A comedian re: Muskets and the 2nd Ammendment

[AlanM]

He rebuts Leftists opinion that the framers of the Constitution only meant muskets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... quUBWHU2_s

[MarcSpaz]

He's funny.

[jdonovan]

I always respond, that freedom of speech then only applies to hand written messages on parchment with a quill pen, or from your own voice when standing on an apple crate in the town square... and they get real quiet.

[trailrunner]

I always respond, that freedom of speech then only applies to hand written messages on parchment with a quill pen, or from your own voice when standing on an apple crate in the town square... and they get real quiet.

I've used that argument too.

I've also used the argument that if waiting periods are an acceptable infringement on our 2nd amendment rights, then a waiting period for the news media to publish a story would also be acceptable, unless it's for a sporting event. Nobody *needs* the news that quickly. Likewise background checks for reporters, too. Twitter accounts should be limited to 30 people, except in CA, NY, MD, and MA, where they should be limited to 10 followers. Nobody *needs* more followers than that. These reasonable restrictions are even more important today, in the current age of high-capacity internet bandwidths, which the founding fathers could never have dreamed of when they wrote the 1st amendment.

[Reverenddel]

Touche!