[Drango]

Blame the victim for the crime

I blame the rapist...who are you blaming?

[Gabz]

Reread your post to which I responded.

You obviously have never met a bar/restaurant employee or patron that has been assaulted because they were required to go outside to have a cigarette. I have.

The weather in California is a bit more accommodating to outdoor dining/drinking than it is in Delaware, New York or Maine, or Pueblo, Colorado.

Of course the rapist is to blame, but if there was no smoking ban in effect the victim of this rapist would never have had to go outside and therefore would have most likely not become his victim. The ban is complicit in this crime, without doubt.