Just once I would love to see some conservative state take the “reasonable” gun laws and apply them, line by line to the press. High Speed Printers capable of more than 100 PPM would need special licenses, reporting will require a license and a 3 day state training class, etc.
It would be fun to do this without copping to the fact that it was paraphrased gun laws. Watch the press scream, then point out it’s just the same reasonable laws they (lib press) are always supporting for the 2nd applied to their beloved 1st.
Watch the fur fly the first time some smart-ass says
“high speed assault printers, printers of mass distribution such as those used by the New York Times could be very dangerous in the wrong hands. Look, Hitler owned newspapers, without his newspapers the holocaust could never have happened. We need to prevent another Hitler from gaining access to High Speed Assault Printers again, surely everyone can agree on this sensible regulation”
Laughing I was thinking the same driving to the office today.
I thought I would ask John Semmons if he could do satirical piece along these lines
Journalists don't love the First Amendment.What they love is themselves; they think they are "the press" - even tho books, for example, are obviously covered by the term "the press."
That matters because what they actually go for, in unconstitutional "laws" like McCain-Feingold, is not rights for all but special privilegesfor themselves.IOW, they want "the press" to be considered a title of nobility exclusively for themselves. And they expect to define who is "a member of the press"" and who is not.