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To: cuban leaf
Verbal threats to kill or do bodily harm to someone.

That's an incomplete answer to the question.

People say stupid things in the heat of the moment all the time. My question was, who is going to determine what speech is actionable, and what is not?

Honestly. Where is the demarcation line between a temporary bout of anger or grief, and real psychosis, and who is responsible to legally determine this? Your local PD?

Are you willing to enter a new era where anything you say, can and will be used against you, whether you've committed a crime or not?

140 posted on 08/14/2019 9:18:04 AM PDT by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

I’ll do one final clarification of my position in this thread by quoting myself from another thread:

I have yet to see a red flag rule that I would support. However, I can imagine something along those lines being a good thing if it was purely temporary - in the same way police can hold you in jail for a short time without bringing charges.


142 posted on 08/14/2019 9:37:26 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: Windflier

“Are you willing to enter a new era where anything you say, can and will be used against you, whether you’ve committed a crime or not?”

We’re more or less already there willing or not.


143 posted on 08/14/2019 12:26:24 PM PDT by A Voice (As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the end times.)
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