Didn't read the column but guessing here that he used the standard argument about yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre.
One major problem is that if a right is regulated, it's important to see who's doing the regulating or it will quickly become throttling.
Interesting how it's always the Right's issues that need regulation or control, never the Left's. Just talk about reducing spending, welfare or abortions and out come the pictures of the oppressed masses crying rivers of anguish and despair.
Yep, he sure did, as well as "driving is a privilege."
If a right can be regulated, is it a right at all?
Remind me of one thing... which right in the BILL OF RIGHTS has a clause that states clearly, “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”?
“Didn’t read the column but guessing here that he used the standard argument about yelling “fire” in a crowded theatre.”
In his damning column metcalf did use the “fire” in a theater argument.
Yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is abuse of one’s right to free speech to cause a safety issue. That is criminal. Abusing one’s right to bear arms to cause a safety issue is also a crime. No regulation of either right is needed to prosecute the crimes that are committed by the abuser of those rights.
VERY LAME argument indeed. The use of that argument alone as an example of regulation is ignorant and should get him booted just because of his lack of understanding the language.
To anyone who suggests any relation at all between gun control and shouting "Fire" in a theater, I'd propose that the way to make them really equivalent is to require that duct-tape be put on the mouth of anyone who enters a theater. (If that doesn't bother them, perhaps cutting everyone's vocal cords would cross the line for them.)