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To: FreedomPoster

The Founding Fathers never envisioned high speed automatic printing presses shooting out hundreds of pages per minute!

Perhaps it’s time for some common sense restrictions on the 1st Amendment?

/S


11 posted on 07/27/2025 5:26:47 AM PDT by MMusson ( )
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To: MMusson

News should be broadcast with Broad sheets, hand presses and town criers. Religion should be limited to ONLY those churches in the States in 1776.
Same for firearms? I like our modern state of affairs.


13 posted on 07/27/2025 6:07:55 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: MMusson

“never envisioned high speed automatic printing presses”

Yes, the same illogic used to attack the 2nd amendment can just as easily be applied to the others.

The emotional “argument” 2A detractors make with questions like “So you think people should have nuclear weapons?” should always be answered in kind.

The fact that technology has evolved to create a scenario not originally envisioned, or for which the constricts of the enumerated powers do not provide “adequate” controls, does not, therefore, give license to government tyrants to forever act in the breach to restrict the so-called danger. They must amend the constitution, or pass legislation in keeping with the powers granted them.

But this they will not do. To take away 2A rights through judicial fiat, administrative burdens, etc., also make it far easier to eliminate other rights under the same pretexts.


14 posted on 07/27/2025 6:49:39 AM PDT by SeƱor Presidente (Tyranny deserves insurrection)
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