Posted on 07/22/2012 9:00:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Every American student who's taken a civic class has heard Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s admonition that free speech under the US Constitution doesn't give you the right to shout "fire" in a crowded theater.
So the right to bear arms under the 2nd amendment - - written at a time when citizen militias might be needed to fend off the British or a foreign power intent on undermining the new Republic - - shouldn't mean someone has the right to barge into a crowded theater, open fire and slaughter people with powerful guns and ammunition obtained legally.
Yet we have allowed the NRA and allied wealthy conservative organizations with political and electoral agendas to distort legitimate gun ownership for hunting purposes into gun ownership without effective controls that jeopardizes public safety.
Bill Moyers has an eloquent essay about this, here.
The proof is the disproportionate share of the industrialized world's gun violence that afflicts the US, year-in and year-out.
These massacres bring concern for victims, but no remedial controls: the Aurora shootings came but five years after a higher death toll in a mass shooting at Virginia Tech, and Colorado did not toughen its gun laws after the Columbine school killings not far from Aurora...
(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...
Please tell me what laws would have prevented this.
OWH was fos, you can do anything you want, what he neglected to say was that there are repercussions for doing it.
BTW, you can yell fire in a crowded theater with no repercussions...if there really is a fire.
In fact, if you knew there was a fire and didn't warn the peoples you would be responsible for the consequences.
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What are they talking about?
American students don’t take civics classes anymore. These kids today have no idea who Oliver Wendell Holmes was.
What a turd. Does anyone disagree that “the right to bear arms under the 2nd amendment...shouldn’t mean someone has the right to barge into a crowded theater, open fire and slaughter people with powerful guns and ammunition obtained legally?”
So what if someone DOES run into a theater and shouts, “FIRE!” What do we ban, his tonsils? Rowen is a moron.
Tossing a handful of lit firecrackers into a Batman matinee this weekend would probably be prosecutable as a top-level felony.
And that has what to do with my comment?
Will some Democrats try to push Obama into addressing gun control in the next few months?
“The proof is the disproportionate share of the industrialized world’s gun violence that afflicts the US, year-in and year-out. “
Stupid liberals. The only PROOF here is that liberals once again have proven they are violent idiots. We should ban liberalism and send them to re-education camps where we can deprogram them from the communist proganda they get day in and day out.
I hope so, they lost the public on that issue more than a decade ago, and a presidential election (2000) to boot.
What are they talking about?
American students don’t take civics classes anymore. These kids today have no idea who Oliver Wendell Holmes was.
From the comment section, it doesn’t appear that MJS readers buy this crap either.
Nothing could have prevented this.
The entitlement mentality fed by liberal politicians and the LSM have given people like Holmes the idea that they can do as they please. Hollywood is the fuse and liberal hatemongers are the fire.
Liberals scream gun control and one of their koolaid drinkers is more than willing to step-up and give them fuel for the fire. I find it strange that the moment a liberal pol. starts talking about GC, then something like this happens. Gabby Giffords was their first poster child. Now they will have 12 more innocents to add. Never let a crisis go to waste.
Sure took attention away from F&F and security leaks though.
God bless all the victims of this mad man.
We could tape their mouth shut, so they could never speak again, forever.....many here justify that remedy for our 2A rights.
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