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To: pnh102
Should we ban guns,

Strawman.

The 1st Amendment does not give people the right to be profane. The bottom line is that public airwaves need to be regulated. We have become a coarse society that will not get any better by allowing profane language on TV and radio.

22 posted on 07/16/2010 7:45:37 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Strawman.

Hardly. You're making the argument that our rights should be infringed for the public good. If we use your reasoning, then every right granted to us by our Creator is at risk for the same reasons, including our right to keep and bear firearms.

The 1st Amendment does not give people the right to be profane.

Nothing in the Constitution grants any rights to anyone. The first amendment says that Congress may not abridge our freedom of speech, among other things. How is the FCC's disallowing of certain content fitting in with that? It doesn't.

The original intent of the FCC was to regulate airwaves so that radio and later TV stations would not interfere with one another. As these airwaves span state lines, this is a perfectly reasonable and legal use of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution to regulate who uses which frequency. This cannot, and must not, twist into the ability for the FCC to limit free speech.

23 posted on 07/16/2010 7:52:56 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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