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Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US
physman_wiu writes "We all remember the recent incident of 13-year-old Megan Meier. Now legislation is set to be passed at least in Missouri (and possibly through Congress) that would make cyberbullying illegal. The new legislation (PDF) reads: 'Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.' Now, this seems like a great piece of legislation — until I get put in jail for some kid on WOW calling the Feds on me." Eugene Volokh is not impressed.
The Second Amendment is arcane, and it doesn't give private citizens the right to have guns for whatever purposes they want.
If by "shitting" on it, you mean, actually keeping it confined to something resembling what it was meant to do, then yes, we have been. There's a reason violent gun deaths here dwarf all of Europe combined, and it's not because gun control laws are too strict.
The Second Amendment defends the rights of the states to form militias, it's a collective state right, not an individual one