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Rhode Island Bill Would Impose Fee For Accessing Online Porn (providencejournal.com)
If a recently introduced bill passes the General Assembly this session, Rhode Island residents will have to pay a $20 fee to access sexually explicit content online. The bill, introduced by Sen. Frank Ciccone (D-Providence) and Sen. Hanna Gallo (D-Cranston), would require internet providers to digitally block "sexual content and patently offensive material." Consumers could then deactivate that block for a fee of $20. The Providence Journal reports: Each quarter the internet providers would give the money made from the deactivation fees to the state's general treasurer, who would forward the money to the attorney general to fund the operations of the Council on Human Trafficking, according to the bill's language. If online distributors of sexual content do not comply with the filter, the attorney general or a consumer could file a civil suit of up to $500 for each piece of content reported, but not blocked, according to the bill.
Other countries like Venezuela, and Australia removed guns from the plebes... and mysteriously the mass shootings stopped. Gee whiz.
Strange, it looks like the number of homicides rose steadily after the gun ban in Venezuela.
Oh look, Maduro is giving guns to his supporters
Here's an example of responsible government gun usage
And another
It's a good thing that they have a ban in Venezuela, it keeps candidates in elections from getting shot
The Gun ban is working so well with petty crime too.
Even if the 2nd were interpreted to only apply to well regulated militias that would not mean nobody else would be allowed to own a gun.
The Bill of Rights isn't a short list of what we are allowed to do. They are specific limitations on what the government cannot do.
That's why there are phrases like "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", "shall not be violated" sprinkled throughout.