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FiveGoodMen

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12. Depends who you ask

Reply to Initech (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 04:49 PM

Dec 2017

I've had many HERE tell me that lying about WMDs and getting AT LEAST 100,000 civilians killed in a country that hadn't harmed us is just free speech and if I didn't hate the Bill of Rights, I'd know that.

How much worse is it to (indirectly) get 100,000 people murdered than to threaten murder?

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Death threats are forcing professors off campus [View all] PatrickforO Dec 2017 OP

And into this political climate some state legislatures have approved guns on campus... brush Dec 2017 #1

Itll get worse. mountain grammy Dec 2017 #2

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What part of threatening to murder someone is considered free speech? Initech Dec 2017 #3

Extremist mentalities always justify their OWN actions, Hortensis Dec 2017 #11

Depends who you ask FiveGoodMen Dec 2017 #12

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Driving Truth off-campus so it can be replaced with bucolic_frolic Dec 2017 #7

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