Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy