“Market solutions.” Increase price of behavior you want to discourage. Glad to see another republican market stooge see the light.
Why do people drink too much? It's complicated. Genetics plays a role, culture too, childhood abuse, the anomie of modern society, etc etc etc. How did we reduce drunk driving? We didn't address ANY of those problems. We just increased penalties for drinkers and servers.
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Which legislation are you referring to?
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This is an excellent analogy. Alcohol use way up since 1992, abuse/dependency up too (though not as steeply as use.) https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/10/542409957/drinking-on-the-rise-in-u-s-especially-for-women-minorities-older-adults …
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Yet drunk driving way down over the last 25 years. Clearly the laws (and the social attitudes) about drunk driving matter https://www.responsibility.org/alcohol-statistics/drunk-driving-statistics/drunk-driving-fatality-statistics/ …
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I bet if we put our heads together we could think of something. I don't think the constitution has to be a suicide pact.
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I’m missing your point here.
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Laws criminalizing the behaviors worked, up to a point. The point is that regulating gun sales would also make a difference.pic.twitter.com/yzQJpqeV5t
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