Gun control or First Amendment rights...

Just which is it??

In the wake of the Giffords shooting the right wants to have it both ways.. they want to both fuel the fire and put weapons in the hands of the lunatics that will wield them without being held accountable for having been involved. Yet, there is precedent in the United States for prosecuting people who incite violence and hate speech (Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire U.S Supreme Court Decision in 1942). Not all speech is protected by the First Amendment and if you are publicly calling people to violence then there should be some accountability when violence occurs. Perhaps this particular guy never heard Sarah Palin’s call to arms... or perhaps he did but she certainly doesn’t seem to care whether she might have had some culpability in this at all. Whereas Keith Olberman immediately admitted that he once said something that might have been interpreted as a call to violence and recanted it immediately. 

Will the right change their rhetoric? No. 

Will they change their right to bear arms policies? no.

And will the left ask them to????