Democratic Congressman wants to ban threatening images.

This is insanity.

What happened was a tragedy, to be sure, but what is this going to do to help anything?

Wow, just wow, let's trample all over the 1st Amendment by censoring speech.

Unless I'm mistaken, speech whose intention is to incite violence is already not protected speech, so...

Unless I'm mistaken, speech whose intention is to incite violence is already not protected speech, so...

GabuEx

And crosshairs on a map don't incite violence. So there's no point to this bill.

May save lives, i agree with it

[QUOTE="GabuEx"]

Unless I'm mistaken, speech whose intention is to incite violence is already not protected speech, so...

airshocker

And crosshairs on a map don't incite violence. So there's no point to this bill.

It's pretty obvious what that thing is implying with an elbow and a wink.

Regardless, almost anything can incite violence in some people, so I agree, there is no point to this bill.

May save lives, i agree with it

Thunda_Monkey

Whose life is in danger when a crosshair is drawn on a map?

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May save lives, i agree with it

airshocker

Whose life is in danger when a crosshair is drawn on a map?

[QUOTE="Thunda_Monkey"]

May save lives, i agree with it

Whose life is in danger when a crosshair is drawn on a map?

I bet without those crosshairs on the map someone was shot at some point and therefor they were told to by the map.AutoPilotOn

Maybe we should just ban maps in general.

I mean, deaths happen ALL across them. They must be held accountable!

It's dumb, but good God there HAD to have been a better angle to approach this issue from than using "target" and crosshairs...

This is ridiculous. Maybe if people stopped living in their protective bubbles and put themselves out there, they'd realize that this is not a serious issue...

How incredibly silly.

However it goes a long way to realize free speech does not exist in the US.

I felt like that map is innappropriate, but I don't see the need to outright ban things.

The bill seems pointless to me. Right wing nut jobs are going to shoot people regardless of a cross hair map. Maniacc1

[QUOTE="Thunda_Monkey"]

May save lives, i agree with it

airshocker

Whose life is in danger when a crosshair is drawn on a map?

Well at least you're willing to say that they were crosshairs, considering that others have been attempting to claim that they were "surveyor's symbols". :P