Problem Gamblers Not Excited About Online Gambling
Access
February
13, 2010
There were many
announcements and reports over the past couple of weeks regarding Loto
Quebec making online gambling part of their offerings. Everyone was
either for it because of all of the money that it would bring in for the
country, or they were against it – which was mostly the Kahnawake
commission because they didn’t understand why they were being shut out.
But in all of this talking, there wasn’t much about the fact that they
were not offering online gambling to anyone and everyone who wanted it.
This is where the problem gamblers have, well, a problem. They say that
they live in areas where they might not be able to get near a casino for
a reason, and now that they are offering online gambling they have just
brought it into their living rooms. They say that allowing addicts this
much access to gambling is truly a recipe for disaster as many of them
are not able to keep themselves from gambling now – except to live very
far away from it.
They decided to either take themselves out of the equation by moving
because they couldn’t live near one, or they put themselves on the list
of people who needed to be banned from the casinos – all because of the
fact that they are aware that they have a problem. Online gambling not
only ruins that for them in terms of someone keeping them from gambling
– but they have literally left them to their own devices to police
themselves.
This is just a bad idea across the board. They want online gambling kept
illegal because they understand that by allowing access to the online
gambling arena that they have just opened them up to a whole lot of
problems.
