Essay: Prohibition of Alcohol

Sample Essay

In 1919 up to 1933 carrying, consuming or even selling alcohol was against the law. Some people believed that alcohol was a bad thing and that it caused people to do terrible things. To these people, it seemed like a good idea at the time to make alcohol illegal. However, production of alcohol is still carried out and sold publicly. The prohibition of alcohol failed miserably. Currently, we can see illegal drugs being banned. Now many of us know that most drugs that are illegal are bad to people’s health when used. However, when drugs like cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and meth are still being traded in America, illegally though but the restrictions could stop the consumption of drugs and innocent lives are lost almost every day in America.

In other words we can put it this way ‘suppression of anything will only lead to curiosity among citizens and can lead to devastating consequences[i].

Incidents that develop this premise

• 1911, Turkey imposed gun control and almost 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives due to inability to defend themselves.
• 1929, Soviet Union imposed gun control and almost about 20 million lost their lives due to inability to defend themselves.
• 1938- Germany imposed gun control and about 6 million Jews lost their lives due to inability to defend themselves.
• 1935- China imposed gun control and about 20 million people died due to inability to defend themselves.
• 1964- Guatemala imposed gun control and almost 100,000 Mayan Indians lost their lives due to inability to defend themselves.
• 1970- Uganda imposed gun control and almost 300,000 Christians lost their lives due to inability to defend themselves.
• 1956- Cambodia imposed gun control and around 2,000,000 people, lost their lives due to inability to defend them. 1992-95 Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict; 200,000 dead[ii].

[i] Sommers, P. M. “Deterrence and Gun Control: An Empirical Analysis.” Atlantic Economic Journal 8 (1980): 89–94.

[ii] The Gun Zone. The True Face of Gun Control: The Mass Extermination of Humans in the 20th Century and even

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