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General Category => National/Breaking News => Second Amendment => Topic started by: Idaho_Cowboy on September 22, 2016, 05:43:07 pm

Title: Both a defeat for free speech and a win for gun-control advocates
Post by: Idaho_Cowboy on September 22, 2016, 05:43:07 pm
Both a defeat for free speech and a win for gun-control advocates
By Noah Feldman Bloomberg View
Published Sept. 22, 2016
Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0916/feldman092216.php3#O5XjfjPlpzxv7txi.99

Can the government block the online publication of files that let anyone make an assault rifle on a 3-D printer? In a defeat for free speech and a win for gun-control advocates, an appeals court has said yes. The court declined to suspend a State Department regulation that treats posting the files as a foreign export of munitions. Although the impulse to block the easy creation of untraceable weapons is admirable, the court got it wrong. The First Amendment can't tolerate a prohibition on publishing unclassified information -- even if the information is potentially harmful....
Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0916/feldman092216.php3#O5XjfjPlpzxv7txi.99
Title: Re: Both a defeat for free speech and a win for gun-control advocates
Post by: geronl on September 22, 2016, 06:04:36 pm
A law-abiding American should be able to make their own weapons.
Title: Re: Both a defeat for free speech and a win for gun-control advocates
Post by: sneakypete on September 22, 2016, 06:08:31 pm
A law-abiding American should be able to make their own weapons.

@geronl

Yes,but our "friends" in the Republicrat Party neatly solve that problem by declaring it is illegal,thereby making anyone to makes their own weapons a criminal.

You can always take one away from a policeman/Policewoman/Policemultiple choice if you want one,though.
Title: Re: Both a defeat for free speech and a win for gun-control advocates
Post by: driftdiver on September 22, 2016, 06:23:49 pm
A law-abiding American should be able to make their own weapons.

I can make my own weapon without this file.  The file would make it much easier though.
Title: Re: Both a defeat for free speech and a win for gun-control advocates
Post by: Free Vulcan on September 22, 2016, 06:37:36 pm
Well great, let's get rid of all 'harmful' speech and make the country one giant safe space. Great door to a slippery slope they've opened here.