A "high firepower weapons ban"

[thucythucy]

106. That's a ridiculous suggestion.

No American law would be able to prevent an overseas news source from reporting the name, which would then be rebroadcast all over the net.

Come to think of it, arrest records are public--that's part of our being an open society. Any civilian here could obtain the arrest record, and post the name. You keep telling us how absurd it is for the government to regulate guns, printers, etc., but now you're going to have the government regulate every blog and website?

Norman Mailer wrote a book about Lee Harvey Oswald, Truman Capote wrote a book about two mass murderers in the 1960s. You going to have the government ban what novelists and historians can write about? Someone produces a documentary on YouTube about a mass killer, you going to ban that too? A rock or hip hop group decides to write about a killer, you going to ban that as well? Talk about government intrusion on our rights!

And all in an effort to insure there are no further limits on gun ownership, which remains the one most precious inalienable right of all, and freedom of speech and the press be damned. How weird is that?