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And we all know how that worked.
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But it doesn't even have to be past tense. Today we have the War on Drugs, which quite possibly could be even worse than liquor prohibition in terms of violence and generating otherwise non-existent crime.
I'm not saying that I would go up to Al Capone's face, spit on his shoes and say something less than flattering about his mother. But I would give myself better odds of coming out of 1925 Cicero alive after casually driving through than I would for some of the neighborhoods controlled by the FARC, the Bloods, the Crips, the Mara Salvatrucha, Nuevo Laredo or any other of the vicious gangs, cartels and smuggler run towns which that particular war on a concept has produced.