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by AdmiralAsshat 2312 days ago
First Amendment seems to mean whatever the hell we want it to mean, these days.

A group of gun's rights advocates marching in Virginia recently argued that not being allowed to brandish assault weapons at the capitol was violation of their "symbolic" speech.[0]

I'm just waiting for the point where someone tries to make the defense in court that shooting another person in the head was an exercise of their freedom of speech.

[0]https://wtop.com/virginia/2020/01/gun-groups-want-firearms-b...