Almost weekly, a new story moves over the wires, and all of those stories bring bad news about the industry, those who profit from it or those who are suckered by it. The most the two groups can realistically hope for is a law forbidding people to do what they'll find ways to go right on doing, law or no law. The point isn't that gambling is sinful. The point is that gambling in most of its forms and habitats is stupid. Except, of course, for the house, whose business isn't gambling, but raking in money that once belonged to gamblers.
Information counts for more than generalizations, of course.
Not all will heed the lessons, no matter how succinct. But many will at least pause to think, and limit their bets as they temper their optimism. That means fewer paychecks squandered, fewer mortgage payments thrown away, fewer houses and jobs and families lost. Suppression has never worked. It's ironic that education has so seldom been given a chance to work.