Gambling is a terrible sin, and the wages of every sin leads to death.  It's a sin because it makes a honest man depend on the "luck of the draw" rather than divine providence in God to supply for their every need.  Gambling is most insidious because it targets those in a weakened economic state.  Those who are barely making ends meet are prone to "bet it all" on winning (and then, of course, lose).  

The only people who get rich from gambling are the people who own such institutions.  They are a parasite which sucks the life from an economy, leaves an impoverished community, then when all the wealth is sucked out of an area, will leave it to its final destruction of addiction and crime.  Gambling produces no products, no service, it is a form of addictive entertainment which will only cost people their property, their happiness, and even their lives.  The idea of gambling costing even a single family it's happy place in the world is enough of an incentive for me to never permit a single form of gambling within the state.  

And I pray this "God, let those in charge see your will, and if they swerve from it, then judge their disobedience and hold harmless those who obey you."  Amen.