--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > Seems to me that today's climate is not a good one for > > taking even tentative steps toward reducing anybody's > > civil liberties > > Despite saying what you do above about reducing civil liberties, > below in two places you advocate doing exactly that: > > - gun control (although you do not advocate it in this particular > circumstance) which is a civil liberty in the 2nd amendment; and > > - freedom of the press (publishing Cho's photo) which is a civil > liberty in the 1st amendment.
Nope, wrong on both counts. Gun *control* (as opposed to a gun ban) doesn't infringe on the 2nd Amendment. And freedom of the press means the *government* cannot interfere with the press, not that the press can't decide on its own what it will and will not publish.
