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Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by CatWChainsaw on Sunday September 29, 2024 @09:49PM (#41692688)
Fully illegal = lots of murders.

Fully legal = lots of suicides.

Re:Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Mistake by mattmaroon on Monday September 30, 2024 @02:33PM (#41700435)
With drugs, perhaps. But even there, if you count overdoses as suicides, which I largely do, it’s still mainly that. Illegal gambling is probably a precursor to 100x as many suicides as murders. It’s not even close. Murders happen but not a lot.

And almost everywhere has plenty of legal gambling. All that’s been changed is you can gamble on one more thing and not violate federal law. State law still applies.