Glad downtown Irvine is free of pool rooms and billiards

I remember the pool rooms of the 1970s and 1980s. Pool rooms are often locations for drug dealing, bootlegging and assaults. People have been murdered in pool rooms over the years.

I encourage the city council to ban allow any more pool rooms. A man was shot by police in front of a pool room in 1984. In 2003, a man was murdered in a pool room in Ravenna. Fights and assaults often occur in these seedy places. A pool room owner downtown shot and crippled his girlfriend in the late 1990s. I could go on. But the behavior at our pool rooms over the decade has been disgraceful and embarassing.

It is time for some clean entertainment. A youth center. A skating rink. A bowling alley. An operation that would be operated by respectable people. A venture by someone with the money to provide a safe atmosphere for those attending the business.

If the only entertainment we are allowed to have here is these seedy pool rooms, then let's go to Richmond for entertainment. We don't need someone murdered or injured in a billiard!!