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State Gambling Laws: Differences You Wouldn't Believe | |
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Saturday,
February 10th Why do laws change so
drastically from state to state? Let's explore gambling, and how
differently it's treated.
Some examples of
questionable state laws
Here are a
few portions of the Prefatory Note before the Model Antigambling
Act. The actual Act itself is just a lot of the legalese about the
definitions of gambling, that are found throughout the states'
antigambling laws.
“One of the most basic and significant
findings of the United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate
Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce was: ‘Gambling profits are the principal support
of big-time racketeering and gangsterism. These profits provide the
financial resources whereby ordinary criminals are converted into big-time
racketeers, political bosses, pseudo businessmen, and alleged
philanthropists.’” :
1rack·e·teer
: one
who obtains money by an illegal enterprise usually involving
intimidation (Merriam-Webster) en·ter·prise 1: a
project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or
risky
(Merriam-Webster) So
gambling is defined as obtaining money in a difficult way but
intimidating? Since when do
gamblers these days intimidate each other? Before we evolved into a
commercial machine, perhaps these laws made sense. When gambling was at tables
without a hundred security cameras aimed at it, without policemen and
undercover security with earpieces, before we became civilized and
politically correct all the way down the littlest details of our
hobbies. But
why now? Now, when laws could
be just as easily drafted to define the penalties for cheaters and
intimidating…what, promoters?
Go to my casino or I’ll pop you one. Put another quarter in or I’ll
kick your ass. Instead
of passing issues every November, can we analyze the relevancy of the
current laws a little bit? “In shaping its own program, therefore, the
Commission on Organized Crime asked for authority to review local gambling
laws and to propose model legislation to curb this fantastic illegal
enterprise at a local level.
Such authority was given.” The statements that gambling
needs to be curbed for “obvious reasons” and that it is understood that
gambling leads to other offenses are prevelant throughout; however, the
closest this act comes to giving a reason why is as
follows: “The professional gambler has been clearly
exposed as a social evil, and as has been noted, his activities are
recognized as the backbone of organized crime. His importance as the key to the
situation has been widely recognized by the courts: ‘The purpose of the Legislature was to
discourage and repress gambling in all its forms and the law is to be
construed as to accomplish, so far as possible, the suppression of the
mischief against which it was directed…Curb the professional with his
constant offer of temptation, coupled with ready opportunity, and you have
to a large extent controlled the evil…’”
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