It's the Constitution, not anarchy

In light of the shootings at the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Joe the Dumber felt compelled to write an open letter to the parents of the victims in which he proclaimed "...your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights."

Leaving aside a) our collective misfortune of having to share a planet with such a colossal asshole, and b) why on earth any publication would feel it necessary to feature the ramblings of an idiot, quite frankly, yes, yes they do.

Amendment First:

Should you carry signs up and down the streets of your town calling for the deaths of children, and people took heed and actually began killing children, you would end up in prison and your right to free speech would come to an end.

Should you start up a newspaper in which you called for the deaths of children, and people read your newspaper and began killing children, you would go to prison and your right to a free press would most emphantically cease.

Should you start a religion that called for the ritual sacrifice of children, and your followers sacrificed children, you would be sent to prison and your right to practice your religion freely would be over.

Should you deign to peacefully assemble and in the process you and your brethren worked yourselves into a frenzy and a riot broke out and children were trampled to death, you would get a lengthy prison sentence and your right to peacefully assemble would be terminated.

So yes, at least in any sane and civilized society (which America is becoming less and less of by the minute) dead children will always trump Constitutional "rights."

Peace,
emaycee