As an aside, the original intent of free speech was to allow citizens to speak out against their government without fear of reprisal. Following this thought process led to the laws stated preventing certain types of speech from being 'free'.
Bringing up free speech only hurts the pro-gun crowd because if speech can be censored (within reason) without specifics being in the Constitution, guns can also be limited in the same manner. The catch with gun control is that you simply cannot fight the US military if the soldiers do as commanded. You let loose a few RPGs and they carpetbomb your town. It's not even a contest.
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