Do We Need to Take the Second Amendment Away to Protect the First? TL;DR Short answer: No. Repealing the Second Amendment is neither necessary nor realistic to safeguard free speech and assembly. The real work is to regulate guns in ways our Constitution already permits (especially in āsensitive placesā like…
By an independent reporter. Published September 12, 2025. Executive summary The fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025, poured accelerant on Americaās already-combustible debate over guns, speech, and political violence. Within hours, the incident became a Rorschach test: the right decried a…

