Posted on 10/27/2021 5:34:20 AM PDT by rellimpank
Many Americans fervently believe that the Second Amendment protects their right to bear arms everywhere, including at public protests. Many Americans also believe that the First Amendment protects their right to speak freely and participate in political protest. What most people do not realize is that the Second Amendment has become, in recent years, a threat to the First Amendment. People cannot freely exercise their speech rights when they fear for their lives.
This is not hyperbole. Since January 2020, millions of Americans have assembled in public places to protest police brutality, systemic racism, and coronavirus protocols, among other things. A significant number of those protesters were confronted by counterprotesters visibly bearing firearms. In some of these cases, violence erupted. According to a new study by Everytown for Gun Safety and the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), one in six armed protests that took place from January 2020 through June 2021 turned violent or destructive, and one in 62 turned deadly.
These kind of data fill a void in ongoing debates about the compatibility of free speech and firearms at protest events. For example, is the phenomenon of armed protests new? Is it frequent? The open display of firearms at public protests, including long rifles and what are sometimes called “assault-style rifles,” is a relatively new phenomenon. Although many states allow firearms in public places, until recently few Americans have openly toted firearms to political demonstrations. The Everytown/ACLED study examined thousands of protests, showing a marked uptick in protests at which people were visibly armed following the police murder of George Floyd. It found that at least
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Those that believe “The Second Amendment Has Become a Threat to the First” understand neither.
i just came here to laugh at the author.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The traitors in DC and throughout the land are a threat to America.
Fixed it.
Leftists are a threat to mankind. Using their logic they should be removed.
Meaning the Biden thugs threatening the point of a gun to suppress freedom of choice.
No, using their logic, they should all immediately remove themselves.
Getting the National Guard to storm Washington was a good example.
I give you Exhibit A as Australia where the citizens have no firearms and they're experiencing government brutality to silence their protests.
Anyone who needs this explained to them is either a loyal Dim voter or a LSU fan.
Yes, the second protects the first.
This is a textbook example of a composition fallacy.
If you think this is a persuasive argument for gun control you are not a smart person.
Spoiler Alert: The Dems do not believe in the First Amendment either.
Our speech is violence. Their violence is speech.
They see sane-minded, armed citizens as impediments to their radicalism.
“January 2020 through June 2021 turned violent or destructive, and one in 62 turned deadly.”
Yes, because of BLM & Antifa...but let’s leave that distinction out eh?
They’re terrified Kyle will be found not guilty and empower gun owners to confront murderers at protests.
The Second protects all the rest... Including the First.
It’s not guns you stupid twits.
It’s Twitter and cancel culture and BLM and LGBT domestic terrorists.
Guns aren’t stopping speech at all.
They’re the only thing stopping YOU and defending our freedoms you’re gleefully trying to steal.
People already can or speak freely due to the left.
That includes addressing people with, ‘Hey you!’ somehow becoming a sexual slur.
That includes standing up for what you, an individual, believes somehow becoming a political threat.
That includes where the individual’s right to each their own religious/spiritual belief becoming a crime by the mob.
That includes where a citizen’s love for his country becomes labeling him as a domestic terrorist.
Lastly, it is where military veterans are now lauded as people with misguided intentions, and need to be defamed.
There would be no First Amendment without the Second Amendment.
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