--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > 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. >
If gun control and advocating that a non-governmental entity not publishing a photograph are not "tentative steps" I don't know what is.
