Utopian playground of rainbows and flowers where nothing bad ever happens.

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