They didn't have the kinds of assembly that we have. The forums and the sit-ins and the Occupy movement. They didn't have the number of religions, cults, quasi-religions and terrorist cults posing as religions that we have. They didn't have the number of bloggers (more than 800,000!), the twitterers, the instant messengers or the 24-7 cable news cycle that we have. In short, the United States is a much different place than it was in the 18th century.

Isn't it time we said FUCK THE FIRST AMENDMENT and called on our congressional representatives to have a Constitutional Convention to alter, clarify, or just get rid of it? In fact, why stop there? So many of those Bill of Rights are just problematic in today's society. They come from a different age, a different time. Perhaps we should repeal them all.

Do it for the children, do it for society, do it for a Better, Safer, more Utopian AMERICA!

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You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here's why.

It's because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single victim of Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he'll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.

CNN's article says that if the body count "holds up", this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer's face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer's identity? None that I've seen yet. Because they don't sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you've just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.

You can help by forgetting you ever read this man's name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news.

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_{television does its best work in blacks and whites, rights and wrongs, ins and outs. Television isn't as good with subtlety, shades and open space.-joe blogs}

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