John Canuck
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The top editor [Dick Metcalf] of Guns & Ammo became the second employee of the venerable firearms magazine to lose his job after a column advocating gun control backfired, prompting rifle-toting readers to unload on the publication.
In his column entitled ?Let?s Talk Limits: Do certain firearm regulations really constitute infringement?,? Metcalf wrote that ?way too many? gun owners believe that any regulation of the right to bear arms is an infringement prohibited by the Second Amendment.
?The fact is, all constitutional rights are regulated, always have been, and need to be,? Metcalf wrote. ?Freedom of speech is regulated. You cannot falsely and deliberating shout, ?Fire!? in a crowded theater. Freedom of religion is regulated. A church cannot practice human sacrifice. Freedom of assembly is regulated.?
How does a numbskull like this get a job at a gun magazine? Nothing stops a person from screaming, at the top of their lungs, "fire" in a theater. If a riot ensues and people are trampled, the person will be charged according to whatever law prevents one from causing a riot. If a church, or anyone else for that matter, practices a human sacrifice, they will be charged under the appropriate murder statute. It's asinine to equate these situations, but, that's the game they play.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/09/sh ... backfires/