How Politicians Are Using Alleged “Restrictions” On The First Amendment To Argue For Restricting The Second Amendment

Thursday, December 13, 2018
By Paul Martin

Keep this in mind that next time criminal politicians try to sell the snake oil of First Amendment restrictions in order to infringe on the rights they are supposed to protect under the Second Amendment.

TIM BROWN
FREEDOMOUTPOST.COM
DECEMBER 13, 2018

I have heard it numerous times from mostly Democrat politicians on how we restrict and regulate the freedom of speech protected under the First Amendment to make a point that freedom of speech is not unlimited. They do this to make their point that they can thus install all sorts of gun confiscation “laws,” and yes, that is what they are because, in the end, those laws seek to separate you from your guns, with the same claim that the right to keep and bear arms is also not unlimited. I’m calling their bluff, and Rep. Ted Lieu’s (D-CA) recent claim gives me that opportunity.

First, Rep. Lieu said while he is restricted from regulating both individual speech, as well as freedom of the press, he desires to do both. Check out the video and commentary here.

You may recall several people making comments that the Amendments to the Constitution are not “absolute.”

Take Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), for example. In addressing the Senate on the DISCLOSE Act, he said:

“I believe there ought to be limits because the First Amendment is not absolute. No amendment is absolute. You can’t scream ‘fire’ falsely in a crowded theater. We have libel laws. We have anti-pornography laws. All of those are limits on the First Amendment. Well, what could be more important than the wellspring of our democracy? And certain limits on First Amendment rights that if left unfettered, destroy the equality — any semblance of equality in our democracy — of course would be allowed by the Constitution.”

“And the new theorists on the Supreme Court who don’t believe that, I am not sure where their motivation comes from, but they are just so wrong. They are just so wrong.”

No, and he can’t actually point to where he is authorized to “fetter” those rights because it is not allowed by the Constitution.

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