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[Brian37]

FFS, speech is regulated too. News stations that use public airwaves have to have broadcasting licensing. I know, I have interned in TV and worked in Radio. I would have gotten fired from the radio station I worked at if I said "fuck" on air.  Cable tv shows like Real Time are regulated differently and don't rely on public airwaves. You can even be fined for not playing station IDs at the legal time required. 

Even if one runs a private media network, it is still a business, and still requires a business license. Regulations are not calls for bans. Just like having health inspectors check a restaurant is not a call to ban selling food. 

You also cannot shout fire in a theatre if there is none.

The FCC does NOT have a list of words you can't say on the air - numbnuts....  The determination of what can be said is " community standards". They do not regulate or license speech.

And the shouting fire in a theater bit is just fucking stupid. It's simply illegal. Having a license wouldn't make it any different. Were it so - your license to own guns would give you permission to shoot people.

Dumbass

"Community standards" is still a regulation numbnuts. The first amendment does not ban regulations on speech. It only protects your right to dissent peacefully. It does not give you the right to call for murder of others, or incite insurrection. SO YEA, speech can be and is regulated. Dissent peacefully, is a REGULATION. If free speech were absolute, one could call for murder of others or insurrection. 

The far right nuts really do want it to be legal to shoot people and get away with it if they had their way. "Stand your ground" laws are fucking bullshit. They allow assholes to shoot first and claim fear after. Trevon Martin died needlessly because a Rambo asshole wanted to play police. 

Having laws that require licenses for firearms is not a violation of either the first or second amendment. Just like having laws against drinking and driving isn't banning drinking, or driving, but merely a REGULATION that you cannot do both at the same time. 

There is no violation of your rights for say banning firearms from passenger cabins or nursing homes. There also would not be a ban on firearms if one were to limit clip size or volume of firearms one can own. Just like we no longer sell cars that burn leaded gas isn't a ban on auto sales.

Stop harping on the 2nd Amendment. It isn't going away. But they also wrote that when they only had muskets. Things have changed since then.



Gun owners on the extreme far right confuse selfishness as fighting for "rights".