The Search for Cheer
It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat.
That's not the topic sentence in a pulp fiction novel, it represents just how far some government bureaucrats will go when they declare "game on."
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition
The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.
You can file this story under "Reasoning Behind The 2nd Amendment." The story also points out the truthful fact that the act of passing a law doesn't solve a behavioral problem.
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