Washington Post TOTALLY Misses the Point of SC ‘Journalism Registry’ Law…Or Does It?

By Robert Farago

“For political journalists, South Carolina was the center of the universe last week,” Callum Borchers [above] writes at washingtonpost.com. “The state hosted two presidential primary debates and trotted its governor into the national spotlight for a televised response to the president’s State of the Union address. But a Republican lawmaker there doesn’t think just anyone calling him or herself a journalist ought to be able to work in South Carolina. Only ‘responsible’ journalists — those who pay to be registered and vetted by the state — should be allowed to cover presidential politics or any other kind of news.” What an idiot . . .

Borchers — and other proponents of civilian disarmament — doesn’t even know when he’s being trolled. South Carolina Rep. Mike Pitts’ South Carolina Responsible Journalism Registry Law is a goof. He introduced the bill to make a point: the government has no more right to curtail Americans’ Second Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms than they a right to trample on journalists’ First Amendment right to free speech.

By taking the bill seriously, Borchers was punked. Or was he? His article links to The Post and Courier of Charleston. Which …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns