The overall crime rate dropped...I know the murder rates rose in the big cities where organized crime was very active in the control of the alcohol trade. I don’t deny the murder rate...that is one reason given for repeal of the 18th amendment. I cited the vicious gang wars. Many folks were incidentally caught up in the cross fire. To own folks’ souls via their vices has always been one of the favorite pastimes of money loving sociopaths...and the 18th amendment ironically served as such a vehicle for such control!
Given the progressivism evident even in the early 20th century...those devious bastards blunted a well meant social movement that sought to curb the excessive alcoholism in the country by designing an amendment that they knew over time would self destruct.(my personal opinion anyway) They passed an amendment that was made to appease the “dry” movement that had taken the populace by storm, but avoided actually banning the ownership and consumption of alcohol. The progressive elites even then wanted a complacent populace upon which to work their mischief...stoned and drunk was even better. Hence the source for example of the founding of the Kennedy fortune and their hateful political dynasty!
A real reform effort would zero in on the causes of such a scourge, this dystopic and dysfunctional need to remain altered from reality, there-bye over time diminishing the market for alcohol without violating our personal liberties. Hence, it would not do for sociopathic progressives to allow for policies that would make men and women more grounded in their personal liberties by an understanding that God has granted and founded such freedoms thru his son Jesus Christ; there-bye allowing the populace to develop clear minds and maintain clean consciences!
2 Timothy 1:7
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Do we agree that such health and moral issues should be regulated by states rather than fedgov, per the Tenth Amendment?
Agreed. I don't think government is by its nature suited to the job.