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What The Gun Debate Means for Free Speech

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 15, 2013

What's the 2nd amendment have to do with the 1st? Jim Sleeper, author and lecturer in political science at Yale University, argues in his recent writing that the debate over gun violence should also include a debate over violent speech and media.

 

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