| | Excellent Online Casinos News Archive| Online Casinos and the Anti Gambling Lobby | | | Publication Date: 12 Apr 2006 | | Arguments for and against online casinos bounce like ping-pong balls across the floors of the legislation halls in the United States. Currently, a strong anti-gambling feeling pervades and it is interesting to see what it is that bothers so many people about online casinos. After all, there has to be good, sound reasons that warrant such strong reactions to online casinos and other gambling sites.
Take, for example, the opinions of James R. Leach, a Republican from Iowa who is serving his 15th term in congress. Leach is probably one of the most outspoken critics of online casinos in the United States today. He has pioneered legislation drafts which aim to ban online casinos altogether in the country. Some of the problems that Leach and his followers have with online casinos include the fact that they are too accessible to the general public as they can be played 24 hours a day from the players' homes and that there is a risk that children can access them as well. Leach is also of the opinion that gambling at online sites could lead to addiction, bankruptcy and crime.
Leach's sentiments about online casinos are shared by millions of Americans. Religious groups also play a large part in pushing for anti-gambling laws and they preach that all gambling, whether done at online casinos or land-based casinos, is immoral and should be eradicated from our society. |
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