Re: Riding a bike a protection and in general

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:39:46 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On 6/16/2025 2:49 PM, Beej Jorgensen wrote:

In article <102pecp$1ngsl$1@dont-email.me>,
Mark J cleary  <mcleary08@comcast.net> wrote:

To pull the trigger with a real gun that would take a set of
circumstances that would almost non-existent at least in my general
living area.

 
That might be, but the Second Amendment and DC v Heller say that people
can carry for self-defense or for any reason, in general. So people can
do what they want in this regard. And the First Amendment says you're
free to post your disagreement without fear of prosecution. :)

>
yeah.....about that.....
>
https://firstamendmentwatch.org/deep-dive/trump-2-0-executive-power-and-the-first-amendment/#Freedom-of-Speech-and-Censorship

I was going to point that out, but proof doesn't seem to
change people's minds anymore.
It's all over the news here. And ALL our news is right wing.
About "freedom of speech" being extinct in the US. And warnings to
travelers about what they say when they're in America can put them in
jail.
Nobody has a right to an opinion. It was like that in Brazil
in the 60's --> 80's.

They say it was like that when Hitler first became a public
figure. And the more he censured, the more he persecuted minorities,
the more he took away freedom the more powerful he got. Because his
supporters were too stupid to see what was happening.
[]'s

Cue posts that reports about censoring books, speeches,
teachers, etc being "exaggerated by left wing commie press" and
"censorship has happened before, and we survived".

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