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zipplewrath

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6. Wrong solution to a serious problem

Reply to HooptieWagon (Reply #4)

Fri Nov 15, 2013, 11:16 AM

Nov 2013

It was the wrong solution, but your point is valid, there was a very serious problem in the US.
MADD came along because there were still vestiges of the problem lingering well into the '70s and '80s. (Watch the movie Arthur in any modern context and it can make you wince).

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