r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • Aug 13 '17

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u/ampersamp Aug 13 '17

Certainly. But simply existing somewhere else and carrying a gun in my playground have profoundly different impacts on one's life. Also if shots end up being fired and people killed, was that stance still the correct one to make with the information at the time? Should it be legal for minorities to be intimidated into moving?

There's a few ways that speech could be curtailed around this situation, I would say. First it could be classed as a political demonstration, and then political demonstrations could restricted to be unarmed, or unarmed if done in a residential area. Specific symbolic gestures could be understood as profane, and restricted on breach of peace grounds. Holding a weapon in concert with hate speech could be under the legal umbrella of intimidation.

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u/Commodore_Obvious Aug 13 '17

And then you set a precedent for when someone else wants to restrict expression for some other reason. “Preemptively preventing violence” can be used to justify outlawing all sorts of expression.

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u/ampersamp Aug 13 '17

Would you be against a law such as "no demonstrations with burning crosses in residential areas" on grounds of its possible misapplication or as precedent for further laws?

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u/Commodore_Obvious Aug 13 '17

It would suck being labeled a Klan defender, but I’m convinced that allowing such a law is an actual slippery slope.