o earlier by creating a huge business opportunities for the hard-working little guy, rather than the large corporations. I suppose you could venture to say prohibition was like a modern time welfare. By saying this I mean rather than making the rich richer and the poor poorer, prohibition helped the poor lift themselves from poverty without the help of the rich. Also prohibition had many benefits beyond the obvious. Instead of staying home and getting drunk men and women alike could get drunk in the company of other men. They can even get drunk with the local police officer. This contributed to trust within the community and a trust of authority figures. Now, not only did the little guy see a business opportunity but the mob did too, and their involvement was getting strong. This was bad for the little guy because, what the mob did is, they would say to the little guy, you will sell your alcohol to me and I’m not paying more than (whatever) for it. Then they would make the bootlegger sell at a loss for them. If the little guy didn’t want to sell they had some trouble coming for them. The reason the mob did this is because they wanted to control all the alcohol going into a specific city. As you can imagine this brought forth some fairly large confrontations between rival gangs. One of the most notorious gangsters of all is Al Capone. He was part of one of the most notorious gang massacres of this time. On February 14, Valentine’s Day, Four members of Al Capone’s gang Trapped seven members of their rival gang, headed by "Bugs" Moran, and brutally shot them in cold blood. Capone’s gang, dressed as policemen, cornered Moran’s gang members near a Chicago warehouse. They then told them to place their hands on the wall. Moran’s men, under the assumption that this was a routine police check, obeyed without resistance. Capone’s men then pulled out sawed off shotguns and sub-machine guns and shot t...
