CryptidGrimnoir t1_iw962ud wrote
Reply to comment by earhere in Suspect in custody following fatal shooting of 12-year-old, 14-year-old also injured in Colorado shooting by spiceponey
Well, there's an actual process for how that's supposed to happen. The Constitution defines how it's actually to be amended and it's meant to be as hard as possible.
It's not meant to be done on the whims of the populace duped into believing misleading statistics from a media hellbent on spreading fear for ratings or from statists obsessed with accumulating power.
And let me ask you something--would you be so willing to ditch the protections for the 1st Amendment? After all, the Constitution is not infallible.
earhere t1_iw96vc8 wrote
What does the 1st amendment have to do with this conversation? The first amendment doesn't lead to a school shooting. Being able to call the president a piece of shit without cops beating you up and sending you to jail doesn't have anything to do with a teenager buying an assault rifle to blow away people at a school.
CryptidGrimnoir t1_iw9825g wrote
>What does the 1st amendment have to do with this conversation?
You're demanding we throw out the 2nd Amendment. It's only fair that I bring up amendments you don't want to see changed.
>The first amendment doesn't lead to a school shooting.
Actually, it could very well do so.
Sociologists have pleaded for years for the media to not report so heavily on tragedies--including school shootings--for fear of encouraging copycats.
The media tends not to listen.
>Being able to call the president a piece of shit without cops beating you up and sending you to jail doesn't have anything to do with a teenager buying an assault rifle to blow away people at a school.
Actual assault rifles are heavily regulated and have been so for forty years and cost thousands and thousands of dollars to purchase.
And what might encourage that teenager is seeing report after report in the news where they turn the shooter into a legend.
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