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What about a textbook, detailing how to make explosives? beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 21/12/2010 04:13:02 PM
Does free speech really require that any 14 year-old who wants to can find detialed instructions on how to make bombs or make mustard gas out of house hold cleaning supplies? Sometimes public saftey has to be considered as well.



Because those exist. They HAVE to, for people who are learning how to make explosvies. Hell, you can find plans on making a basic nuclear reactor without a ton of effort.


I feel like this happens all the time. People go, "Oh, of course we should have free speech, we're AMERICA, damn it! But... let's keep it within reason, we don't need THAT kind of speech."

And I get what you're saying, I really do- The fact that my neighbor could go to Home Depot, buy some innocuous supplies, and make some chlorine gas is fairly chilling. But he could also buy a gun and kill a ton of people, or wait outside my front door with a really heavy rock.

I amuse myself.
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This should make for an interesting debate Dark Knight - 21/12/2010 02:19:39 PM 875 Views
Free speech. An easy way for me to tell is replace the topic with the word "murder" beetnemesis - 21/12/2010 02:33:17 PM 508 Views
I don't know. Isn't it illegal to write a how to for making a bomb? Rebekah - 21/12/2010 02:51:34 PM 531 Views
Not in the US, not necessarily anyway Isaac - 21/12/2010 03:31:10 PM 507 Views
Incitement to racial hatred isn't illegal in the US, I believe... beetnemesis - 21/12/2010 04:02:58 PM 498 Views
Depends on what's in the book Isaac - 21/12/2010 03:01:53 PM 580 Views
I think they are on slippery slope but a fairly firm part up near the top random thoughts - 21/12/2010 03:46:58 PM 543 Views
What about a textbook, detailing how to make explosives? beetnemesis - 21/12/2010 04:13:02 PM 594 Views
do you want him to be able to pick up a book givining him detailed instructions on how to kill you random thoughts - 21/12/2010 05:31:09 PM 502 Views
My point was that you CAN buy books like that beetnemesis - 21/12/2010 06:40:59 PM 506 Views
First Amendment free speech protections were written to provide just that. Joel - 22/12/2010 06:56:28 AM 487 Views
As is the case so often of late, impossible to tell as there isn't enough information. Legolas - 21/12/2010 06:33:29 PM 511 Views
A how to guide for pedophiles? Dragonsoul - 21/12/2010 08:25:20 PM 476 Views
Personally, I'd like to see him castrated, but aria - 22/12/2010 12:50:30 AM 508 Views
The guy is gross and disgusting of course, but what is in the book? everynametaken - 22/12/2010 01:21:13 AM 517 Views
Um. I don't see the point of the book. Palatine - 22/12/2010 05:27:43 AM 490 Views
I actually find the sheriff there far more disturbing Joel - 22/12/2010 06:49:33 AM 523 Views
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