The moment that they allow gambling businesses to operate in their country , and the amount they are gathering in taxations and other stuffs of collections from those businesses , there i put it that they must be blame because they are also responsible to why there is a chance to gamble.
it is like when the government allows liquors and cigarettes then they are also responsible in health issues of those who smokes and drink so why not gambling/
i don't directly blame them but at least they are also part of those cases .
I would guess that considering how many "bad" things are allowed in a nation, I am not sure why casino was considered the worst one. I mean when you think about it, sure you could lose your money when you gamble and that could lead you to not have a good life, but also drinking and smoking can kill you and that means you literally have no life, you are dead.
So, the government basically says "these things that will kill you are fine, but this place that will take your money is not fine", that's literally all there is to the illegality of gambling and I never really found it sensible. I mean how could someone that will kill you can be free and allowed so easily, and yet something that just takes your money, that's it, is illegal?