{"id":91428,"date":"2019-10-01T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=91428"},"modified":"2019-09-30T23:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T03:09:08","slug":"prohibition-didnt-work-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=91428","title":{"rendered":"Prohibition Didn’t Work, So…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Remember when the 18th Amendment was passed and ratified?\u00a0 Yeah, me neither, but it had a profound effect on people.<\/p>\n

The Eighteenth\u00a0Amendment<\/b>\u00a0(Amendment<\/b>\u00a0XVIII) of the United States Constitution established the\u00a0prohibition<\/b>\u00a0of “intoxicating liquors” in the United States. The\u00a0amendment<\/b> was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and was ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919. – Wiki<\/p>\n

Up until Prohibition went into effect, the government could tax alcohol of all kinds. When the 18th Amendment was finally ratified in 1919, that tax was lost. However, the 16th Amendment allowed the Federal government to inflict an income tax on the general public, thus rendering the need to tax liquor unnecessary. There was a way around the Prohibition amendment, however, and that was to label alcoholic beverages as ‘For Medicinal Purposes’. And Joe Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy clan, took advantage of this loophole in the law. He imported whiskey labeled “For Medicinal Purposes”, which passed muster with the Coast Guard when the sloops that delivered it to Kennedy were inspected.<\/p>\n

At the link, there is a discussion of Joe Kennedy\u2019s alleged bootlegging whiskey during Prohibition, when it was legal to bring in booze as long as it was labeled \u201cFor Medicinal Purposes\u201d.\u00a0 He disliked Meyer Lansky for grabbing one of his shipments of \u201cmedicinal\u201d whiskey, but his rumored involvement with the Mob was mostly gossip.\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/smugglersbootleggersandscofflaws.com\/joe-kennedy-smuggler-bootlegger\/<\/a><\/p>\n

In fact, Joe Kennedy made the bulk of his money from shorting stocks and doing insider trading in the stock market, when insider trading was legal. It is no longer legal to use insider info, but he made his fortune that way, not by running bootleg whiskey.<\/p>\n

Until the Depression began, Al Capone got around the illegality of selling booze by running speakeasies in Chicago. When the stock markets crashed, and people were literally floundering, he opened a soup kitchen on State Street (9th<\/sup> & State) that fed anyone up to three meals a day.<\/p>\n

\u201c120 000 meals are served by Capone Free Soup Kitchen\u201d the Chicago Tribune headlined on December 1931. – article.<\/p>\n

On Thanksgiving Day, in 1930, he boasted that he had fed up to 5,000 men, women and children a hearty beef stew.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/rarehistoricalphotos.com\/al-capones-soup-kitchen-great-depression-chicago-1931\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Was he a good guy for doing that, or was it just a PR stunt on his part, to get people to pressure the Chicago cops to leave him alone? We\u2019ll never know, but probably both. The 18th Amendment was repealed in 1933, although some states still followed the principles of Prohibition.<\/p>\n

In regard to the foaming frenzy by the Democrats to make another stab at banning guns and gun ownership by individuals, based on the fears and hysteria generated by the media over these random acts of violence, another prohibition amendment won’t work any better than the 18th, for several reasons. Australia’s gun ban was and continues to be ineffective. There are more people in Australia who own guns now than there were when that restriction went into effect. The Australian LEOs have more important things to do than knock on people’s doors and inspect the dwelling for guns. They gave up on that. The same thing is true in New Zealand; more people own guns now than did so before the gun ban law was passed. And in England, which is supposed to be gun-free? People go hunting with – what? – hunting licenses and guns in the fall, just as they fish in streams for salmon and have a cold one at the local.<\/p>\n

It’s up to states to decide what they want to do. The right of citizens to bear arms is in the US Constitution, and as much as I know that some of these people styling themselves Democrats would like to overturn the entire Constitution, it’s still the Law of the Land.<\/p>\n

So when Beto says ‘we’re coming for your guns, we’re gonna take ’em!!’ and other such nonsense, remember that A) Prohibition didn’t work at all in the 1920s and was repealed; and B)\u00a0the Feds really do have better things to do than chase down every confounded gun in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when the 18th Amendment was passed and ratified?\u00a0 Yeah, me neither, but it had a profound effect on people. The Eighteenth\u00a0Amendment\u00a0(Amendment\u00a0XVIII) of the United States Constitution established the\u00a0prohibition\u00a0of “intoxicating liquors” in the United States. The\u00a0amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and was ratified by the requisite number of states on January […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-nME","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}