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Shooting people is obviously against freedom, should be illegal and is illegal.

You're insinuating that if freedom of speech laws in the US were less principled, those people wouldn't have died. But maybe if news outlets didn't report on mass shootings those people wouldn't have died too, should we prohibit news outlets from reporting these things?

It's not the fault of free speech that some mentally unstable person killed people, the same way it's not the fault of the journalists that report these tragedies.



It's not the fault of free speech that some mentally unstable person killed people

Assumes facts not in evidence


I think you need to prove that words killed, not the other way around. Freedon is the default.


I'm talking about the assumption of mental illness.




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