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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dumbasses bait other dumbasses.[/quote]THIS! Of course it was wrong for the gunmen to show up and start shooting. Nobody is denying that.

But if I (as a white person) stepped into a bar where a lot of gun-toting AAs hung out and I went off on a racist rant, I would probably get hurt or killed. It would still be assault/murder on their part, but it also would have been incredibly stupid on my part. Same thing would happen to an AA in a redneck bar in the south. At some point, we have to stop thinking that Freedom of Speech allows us to be violence-inciting idiots and we need to take personal responsibility for our actions. [/quote]I disagree.  Freedom of speech should allow us to say dumb accidentally or purposefully offensive things.  That's what it's for.[/quote]NO. IT'S. NOT. [/quote]
The First Amendment protects us from having the government punish us for saying stupid or offensive things.  That does not mean we should say stupid or offensive things; only that it is even more dangerous for the government to have the power to decide what is stupid or offensive than it is for us to say those things.[/quote]

Exactly. Our freedom of speech is actually quite limited. Just like how the 2nd Amendment does not give everyone the right to all guns forever, the First Amendment does not give you the right to say whatever/whenever/wherever you want. The fact that some of you don't know this is scary. Those of you who constantly profess your love for the constitution are the same people who seem to have never even glanced at it. [/quote]

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