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Dustlawyer

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3. If there is a compelling government interest and the law is narrowly tailored to achieve that

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 09:24 PM

Oct 2015

interest you can restrict certain speech. The example used is shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater when there is no fire.

I am not interested in banning other details of the shooting, I think that they may be helpful. I am only talking about the thing that attracts many of these narcissist or racists to this terrible type of crime, the fame or publicity they draw to themselves or their cause.

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Let's pass a law banning any dissemination of the name, background, and motivation [View all] Dustlawyer Oct 2015 OP

Such a law would violate the First Amendment. Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #1

If there is a compelling government interest and the law is narrowly tailored to achieve that Dustlawyer Oct 2015 #3

That's a HUUUUGE If. nt Xipe Totec Oct 2015 #10

What is the compelling government interest? onenote Oct 2015 #14

What motivates these mass killers is varied, but many of the reasons can be tied to Dustlawyer Oct 2015 #16

You'd censor the motives for such killings? onenote Oct 2015 #20

What's funny is that "fire in a crowded theater" was overturned a few decades later. NuclearDem Oct 2015 #15

Why is not wanting any further information only an issue when the mass murderer is a RW white guy? Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #2

White guys like Cho, Nidal and Alexis? Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #4

Where do you get the "only a white guy" part? Dustlawyer Oct 2015 #5

2 Yes to 14 No in your push poll..... Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #7

Let's not. nt Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2015 #6

No. Way too easy to abuse. Shandris Oct 2015 #8

Sorry! Not only nope, but HELL NOPE! nt longship Oct 2015 #9

Utter Bullshit Special Prosciuto Oct 2015 #11

I don't think my proposed law would change a damn thing about his motivation the kill Dustlawyer Oct 2015 #13

No absolutely not rbrnmw Oct 2015 #12

Not a law but an agreement among media outlets to deprive the killers of the notoriety they seek Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #17

I could live with that, and it appears that might be palatable to most, but Dustlawyer Oct 2015 #18

I agree, no law but a agreement that it causes more shootings. Nt Logical Oct 2015 #19