[Vocabulary] forgetting

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I'm reading an article called ""Drinking Age Has Simply Got to Go," Say Campus Riots" by Pamela White.
I have one question.

"Instead of taking the logical step and backing off, we now have tougher drinking laws and more rigid enforcement, forgetting, I suppose, that Prohibition has never worked and never will."

What does "forgetting" mean at here?

 

[teechar]

It means and we are forgetting.
Note also that if you have a quote within a quote, use single quotation marks for one and double quotation marks for the other.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I'm reading an article called "'Drinking Age Has Simply Got to Go,' Say Campus Rioters" by Pamela White.
I have one question.

"Instead of taking the logical step and backing off, we now have tougher drinking laws and more rigid enforcement, forgetting, I suppose, that prohibition has never worked and never will."

What does "forgetting" mean [STRIKE]at[/STRIKE] here?

- forgetting the fact that prohibition doesn't work.
- ignoring the reality that prohibition doesn't work.
- neglecting the lesson that prohibition doesn't work.

We're forgetting that prohibition doesn't work.