Erm…yeah, obviously THEY will target it as such. That doesn’t make it true. My point was just that, in fact, the kind of person who robs a bank to pay off online poker debts is the same guy that would rob a bank to pay off land-based poker debts is the same guy who would rob a bank to pay off [fill in the blank]. The guy ROBBED A BANK. I’m 15k in student loan debt, 10k in credit card debt, but I’m not robbing banks.
They also brought up somebody who supposedly killed themselves over their online poker debts. Again, this is not some unique menace of online gambling. Suicide and bank robbing are not side effects of online gambling. People kill themselves over break-ups, child custody battles, getting fired…people rob banks because they are greedy, or broke, or CRIMINALS.
Sheesh. YES, the guys who are trying to ban it will say that this is some unique scourge. It isn’t. Just like alcohol, or cigarettes, or TV for God’s sake, plenty of people don’t know how to use and not abuse. But alcohol and cigarettes and TV are all legal. For now. And online gambling should be too.