Concerned citizens use the argument that guns have no place in a modern, civilized culture, and that the right to bear arms is an outdated remnant of Colonial times. However, if one were to look at all the facts objectively, they would see that the First Amendment is not only more dangerous, but more outdated as well. When this country's founding fathers envisioned a world with freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and freedom of religion, it took weeks for a letter to reach Philadelphia from New York. The people who would assemble were intellectuals fighting the tyranny of a king with the efforts of creating a democracy. Now people can deliver pornography and bomb-making techniques to each other from opposite sides of the world in seconds.
People can spew forth messages of hate and intolerance and be protected by the First Amendment.
When people assemble, as during Woodstock, the Dave Matthews Band concert and the Million Youth March, riots ensue. The press may have been partly responsible for Princess Diana's death. If the First Amendment did not exist, and everyone practiced the same religion, there would not have been the Jewish community center shooting. Children would not be able to listen to the lyrics of Marilyn Manson or play violent video games. People would not be angry with Clinton, because we would not know about his philandering.