Speaking of Toxic Messengers…

Are gun advertisements in FTC’s crosshairs? Critics decry ‘toxic’ messaging as firearm sales soar [More]

If tyrants don’t respect the Second, why should the First bother them any?

It figures this subversion originated with the monopoly of violence apparatchiks over at USA Today, a Gannett Publication…

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David Codrea is a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. View all posts by admin

2 thoughts on “Speaking of Toxic Messengers…”

Commercial speech is protected by the First Amendment. Of particular note is the 2001 SCOTUS decision in Lorillard Tobacco v. Reilly and the opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas and the 1996 Liquormart Inc. v. Rhode Island decision:

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/encyclopedia/case/28/commercial-speech
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/205/lorillard-tobacco-co-v-reilly
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/200/44-liquormart-inc-v-rhode-island

I suspect they are targeting firearm-related advertisement because gun sales are soaring, as if people who want to buy guns won’t be able to if they don’t know where to go or what to get. Or something.

The articles covering this always mention both (targeting ads and soaring sales), but I’ve not seen anyone put them together as one potentially causing the other.

I don’t think it will have the desired effect, though. The Streisand Effect is in full force; the more they try to shut down firearm advertising, the more public attention the effort draws, and the more people a) learn what and where to buy, and b) want to buy.

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