Originally Posted By: sini
There are limitations on 1st Amendment - shouting fire in a crowded theater or lying under oath are couple examples.
But we don't gag each person walking into a theater to prevent them yelling "fire." Nor do we hook folks under oath up to lie detectors. We prosecute them afterwards for the crime. I think that's the biggest rub with most of these massacres. The perpetrator invariably kills himself or is killed by police (or gets declared mentally unfit to stand trial, whatever in the name of the giant spaghetti monster that means) and the public doesn't get to slake their blood lust/righteous indignation by watching the criminal stand trial on TV. So, lacking the means to explain an event they cannot comprehend, the media lashes out at something else they don't understand, the tool used.

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