• ZMonster@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    So much this. If we aren’t going to restrict possession of firearms in any way then we can’t use that as a basis for intent. Just replace, “had a gun”, with literally any other constitutionally protected right and this argument falls flat on its face.

    “He was using words, we will never know if he was about to run into a theater and yell ‘fire’…”