Won the repeal of age-based gambling laws cause a whole generation of young gamblers to bet their lives away?
Gambling is not just an activity that goes on in casinos. Age restrictions on gambling prevent young employees from joining their workplace lottery pools and participating in community bingo games or other fundraisers, or sharing the excitement of horse races. Gambling is often a group activity from which young people are excluded. If a young person doesn’t have any money, he can’t gamble. If a parent gives the young person money for a specific purpose (say, buying lunch at school), there’s a very low probability that he or she will take the $5 and run off to Las Vegas. But young people who work and earn the money on their own should be able to do as they please with it. Even gamble. Even buy glow-in-the-dark sneakers. You earn it, you spend it. Isn’t that the American Way?
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