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1. Virtually no one has any issue limiting the *1st* amendment for the sake of other constitutional goals

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Original post)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 08:27 PM

Sep 10

Defamation, inciting to riot, obscenity, and threats are all accepted limitations on free speech.

I don't know if anyone who truly is a free speech "absolutist", even if they call themselves that.

But 2nd amendment absolutists uniquely insist on zero compromise after having twisted it into an individual right.

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