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Public nuisance laws already on the books would likely do the trick. To use your example, it is already perfectly legal to own a bullhorn and even to carry it a
by debatem1 7y ago
Public nuisance laws already on the books would likely do the trick. To use your example, it is already perfectly legal to own a bullhorn and even to carry it around downtown, but if I start setting it off outside a restaurant I'm going for a stay with the police pretty quickly.
Those laws are for sure not without theoretical constitutional issues, but in practice work well enough to keep the lid on.
- mbrumlow 7y agoFairly sure YouTube is full of videos doing exactly what you described and no police stopped in. Simply put, targeted protesting...
- debatem1 7y agoEven the idiots on YouTube are mostly smart enough to pack it in once they get too much attention. An installed device does not have that luxury-- nor, under your argument, should it need it. If your claim is that you could stand outside a restaurant blowing a bullhorn at patrons and passers-by for long enough to get caught doing it and that there would be no repercussions, I think you're mad.