tenuous at best

Restricting liquor licences is not the panacea for eliminating alcohol related violence.
In 1958 Dwight Heath, a Yale graduate student, published an article on drinking patterns of the Camba people in Bolivia. The Camba people drank far more alcohol than most people yet their society was free of all the other failings that Australia would associate with excessive alcohol consumption. The Camba would drink 178-proof(89%) ethanol produced form local sugar plantations. Most drinking happened on weekends or holidays and would follow a tight ritual. Drunkenness was a placid affair; people would pass out and then casually re-join the drinking. Aggression, be it verbal, physical, sexual or otherwise was non-existent.
Also in the 50’s the Yale Centre of Alcohol Studies was seeing an interesting trend in admissions to the alcohol treatment clinic. They noticed that members of the Italian-American community were admitted in much smaller numbers as compared to the Irish-American community. This was despite the alcohol consumption in both communities being at about the same level. Mark Keller from the Centre wrote “That drinking must precede alcoholism is obvious. Equally obvious, but not always sufficiently considered, is the fact that drinking is not necessarily followed by alcoholism.” From further research they were able to determine that the Italian-Americans , like the Camba, followed a strict social structure around drinking and that this social structure broke down in 3^rd and 4^th generation Italian-Americans who were then drinking like everyone else.
Anthropologists Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton once wrote “Persons learn about drunkenness what their societies import to them, and comporting themselves in consonance with these understandings, they become living confirmations of their society’s teachings.” Somehow our society has created this problem and it’s not from the accessibility of alcohol. I’m only speculating, I may be right or wrong, but I believe these behaviours are re-enforced by the partner choice preferences of low socioeconomic females who reward aggression and violence.
Drinking occasions: comparative perspectives on alcohol and culture By Dwight B. Heath
Drinking Games: http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2010-02-15#folio=070