Is it possible that George Washington could have imagined Twitter?
If not, you shouldn’t be able to say what you want.
So goes something like the message from ABC’s The View.
On Tuesday, co-host Joy Behar reckoned it’s time to overhaul the First Amendment — or at least make some much-needed modification.
The Second’s due for a change, too, since Thomas Jefferson had no clue the future would feature futuristic firearms.
The segment began with Whoopi Goldberg’s mention of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stepping down.
Jack, she said, had fought “defamatory” speech on the social media staple.
Whoopi brought up bullying and Australia’s latest move against would-be trolls:
“Australia wants to go a step further, drafting a legal process for people who they feel have been defamed, bullied, or harassed, that would force companies to hand over the identities of the accused bully to the courts. Now, if we had a legal process like this, would it actually make people think twice about trolling or would people just find…a new way to troll?”
Sunny Hostin BelovedThe idea.
Jane Coaston (New York Times podcaster) was the guest host.
“My concern is always, like, if I’m on Twitter…and I start, you know, going after somebody who is supportive of something that I find abhorrent, am I a troll? Can they get my identify?”
For her part, Whoopi simply won’t read nasty messages aimed her way.
“[W]hy do we take your word for something you don’t know anything about — me? Why am I taking your word that I’m all these things when you don’t know me? I’m not looking at you.”
Joy quickly jumped in and waxed on about war words, weapons, and other topics.
“[Y]ou’re not reading. You’re smart not to. You know, when the Founding Fathers were busy with the amendments, the First and Second Amendments did not have AR-15s in there — weapons of war — and they didn’t have Twitter.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGd_E5cJwwc
As for her war comment, of course, she’s wrong.
They did, in fact, have weapons of war — “arms.”
Their rifles and other weaponry — serving citizens at home and potentially in battle — were the day’s war-suited weapons.
The blade can also be considered a weapon of war. This was true even though it has changed little over the years.
Folklore has it that the infamous KA–BAR knife, favored U.S. Marines, got its name from a fur trapper. He sent the company a message in which he claimed to have been attacked by a grizzly. However, he was able to use one their knives to “kill a-b’ar”. #FunFactFriday pic.twitter.com/hMsERfvSxi
— U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) September 3, 2021
As for the contemporary and commercially-available AR-15, it hasn’t been used in a war. Or the military.
As you probably know, most gun-related murders involve handguns.
Why do some on the Left vilify America’s most popular hunting rifle while glossing over those commonly used in crimes?
Perhaps there’s no emotion attached.
Television viewers seem to prefer their gut instincts over wasting 12 seconds searching online.
This is fitting considering that handguns were used to rock on The Rockford Files and slung on Gunsmoke, they don’t carry a lot of consternation-catalyzing cache.
You can also try something sinister. Eureka.
There are also boring looking wooden weapons that can do as much damage to your AR-15s.
The Ruger Mini-14 (top) is identical in function to the AR-15 (bottom) but isn’t as popular & is largely ignored by gun control advocates & policymakers. @GunsReporting looks at why the gun debate is obsessed with form & largely ignores function. | https://t.co/x967hDc5VO pic.twitter.com/HzdqKGVWPU
— KERA News (@keranews) November 27, 2019
And where the common narrative’s concerned, the fact that that damage is usually wreaked upon targets and game, from what I can tell, is neither here nor there.
As for the Constitution’s creators not possessing a smartphone and a penchant for disrespectful debate in 280 characters or less, Joy is clearly correct.
Even so, what might stand out most is the idea that those who gave birth to the nation weren’t smart enough to know guns or communication would ever improve.
Fortunately, good guys’ guns evolved just like ones bore by the bad.
Curiously, American laws prohibit the good from carrying things that the bad guys are allowed to.
Nonetheless, what’s the correction for the Founding Fathers’ flub?
Joy’s gestated it:
“[B]oth amendments, I think, need to be tweaked a little bit.”
It is important to learn about the AR-15 before you reach that conclusion.
Did that task get completed?
If I had to guess, I’d take a stab and say no.
But I won’t — to stab would be to use a weapon of war.
FBI data from 2019 shows more Americans killed by knives (1,476); personal weapons (hands/fists/feets) 600; and blunt objects (clubs/hammers, etc.The number of knives killed was 397, while the rifles were responsible for 364. The ratio of knives to firearms was 4:1. 🤔👇 pic.twitter.com/fMNhDkyKqf
— Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) April 1, 2021
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