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Re: I doubt the framers had any idea
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I've heard the "it's completely different now" argument from many people trying to finesse the Second Amendment.

But by this logic, the framers also had no idea how powerful the press would be, either.

After all, when the Constitution was written, hand-operated flatbed presses were the order of the day, and there were about 103 newspapers and periodicals in the entire United States. Circulations were typically under 1000.

Today an unscrupulous media can spread misinformation across an entire planet, using technologies that the framers didn't even dream of. Lives are destroyed, governments propped up or wrecked, and citizens fed horseshit when they need the truth.

So if we're going to start thinking along these lines, maybe it's time to revisit the First Amendment too?

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