Outlawing alcohol increases murder rates? I don't think so, but some do. I posted on a Facebook debate site about whether prohibition of alcohol is a deterrent to its usage, and was surprise that more than one poster suggested outlawing the stuff causes people commit more murders.
I then learned murder rates did, indeed, increase during the Prohibition.
But, I also learned that apparently the increase wasn't due to the Prohibition. Much of the increase came in the African-American communities, and the African-Americans were not much involved in running illegal alcohol.
http://druglibrary.org/prohibitionresults3.htm
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