There are some good reasons for it: 1. It creates paranoia and irrationality on people of less intellectual inclination. 2. It serves as harmful pro-"gun control" propaganda which appeals to the people above who value visceral fear and emotion over reason, facts, logic, and such. I don't give a **** about the 1st Amendment, which is basically trash the majority of the time its invoked, the 1st Amendment should be subordinate to amendments like the 2nd Amendment which are related to more important social issues like self-defense and national security. (As opposed to the 1st, which is often just used to legitimatize pornography and prurient content). So if we have to kill of the 1st to preserve the 2nd and more vital amendments, then go for it, and if people who pass off harmful reporting and gun control propaganda go to prison for it, then good riddance as well.
You're in a state with legal weed, yeah? No. We don't further empower the state to revoke even more of our guaranteed liberties. Really really bad idea.
The state can change whatever it wants, and the rights guranteed by the Constitution are all able to be changed or amended provided people go through the process of doing so. So yes, I'd be totally fine with amending the first amendment in favor of more vital ones such as the 2nd or the 5th.
how about we publish every gory detail, including the twisted sexual fantasies of their impotent incel perpetrators, the family and friends who failed the jerk off who pulled the trigger rather than solving his problems rationally. special emphasis on the law enforcement who ignored the obvious red flags shown by mass shooters and allowed then to acquire and keep weapons.
The only merit I can see is possibly preventing copy cats....but no, bad idea. What's next on the ban list?
LOTS of us Americans are wondering the same thing, and the conclusions we're coming to are less than comforting...Balkanization on methamphetamines, and we've seen how THAT plays out historically....
The problem is: who gets to decide what is acceptable speech and what is not? There's always that treacherous power-mad human element...
There is no peaceful future for America as she exists presently. A divorce is the only cure, in my humble opinion. Let democrats/liberals run and pay for their communities and let republicans/conservatives run and pay for their communities. If a liberal winds up living in a republican/conservative Country and they don't like it, they are free to shut up and move - and vice versa a republican living in the liberal Country. So for instance - Texas would obviously be the Capital State of The Conservative States of America, and all the liberals in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and a good part of Dallas would have to shut up and get out. So you see, there IS, in fact, a way to have peaceful, safe, civilized communities. A Country just has to have the courage to do it.
Like to inject something- that is relating to " It creates paranoia and irrationality on people of less intellectual inclination.". I think it is often the opposite; that those who think they are intellectually superior tends to be the ones reacting irrationally. This is like the people who seem to be thinking that others are responsible for your emotional reactions to something they say, and therefor you have the right to silence or punish them- Cancel culture. Various terms we are distorting- insisting gender is a fluid choice, that mothers be called "birthing persons", and the whole load of crap that is coming out of Universities with liberal professors peddling nothing less than- moral propaganda. Everyday people real people who are the mainstream of society aren't the ones freaking out; it's the people who assume their intelligence is superior... but can't use common sense.
I think this is a horrible idea and I am a huge gun nut. The second is no excuse to ban the first. How about hold up all the constitution rather than just some of it. If you cherry pick so will they
ALL the amendments are important and have meaning. FYI, as the federal government frequently demonstrates, it don't need to change any law, it just disregards any law it wishes. It usurps power as it pleases. Madison's romantic notion that the unelected and independent judiciary would be the last bulwark against tyranny has been utterly wasted. The independent judiciary is fully involved with trashing the rule of law in this country.
How about we ban reporting on "mass shootings"? Who are "we?" Government isn't allowed to ban any reporting.
Better idea, just have incels legally treated the same ways as Jews were under Nazi Germany and that would probably solve the problem.
It can be easily proven that death from violence is not a common or likely cause of death, and that non-violent deaths, such as in car accidents" are a much greater risk. The problem though is that people who elect to be and act irrational fear catastrophes irrationally, and harmful propaganda such as which promotes fear of gun violence, global warming alarmist nonsense, and so on naturally appeals to these types of individuals. The problem is that the propaganda in question isn't "moral", and the ones peddling it are morally and intellectually ineffectual - but actual "moral propaganda" itself isn't automatically a bad thing per se in my opinion. Propaganda that discourages and shames individuals who promote pseudoscientific biological denialism and unnecessary self-harm against nonconsenting minors disguised as sexual reassignment therapy or surgery should be shamed and shunned by society, for reasons similar to why people who promote rape or child molestation and other (rightfully) unacceptable behavior and views should.
