“It strikes me as ironic that the first question is constitutionality from a press that has no problem demonizing firearms,” Pitts said. “With this statement I’m talking primarily about printed press and TV. The TV stations, the six o’clock news and the printed press has no qualms demonizing gun owners and gun ownership.” [More]Sit down, Bill Rogers of the SC Press Association, and all the reading-challenged, conclusion-jumping idiots in comments who are too thick to realize the guy is just making a point -- a rather good one, actually -- to illustrate "Authorized Journalist" incompetence and hypocrisy.
[Via Jake S]
UPDATE: Indignant Idiot here fell for it. And now is desperately trying to backpedal after realizing everybody got the point but him.
I did not see any arguments that this "modest proposal" imposed "reasonable restrictions", or was "common sense" press control, as if that would have made it acceptable.
ReplyDeleteBut it's different - 'journalists' are special!
ReplyDeleteThough with the pen being mightier than the sword (... or 'assault weapon' ...) the ides does have considerable merit.
Perhaps the registration of journalists could be effected by Presidential Executive Order? Purely to circumvent Constitutional issues of course ...
Ma Duce
"The 1st Amendment protects a free press, yet journalists can be sued for libel, right? The 2nd Amendment protects gun ownership, but does anyone believe 3-year-olds or convicted murderers are actually entitled to carry firearms? Neither freedom is absolute.”
ReplyDeleteWhat a moron. Libel is a crime because it damages someone. Carrying a firearm is not a crime — it hurts no one. Assault and murder with a firearm are already crimes, because they damage someone. They are the same “limitation” on the Second Amendment that libel is on the First. You have to make sure your analogies are equivalent.
But that’s not what “journalists” do. They subscribe to the theory that Eugene Volokh describes as, “All rights are subject to reasonable restrictions. This is a restriction. Therefore, it is reasonable."