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clydefrand

(4,325 posts) Tue Dec 18, 2012, 02:17 PM Dec 2012

Lets allow all guns available in 1791

Note especially what weapons could be, and what they weren't:

http://columbiaacs.blogspot.com/2007/11/right-to-bear-ye-olde-arms.html

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Lets allow all guns available in 1791 (Original Post) clydefrand Dec 2012 OP

Well now, there's an original idea. slackmaster Dec 2012 #1

This remains a horrible argument cthulu2016 Dec 2012 #2

Should that same limitation apply to the 1st Amendment as well? Only protect free speech kelly1mm Dec 2012 #3

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)

1. Well now, there's an original idea.

Reply to clydefrand (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 02:18 PM

Dec 2012

Never been proposed before.

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)

2. This remains a horrible argument

Reply to clydefrand (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 02:21 PM

Dec 2012

And an ironic one to make on the internet, which is not a 1790s printing press, yet mysteriously protected by the 1st Amendment..

kelly1mm

(4,733 posts)

3. Should that same limitation apply to the 1st Amendment as well? Only protect free speech

Reply to clydefrand (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 02:35 PM

Dec 2012

if done by voice, newspaper, or book, as opposed to the internet, radio, or CD's? Since we are talking about limiting civil rights to only those technologies that existed in 1791, that would be appropriate, right?

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