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The First Amendment

Are there any examples of free speech that you believe fall under restrictions?


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You're first sentence doesn't match up with your second sentence. First you say then if no harm was done, it should not be a crime. Discharging your firearm in an attemptto harm someone doesn't actually harm them.

Discharging a firearm is a violation of the local ordinace in all likelyhood. Most likely also an infraction ie not a crime persay a cival violation. So no ordinace no infraction. I should have said more appropriately "cited".
 
Hate crime is new crime. It is used to extend punishments. That's the functional reality. You can not like reality, you can deny reality, but you cannot change reality. So make the choice.

True, it does extend punishments. But, I would says the purpose of hate crime laws is to prevent greater individual harm and to prevent greater harm to society.
 
Discharging a firearm is a violation of the local ordinace in all likelyhood. Most likely also an infraction ie not a crime persay a cival violation. So no ordinace no infraction. I should have said more appropriately "cited".

But, other than that, you don't see it as a crime if someone were to unload on someone but happened to miss?
 
But, other than that, you don't see it as a crime if someone were to unload on someone but happened to miss?

No. But if they got shot themselves in the process well, they earned it. :)
 
To me, freedom of speech will never prevail over common sense.
 
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