The US needs to ban alcohol sales...

[dutch508]

Travis_0004 (3,482 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027228497

The US needs to ban alcohol sales


I saw this post from the CDC and was shocked.

Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years.1,2 Further, excessive drinking was responsible for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age adults aged 20-64 years. The economic costs of excessive alcohol consumption in 2006 were estimated at $223.5 billion, or $1.90.

http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

One major cause of deaths is DUI which kills many innocent people.
Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 51 minutes.1 The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $59 billion.2

Thankfully, there are effective measures that can help prevent injuries and deaths from alcohol-impaired driving.

How big is the problem?
In 2013, 10,076 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1

http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html

who will support me? Imagine if next year there were 0 deaths from Alcohol. It would save thousands of innocent lives.

 

Sarcasm? Is this trying to compare guns to alcohol? 

GGJohn (6,073 posts)
5. Why is it a fail? One is just as dead by alcohol as by a firearm.

HERVEPA (5,182 posts)
23. Why don't you crawl back to your ****ing gungeon. Nobody's buying your crap.

villager (23,604 posts)
12. It's on their blood-stained 90's-era faxed sheet of NRA "talking points" they're still working with

Of course it's a fail!

Star Member Hoyt (21,369 posts)
2. Might as well restrict access to your gunz, and ban your toting, first.

Hoyt is a gun-grabber first class, btw. He posts dozens of anti-gun messages daily- mostly in the pro-gun forum on DU.

CaliforniaPeggy (116,886 posts)
6. We tried that once...remember Prohibition? It failed. n/t

CALPEG remembers it fondly...

bemildred (83,954 posts)
19. I would support booze being treated like tobacco. No advertising, no marketing. A good approach for all drugs really, don't prohibit the drug, prohibit the marketing and exorbitant profit from the drug.

LOL! Yes that would work just fine!

bemildred (83,954 posts)
25. And now that I think about it, I think that would be excellent for guns too: no marketing. You can make them and sell them but you can't advertise them, we have already done that for tobacco and I think that is how cannabis is going to wind up too eventually. And the rationale would be the same, public health and safety, and that ought not transgress the 2nd, the challenge will be based on the 1st, "free speech".

 

geomon666 (6,558 posts)
21. We should ban guns first. That way a drunken fight won't be as lethal.

 

laundry_queen (8,098 posts)
45. Stupid analogy

no one has a physical dependence on guns. No one has a genetic predisposition to being addicted to guns. Fail.

 

[John Doe]

It's unfortunate that if one follows the line of thinking of anti-gun rhetoric, this follows suit shortly thereafter. Defining and supporting the state as some sort of caretaker for the masses (i.e., the nanny-state) allows for the encroaching shadow of big government to further take hold. I don't need a government standing over me and watching my actions, trying to protect me from myself. Shit, I'd better start investing in the adult diaper industry, because I know a certain group of people who might need them in the future.

[98ZJUSMC]

CaliforniaPeggy (116,886 posts)
6. We tried that once...remember Prohibition? It failed. n/t

So, you're the one on  ...... the left?

geomon666 (6,558 posts)
21. We should ban guns first. That way a drunken fight won't be as lethal.

It's the answer to everything, isn't it.

No advertising, no marketing. A good approach for all drugs really, don't prohibit the drug, prohibit the marketing and exorbitant profit from the drug. How's that?   

[Mary Ann]

So, you're the one on  ...... the left?

It's the answer to everything, isn't it.

Nope. No turtleneck.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

It's a jab at the gun grabbers.

And it's a good one because you can see how it stirs them up.

[Patriot Guard Rider]

Hoyt is a gun-grabber first class, btw. He posts dozens of anti-gun messages daily- mostly in the pro-gun forum on DU.

Yup. If you believe him, he's personally disarmed lawful conceal carry people, then took their firearms apart and threw the bits into a bush. He can spot someone lawfully carrying concealed at 100 ft.

He's the a*shole other a*sholes aspire to be.

[jukin]

We are just one, maybe two, maybe three more banning(s) from a perfect socialist Utopia.

[thundley4]

In 2013, 10,076 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1

http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html

who will support me? Imagine if next year there were 0 deaths from Alcohol. It would save thousands of innocent lives.

So by those numbers, 20,000+ people will still die in automobile accidents even if alcohol is banned.  Hm, it seems like the problem isn't alcohol, it's the cars!

Alcohol doesn't kill people, cars do.


However, we can immediately decrease those numbers to almost zero. Simply pass a nationwide speed limit of 10 mph, with a first offense calling for a mandatory 10 year prison sentence.

[Ptarmigan]

Travis_0004 (3,482 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027228497

The US needs to ban alcohol sales


I saw this post from the CDC and was shocked.

Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years.1,2 Further, excessive drinking was responsible for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age adults aged 20-64 years. The economic costs of excessive alcohol consumption in 2006 were estimated at $223.5 billion, or $1.90.

http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

One major cause of deaths is DUI which kills many innocent people.
Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 51 minutes.1 The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $59 billion.2

Thankfully, there are effective measures that can help prevent injuries and deaths from alcohol-impaired driving.

How big is the problem?
In 2013, 10,076 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.1

http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html

who will support me? Imagine if next year there were 0 deaths from Alcohol. It would save thousands of innocent lives.

Uh, there is something called Prohibition. It was a colossal failure.

How about we ban cars because they kill WAY more people. Like to hear your take.

[Skul]

 

Nope. No turtleneck.

Don't be so hasty, Mary Ann. I do detect a slight shadow of a young "Adam's Apple". 

[Chris_]

Uh, there is something called Prohibition. It was a colossal failure.

How about we ban cars because they kill WAY more people. Like to hear your take.

I would rather ban liberals.  They're the ones that concoct stupid ideas and expect them to work in the real world.

[Ptarmigan]

I would rather ban liberals.  They're the ones that concoct stupid ideas and expect them to work in the real world.

I agree. Time to ban and criminalize liberalism.

[txradioguy]

geomon666 (6,558 posts)
21. We should ban guns first. That way a drunken fight won't be as lethal.

Wanna bet?

[hillneck]

Let them ban alcohol.  I know some moonshiners that would make a nice profit.  Time to crank up the stills. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

We are just one, maybe two, maybe three more banning(s) from a perfect socialist Utopia.

Oh no, not at all, there is always one more measure of government control that will make the Utopia even better.