Reply With QuoteAm I misunderstanding things? Because the Second and First Amendments AREN'T THE SAME THING...
So, this:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/0...zona-shooting/
The comments section is interesting, mind you. I mean, the guy makes a comment that is only a hair's width away from actually threatening politicians' lives, then the police shows up and DOES find loads of guns, and people still say he's got a right to act as he did. I think "freedom of speech" has become synonymous for "not taking responsibility for your words".
On the upside, this is for those people that think whatever is written on the Internet somehow doesn't count. The folks from comicsalliance.com ARE reporters, what they write informs people and makes them think. Props to them.
Am I misunderstanding things? Because the Second and First Amendments AREN'T THE SAME THING...
True dat. Way I see it he made a threat, especially considering the climate he made his statement in. This is not covered by the first amendment. And since he, by stating a threat, has proven that he is liable to abuse his second amendment rights, he got his guns taken away from him. The first amendment doesn't even come into play here.
Freedom of speech has limits.
This is, and should be, one of them.
If people don't like it, they are free to not like it.
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." --Benito Mussolini
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country." --Thomas Jefferson
There's a discussion about it here: http://www.606studios.com/bendisboar...d.php?t=202730
The reporter from this guy's area wrote me last night and asked my comments for this story. Why she picked me, I have no idea.
This whole thing started with a comicalliance.com editorial. The editorial featured, in large typeface, your tweet about the guy having no soul.Originally Posted by Gail Simone
Right Wing America has had a hard time understanding the difference between having your free speech rights trampled on and having people react to your free speech.
No one ever said Sarah Pailin didn't have the right to use horrible rhetoric. She does. Other people, also in possession of a right to free speech, then challenge that horrible rhetoric. That's not infringing on her rights, its exercising theirs.
No one is saying that Heavy Ink dude doesn't have the right to say stupid shit, but we can say that his stupid shit has us just a little bit worried about what he'll do with his fire arms. We should probably exercise the "well regulated" part of the second amendment just to be safe.
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Not right wing America. Radical America is the proper term.
Part of the reason people are objecting I suspect is that they have incomplete information. What got the most publicity was his line "It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot 'indiscriminately'. Target only politicians and their staff, and leave regular citizens alone." That sentence isn't a threat, it's just terrible. The police are reacting to his "1 down, 534 to go" remark, which is a threat.
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