Fellow Bostonians: How many of us wished we had an assault weapon last night?

I don't know for sure, but I'm willing to bet if they had committed a crime against someone with a gun, they would be a felon and not able to own a firearm. Do you know if they have hurt family members?

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NOBODY is denying anyone to go to a target range to shoot guns. NOBODY.

Apart from it being a fairly brainless thing to do.
Has he got no TV or anything useful to do?

Skillful personal defense can be very "useful to do".

"Practice makes perfect."

Don't you know your Constitution? All rights are not unlimited, and that goes for 'PRE-EXISTING RIGHTS.' They can be amended.

Until that actually happens, thay remain intact.

These comments are seditious - a felony and treasonous . This kind of talk in and of itself should rule out a person and household from possessing guns!

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Sedition is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power. Treason is the violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or state, giving aid to enemies, or levying war against one's state. Sedition is encouraging one's fellow citizens to rebel against their state, whereas treason is actually betraying one's country by aiding and abetting another state. Sedition laws somewhat equate to terrorism and public order laws.

This Jefferson............

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

Thanks, I'm glad you agree with me WaterMan! Sedition is sedition, regardless of what you want to believe - to act upon seditionious actions is to become treasonious and to invoke revolution. I stand!

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. Franklin, Benjamin -

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/first+amendment

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that government may not prohibit speech that advocates illegal or subversive activity unless "such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action" (Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395U.S. 444, 89 S. Ct. 1827, 23 L. Ed. 2d 430 [1969]). Applying the Brandenburg test, the Court ruled that the government could not punish an anti-war protester who yelled, "[W]e'll take the ******* street later," because such speech "amounted to nothing more than advocacy of illegal action at some indefinite future time" (Hess v. Indiana, 414 U.S. 105, 94 S. Ct. 326, 38 L. Ed. 2d 303[1973]). Nor could the government punish someone who, in opposition to the draft during the Vietnam War, proclaimed, "f they ever make me carry a rifle, the first man I want in my sights is [the president of the United States]L.B.J." (Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705, 89 S. Ct. 1399, 22 L. Ed. 2d 664 [1969]). Such politically charged rhetoric, the Court held, was mere hyperbole and not a threat intended to be acted on at a definite point in time.