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It's funny. Years ago, I was completely against the raids by the vice squad. But now the clubs need to give up. For someone to lose their life whether it was an accident or not is unacceptable.

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For someone to lose their life playing football is acceptable? To lose their life skydiving is acceptable? To lose their life flying a small private plan is ok? To lose their life scuba diving is ok?

There are risks to EVERYTHING we do. One death out of decades of playing makes it a nasty shock, not a reason to go post-9/11 insane.

You may make the decision regarding your own life and safety and play only in AC if that's your choice. Please don't make that choice on behalf of EVERYBODY. (Course your odds of getting killed driving to/from AC may actually be greater than the odds of getting killed from a poker robbery...but that's a topic for a different thread.)

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You've taken what I've said out of context. My point is that the clubs have become riskier. Which is why I made the comment that every club I know has been robbed at gunpoint. The shutting down of clubs is now about public safety and not about gambling and rights to recreation. That's my point. I'm sorry if I've offended any club owner, but that's just my opinion.

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I don't think I took it outta context. That's exactly my point... shutting down the clubs out of concerns for "public safety" because there's been one death in 30 years is reactionary. That'd be like shutting down every amusement park in the country because someone died on a roller coaster. I just don't happen to believe it should be yours or the DA's or whomever's decision that what I'm voluntarily engaging in is too unsafe to allow. Alas, yes it is very likely to be used as an excuse to try to clamp down even more.

'Course, legalizing it so it can be done in the open with real security and regular visits by police would also solve the problem. But we can't condone sinful activities like poker.